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Job Description
Position Summary:
To ensure overall quality of medication dispensing procedures of agents dispensed in the SMG Dispensary. The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for assisting the pharmacist in obtaining prior authorizations and co-pay financial assistance for patients from multiple foundations to facilitate processing prescriptions from the physician dispensary.
Essential Job functions:
The Oncology Physician Dispensary Pharmacy Technician will be expected to demonstrate ability to perform the following:

• Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.
• Receives prescriptions and inputs into pharmacy database
• Adds insurance and co-pay information to patient’s profile
• Initiates prior authorizations for prescriptions in-house and prescriptions sent to specialty pharmacies (fax, phone, CoverMyMeds)
• Look at prescribed medication vs. indication for drug to ensure it matches intent of approval
• Initiate prior authorization by phone, fax, CoverMyMeds (this includes having all supporting documentation to complete the prior authorization)
• Specify if the authorization needs to be URGENT or not and submit
• Follow up on prior authorization within 24 hours, and have the Pharmacist re-transmit in QS/1 to determine if it will result in a paid claim
• Document prior authorization approval and dates into QS/1 to prepare for when to submit a new prior authorization request for patients
• Assist patients with financial assistance applications and renewals, including free drug manufacturer programs
• Keep track of all Open/Closed Foundations on a daily basis
• Enroll patients into foundation assistance (via pharmacy/physician portals or by paper application)
• Keep a record of all active patients on financial assistance
• Receives patient’s household income and number of people in household for required eligibility of financial income
• Renews the patient’s application at time of ended balance, or end of grant timeframe
• Updates price uploads from Oncology Supply into QS/1
• Maintains inventory in QS/1
• Ordering of drugs and supplies
• Runs reports for appropriate daily logs needed to be signed by pharmacist
• Maintains files of prescriptions in order of date processed, including refill logs
• Audits prescriptions on a weekly basis
• Maintains signatures from patients picking up their prescriptions
• Maintains Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse guidelines and procedures
• Collects payments of copays from patients
• Properly handle and dispose of hazardous drugs and waste materials following OSHA and NIOSH guidelines.
• Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for missing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
• Conduct routine medication inventories including monitoring for drugs expiring, and assist with inventory control of medications in the dispensary.
• Assist in ordering supplies and medication. Receive and restock medications.
• Maintain any necessary QA logs, including (but not limited to) temperature logs, waste logs, expired and destroyed medication logs, and others.
• Participate in training and orientation of new employees as needed.
• Comply with the Summit Medical Group incident reporting policy and procedures.
• Adhere to all OSHA and Summit Medical Group training and accomplishments as required per policy.
• Provide other job duties as assigned.
• Report issues and concerns to supervising pharmacist and manager in a timely manner.

Education, Certification, Computer and Training Requirements:

• Batchelor’s Degree
• New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Technician registration
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) with PTCB
• Minimum 5 years of retail experience or other applicable pharmacy experience
• Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing
• Standard Office Equipment (Phone, Fax, Copy Machine, Scanner, Email/Voice Mail)
• Standard Office Technology in a Window based environment
• BLS Certification
• Valid License

Benefits*

• A friendly and fast-paced environment working with passionate people
  
• Outstanding growth opportunities
  
• Time Off
  
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  
• Short/Long Term Disability, HSA, and Life Insurance
  
• 401K plan with company matching contribution
  
• Cash Bonus Programs
  
• Recognition and rewards programs to recognize successful teams
  
• Other Perks & Discounts
  
• Commuter and parking discount program to help you save (using pretax dollars)
  

• Full Time Benefit Eligible Employees Only
  

Equal Opportunity Employer
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