Pharmacy Technician - Specialty Pharmacy

Trinity Health • Grand Rapids, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Trinity Health Pharmacy Solutions – Grand Rapids provides specialty pharmacy care for patients with rare and chronic health conditions which include but are not limited to Hepatitis C, HIV, Multiple Sclerosis, Movement Disorders, Asthma, Pulmonary conditions, Inflammatory conditions, and Cancer. Specialty Pharmacy technicians work in the Call Center and in the prescription filling process. All colleagues will be cross training to ensure top-notch patient care and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Minimum: High School education or equivalent.
• Minimum: Pharmacy Technician License (issued by Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Bureau of Professional Licensing)
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred: Completion of formal pharmacy technician training program.
• Preferred: Certified Pharmacy Technician by Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB)
• Preferred: 2+ years pharmacy work experience in outpatient pharmacy setting; billing experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepares, packages, and distributes medication orders per physician/pharmacist request, or prearranged work assignment in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations and established policies, procedures, or protocols.
• Contributes to effective and quality operation of the department.
• Maintains logs, records, and other required documentation, files documentation.
• Completes third party adjudication for prescription claims.
• Utilizes computerized prescription dispensing system to complete the following aspect of filling patient prescriptions: Create patient profiles, Prescription data input, Third party/insurance processing, Prescription refilling.
• Incoming and outbound calls with patients, provider teams and third parties.
• Insurance prior authorizations; collects necessary information for submission.
• Order packaging and scheduling deliveries.
• Works Epic Multi-Step Order Transmittal work queue.
• Perform simple pharmaceutical calculations including, but not limited to, days’ supply and weight-based dosing calculations.
• Collect payments using point-of-sale system.
• Participate in the training, education, precepting, and evaluation of pharmacy students and/or residents as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• The colleague will be responsible for maintaining high quality internet to allow for a successful home-work environment if the hybrid schedule is granted.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED