Senior Manager, Health Economics & Market Access

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

 

About the role:
The Senior Manager, HEMA - will be responsible for health policy and reimbursement initiatives in support of a $3B+ market-leading Boston Scientific Business. This role involves cross-functional and global collaboration to execute on market access initiatives and facilitate appropriate reimbursement for existing and emerging technologies.

 
Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop, implement, and manage health economics and reimbursement activities, for the Structural Hearth Valves Therapies Business, including TAVR, SENTINEL, TMVR, and novel first-to-market therapies. 
• Lead execution of market access and reimbursement strategies in the US and support implementation in global markets.
• Serve as SHV lead in the review and analysis of annual CMS rulemaking for IPPS, OPPS, ASC and PFS. Collaborate with HEMA Analysts to prepare internal and external communications. Collaborate with Corporate HEMA team to develop comments in response to topics of importance to the SHV with strategic guidance from HEMA Directors to positively influence our business.
• Monitor and health policy developments that impact reimbursement of BSC products and educate key stakeholders. 
• Manage tactical activities required to achieve health economics and market access strategic objectives (e.g. coding applications, clinical trial reimbursement, data analytics).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the development and communication of economic value messages to support product adoption.
• Create and develop HEMA materials to support the SHV business.
• Identify opportunities for HEMA data analytics (e.g. market assessments, forecasting, pricing strategies and RWE analyses)
• Provide general reimbursement support to sales team and key external stakeholders (e.g., hospitals, clinicians, investigator sites).
• Deliver internal training to sales, marketing, clinical, regulatory, and legal colleagues to increase awareness and understanding of health economics and reimbursement competencies and their role in supporting a product’s success.

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in health policy, health economics, healthcare administration, health services research, or similar discipline 
• 6+ years of experience in the medical industry, including experience supporting reimbursement strategies for a medical device manufacturer.
• Strong understanding of US health care policy and payment systems, including hospital inpatient and outpatient, and physician reimbursement. 
• Experience with health policy development and Federal rule making processes (e.g. CMS).
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite).
• Domestic travel estimated at 20%, including overnight travel.
• Working knowledge of answering health economic questions using large datasets.
• Understanding of hospital financial systems and management practices.
• Understand and interpretate clinical and economic evidence.
• Ability to work independently and effectively with minimal supervision.

 

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree such as an MS, MPH, MBA, MPH, MHA in health policy, health economics, healthcare administration, health services research, or similar discipline 
• Cardiology industry experience
• Familiar with global market access requirements.
• Experience with Health Technology Assessment (HTA).
• Experience with new technology reimbursement pathways, particularly device.   
   

 

 

Requisition ID: 573838

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