About Our Company

We’re a physician-led, patient-centric network committed to simplifying health care and bringing a more connected kind of care.

Our primary, multispecialty, and urgent care providers serve millions of patients in traditional practices, patients' homes and virtually through VillageMD and our operating companies Village Medical, Village Medical at Home, Summit Health, CityMD, and Starling Physicians.

When you join our team, you become part of a compassionate community of people who work hard every day to make health care better for all. We are innovating value-based care and leveraging integrated applications, population insights and staffing expertise to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, connected care services that provide better outcomes at a reduced total cost of care.

Please Note: We will only contact candidates regarding your applications from one of the following domains: @summithealth.com, @citymd.net, @villagemd.com, @villagemedical.com, @westmedgroup.com, @starlingphysicians.com, or @bmctotalcare.com.

Job Description

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.