Patient Navigator

🕒 June 27

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Valeris

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1001 - 5000 employees

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 B2B

Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare • B2B

Valeris is a fully integrated life sciences commercialization partner formed by the merger of PharmaCord and Mercalis. The company provides comprehensive solutions across the healthcare value chain to help life sciences companies bring products to market and improve patient access and adherence. Valeris offers data and strategic insights, patient support and access programs, and healthcare provider engagement tools, serving over 500 life sciences customers and supporting millions of patients. Headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina and Jeffersonville, Indiana, Valeris focuses on enabling commercialization and patient-centric services for pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with patients by demonstrating proactive communication, delivering timely and accurate services, and showing a strong commitment to patient well-being. • Ensure all interactions and relationship management practices comply with relevant healthcare laws and regulations. • Demonstrate prior experience working with pharmacy benefit products and patients, or in immunology practices, to better understand patient needs and concerns. • Conduct program welcome calls to patients, engaging them effectively and explaining available services and resources for their support. • Utilize motivational interviewing techniques to actively involve patients in goal setting and achieving their healthcare objectives. • Perform post Benefits Investigation calls to patients, clearly explaining coverage options to enhance patient understanding. • Effectively handle all client inquiries that cannot be resolved through standard reporting processes. • Address patient inquiries in accordance with applicable business rules, providing accurate and helpful information. • Articulate complex reimbursement and billing information in a clear and concise manner to ensure patients comprehend their coverage benefits and financial responsibilities. • Handle inbound calls as per the program-approved Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). • Exhibit excellent customer service skills, even in a fast-paced environment, and de-escalate any challenging situations in a professional and appropriate manner. • Triage patients to appropriate internal or external resources, depending on their needs and requirements. • Ensure proper documentation and recording of patient enrollment into the program, following established business rules. • Provide patients with comprehensive information and education about products, including the course of treatment, insurance coverage benefits, anticipated out-of-pocket costs, potential financial assistance resources, and ongoing treatment support. • Proactively manage assigned cases and tasks to maintain service levels and deliver excellent customer service to patients. • Empower and inspire patients to take charge of their therapy plan as prescribed by their healthcare provider. • Leverage electronic tools to identify benefits and payer coverage, conducting manual benefit investigations when necessary. • Identify and communicate patients' plan benefit coverage, including any prior authorization, appeal, tier exception, or formulary exclusion requirements. • Utilize electronic resources to obtain benefit coverage outcomes, and if needed, conduct outbound calls to payers and healthcare providers for follow-up. • Support adherence services through the coordination of nurse follow-up, as applicable to the program. • Identify and recommend peer support resources for patients to enhance their treatment experience. • Coordinate the shipment of products through patient assistance programs and/or bridge programs from the PharmaCord pharmacy. • Proactively communicate the need for re-verification of prior authorization or re-enrollment for patient assistance programs. • Report adverse events, product complaints, special situation reports, and medical inquiries in accordance with established SOPs and Business Rules. • Document all activities within the PharmaCord Lynk system to maintain accurate and up-to-date records, adhering to business requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience required; completion of a high school diploma or GED is required • Customer service and healthcare industry experience strongly preferred • Ability to work an 8.5-hour shift between 8 am to 9 pm, Monday to Friday required • Bi-lingual in English and Spanish or Chinese/Mandarin is a plus • Commitment to the mission of care coordination • Passionate, trustworthy, and empathetic when working with patients. • Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to speak concisely to patients • Flexible and adaptable in response to changing patient and healthcare providers’ needs • Professional telephone etiquette • Self-awareness of your own emotions and the potential impact on others • Basic computer knowledge • Ability to multitask effectively • Ability to recognize emotions and their effects • Sureness about self-worth and capabilities • Manage disruptive impulses • Maintain standards of honesty and integrity • Takes responsibility for performance • Adapts and handles change with flexibility • Is innovative and open to new ideas • Achievement driven; constantly striving to improve or to meet a standard of excellence • Aligns with the goals of the group or organization • Ready to take initiative and act on opportunities • Be optimistic and pursue goals persistently despite obstacles and setbacks • Be service oriented and anticipate, recognize and meet the needs of others, including patients and care partners • Positive attitude!

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including HSA- and FSA-eligible options, with Valeris contributing toward premium costs • Additional health support, including telehealth and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services • Company match on Health Savings Account contributions • Free Basic Life and AD&D coverage equal to your annual earnings, with a minimum of $50,000 and a maximum of $300,000 • Company-paid Short-Term Disability coverage, with the option to purchase Long-Term Disability • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with 100% match on the first 5% you contribute, with immediate vesting • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Sick Leave to support work-life balance • Team members receive nine paid holidays plus two floating holidays • Opportunities for advancement in a company that supports personal and professional growth • A challenging, stimulating work environment that encourages new ideas • Work for a company that values diversity and makes deliberate efforts to create an inclusive workplace • A mission-driven, inclusive culture where your work makes a meaningful impact