This Position is for a Field Reimbursement Specialist with a work location in Jackson, MS.

What you will be doing

Play a vital role in helping patients gain access to life changing therapies! From oral medications to biosimilars to critical cancer treatments to infusions, associates, with their passion for patients, represent these therapies providing education, coverage, and access solutions to healthcare personnel.

Field Reimbursement Specialists (FRSs) will plan and engage with customers, leveraging client approved resources, to educate on access and reimbursement topics relevant to assigned client's product. The FRS will manage daily activities that support appropriate patient access to client's products in the provider offices and work as a liaison to other patient assistance and reimbursement support services offered by clients. Teams travel weekly, sometimes requiring overnight travel, to healthcare offices within a designated territory, using their knowledge of coverage, patient assistance, and health policy to educate office staff and break through access issues to ultimately help patients.

As an FRS, a typical day might include:

Educate provider office staff and practice managers on logistics needed to support client product, including infrastructure needed to support in-office administration including buy and bill and monitoring of product, and important coverage and payer policy changes within assigned territories. 

Educate provider office staff with understanding the payers' coverage management strategies for product, including coding, billing, formulary, prior authorization, and appeal processes. 

Probe to understand office processes and ability to discern root causes of access or reimbursement issues

Deliver interactive educational presentations at various provider sites of service

Provide information on relevant reimbursement topics related to our client's products based on client's approval

Perform other duties as assigned

What your background should look like

Ability to conduct field-based reimbursement and access support, education, and consultation to key account customers and cross-functional partners.

Understands the dynamics of Specialty Pharmacy vs. Specialty Distribution

Broad understanding of the physician buy-and-bill model vs. assignment of benefits to alternate sites of care.

Experience in revenue cycle, buy and bill (including billing with miscellaneous J-code), formulary, benefit investigations, prior authorization, coding, and appeals processes

Deep understanding of medical and pharmacy benefits/policies.

Live within a reasonable commuting distance of a major airport in the listed location and be able to travel within a territory that includes but may not be limited to Jackson, MS and Shreveport, LA

Nice to have:

High School Diploma or GED required

Bachelor's degree or specific Practice Management experience preferred.

Project management skills

Experience with extensive travel

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran