Pharmacist

About the role

AnewHealth is one of the nation’s leading pharmacy care management companies specializing in managing the complex, chronic needs of patients. We provide a suite of solutions including comprehensive pharmacy services, full-service pharmacy benefit management, and specialized support services for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a point of contact for patients and their families, other pharmacists, clients, and healthcare providers to address medication-related problems, health issues, and answer questions about pharmacotherapy needs, medication dispensing, and suggestions.
• Explains care plan options, the use, side effects, and contraindications of medications dispensed, either verbally and/or via written records stored within proprietary software.
• Ensures that patient care decisions and actions, as well as coding/billing, are properly documented using proprietary software system.
• Ensures accurate, efficient, timely, and compliant medication distribution and fulfillment for patients using proprietary software.
• Plans, implements, and maintains procedures for assessing, compounding, packaging, and labeling medications according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
• Oversees Pharmacy Technicians to ensure appropriate medication reconciliation, physician order entry, inventory management, medication storage and security conditions, and medication labelling and packaging as well as compliance to company policies and procedures and regulatory guidelines.
• Provides timely review, preparation/compounding, and final approval for prescription orders and dispensed medications ensuring the correct drug, dosage form, directions, quantity, days' supply, number of refills, and packaging/labelling, including ancillary warnings, is entered into the appropriate patient profile, and dispensed to the correct patient.
• Works to ensure proper and compliant billing and record keeping of medications dispensed and shipped.
• Uses professional judgment to provide timely, accurate, and appropriate pharmaceutical care, assessing new medication requests and refills, making recommendations to care providers to enhance patient outcomes and/or safety as needed in relation to care plans, changes, issues, and education.
• Ensures compliance to state and federal laws and applicable rules and regulations as well as internal policies and procedures required for pharmacy practice. Reports and works to rectify or prevent any incidents of QAs, HIPAA violations, Fraud, Waste and Abuse or other problems or violations.
• Embody AnewHealth's Core Values in all communications and interactions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate from a pharmacy program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) or a program outside the U.S. that qualifies the individual to practice in the jurisdiction.
• A current, active license/registration in good standing with the state board of pharmacy where practice will occur.
• Experience: 2+ years of experience required in pharmacy distribution and packaging, with at least some exposure to geriatrics and/or chronic care management. Experience or strong interest in clinical pharmacogenomics is preferred.