Pharmacy Buyer

About the role

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Responsibilities

• Checks medication, IV fluid, and supply stock daily, and orders accordingly based on buying and delivery schedules.
• Places orders for main pharmacy, pharmacy satellite areas and ancillary departments.
• Maintains and monitors wholesaler electronic ordering system to create and place orders daily.
• Uses split billing software daily to comply with 340b program requirements and ensure medications are ordered on appropriate accounts.
• Actively participates in inventory management and assigns par levels in collaboration with pharmacy managers.
• Maintains stock shelves with current identification name and order number.
• Ensures all new medications have been added to necessary computer systems.
• Manages medication backorders and recalls. Meets with managers to review on a regular basis.
• Processes product recalls and ensures all recalled products are removed and returned in a timely manner.
• Works with pharmacy managers to evaluate order quantities and ordering information of all routine and special request (non-formulary) items.
• Maintains purchase logs.
• Reviews and reconciles borrow and loan transactions with outside facilities and maintains list of approved and restricted facilities.
• Maintains pricing tool and responds to requests for billing audit information
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.
• Prepares and labels chemotherapy agents