Specialist, Insurance II

About the Company

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience—and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

About the Role

The Insurance Specialist II acts as the primary point of contact for Health Care Providers (HCPs) and patients when addressing complicated patient access challenges. This position will be a subject matter expert in insurance, prior authorizations, best-in-class customer service, and alternate funding options. The role addresses issues and concerns to provide HCPs and patients with accurate explanations of patients’ medical and/or pharmacy benefits, financial assistance, and access questions. Additionally, this position enables the productivity of the broader access team by building, maintaining, and providing access to insurance intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise and best-in-class customer service for all inbound and outbound customer calls to drive first call resolution.
• Provide insurance coverage, verification details, prior authorization statuses, and alternate funding options for existing and newly launched products.
• Provide offices with current plan forms, portals, and websites for prior authorizations and appeal submissions.
• Clearly communicate and educate customers on results of investigations.
• Investigate and problem solve for patients experiencing escalated issues such as disadvantaged or complex access, savings card/copay card challenges, or non-preferred formulary issues. Where necessary, complete a benefit investigation, contact the HCP and/or patient, or potentially the filling pharmacy or payor.
• Quickly learn and execute business process and system changes for all drugs and channel sources as applicable.
• Maintain an understanding of current business procedures, deviations, and case processing for all brands and channel sources to support the Insurance Specialist I role as needed.
• Document information in the appropriate system of record and formats.
• Accurately communicate insurance details to HCPs and patients via phone, electronic communication methods, and fax, as per established policies and procedures.
• Identify potential Adverse Event situations for reporting to Pharmacovigilance ensuring AbbVie meets FDA regulations.
• Support changing business priorities by being flexible in executing or overseeing completion of specific tasks to support patients, products, or services for all current and new products.
• Work cross-functionally to identify and share opportunities for process and productivity improvements.
• Liaise between healthcare providers, insurance companies, AbbVie Patient Access Support field representatives, Ambassadors, filling pharmacies, and patients to administer the Patient Support Service programs.
• Educate healthcare providers, AbbVie Patient Access Support field representatives, filling pharmacies, and patients on access processes specific to their patient's insurance plan.
• Meet or exceed department standards relative to performance metrics.
• Maintain a work environment that upholds privacy standards required by law and AbbVie policy.
• Act as a resource for the Training department including providing support for training curriculum and new hires.
• Provide side-by-side coaching and assistance for Insurance Specialist Level 1s.
• Successfully complete role-based training requirements, including passing certifications and competency assessments prior to the conclusion of the training period.
• Understand and comply with all required training, including adherence to federal, state, and local laws, SPII policies and guidelines, and the policies and procedures of AbbVie Access Support and AbbVie.
• Perform additional tasks, activities, and projects as deemed necessary by management.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required. Degree preferred.
• 2-4 years of work experience in a healthcare or reimbursement setting; previous experience in a call center environment, healthcare office, or specialty pharmacy preferred.
• Understanding and knowledge of commercial and government pharmacy and medical insurance programs, billing, alternate funding resources, reimbursement processes, prior authorization and appeal filings, and specialty pharmacy operations preferred.
• Experience and knowledge in Medicare Part D, Medicaid and alternate funding resources, private payers, pharmacy benefits, and medical benefits preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and participate within a team, manage multiple priorities, and meet associated timelines while maintaining accuracy.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Ability to maintain a positive service image at all times, even when dealing with challenging issues and unsatisfied customers.
• Demonstrated strong, accurate technical skills. Must be detail-oriented.
• Proven organizational and problem-solving skills, elevating to management when appropriate.
• Skilled with the use of the Microsoft Office suite and the ability to use and effectively learn and navigate other computer systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Eligibility to participate in short-term incentive programs.