Pharmacy Refill Technician

Pharmacy Refill Technician

Requirements

• strong interpersonal communication skills
• strong phone skills
• highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word
• able to quickly learn other programs and able to extract relevant information
• strong organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Always show kindness and compassion while providing knowledgeable and courteous assistance to patients, providers and pharmacy team members.
• Make assigned outbound patient refill phone calls and complete the patient refill requests in a timely manner.
• Answer, resolve and triage inbound inquiries appropriately.
• Clarify prescription orders with pharmacist and/or clinician as appropriate.
• Proactively coordinate medication refills including data entry and ensuring correct days supply is entered for all fills.
• Following through with claim adjudication and troubleshooting and reject codes.
• Partnering with pharmacy to ensure proper in-stock of medications.
• Identify medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication.
• Identify supplies necessary for select medications such sharps containers, needles/syringes, alcohol swabs, Band-Aids.
• Properly discontinuing patients off service when appropriate.
• Documenting work appropriately across all systems.
• Manage, organize, and update relevant data using database applications.
• Other duties that facilitate patient access to medications as assigned
• Apply observations and recommendations to operational issues, increased productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
• Identify trends, resolve problems, recommend improvements, implement change.
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives.
• Act as a value-added business partner to stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Protect organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain updated knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining networks; participating in professional organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Nationally certified as a CPhT or equivalent is strongly preferred but not required
• Preferred: 5-8 years of experience as a Pharmacy Technician
• Experience working with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals (preferably in a medical clinic) is a plus