Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Coordinator

Summary

The Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Coordinator provides a supportive role in pharmacy compliance, specifically core elements of ambulatory and specialty pharmacy including but not limited to standards/governance, training, monitoring, and investigations. This position also supports the Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager in the evaluation of compliance related to pharmacy practice in the community pharmacy setting, specialty clinics, and medication home delivery. Additionally, this position will work in coordination with the Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager, legal, pharmacy operations, and clinical teams to assist in the review of policies and procedures and sustain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

Job Description:

Baptist Health is looking for an Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Coordinator to join our team at our Central Pharmacy in LaGrange, KY. This will be a hybrid position that will have time worked onsite and at home.

• Engages in personal development to stay updated with pharmacy trends related to role and practice setting.
• Supports the development of compliance strategy and provides ongoing monitoring to minimize risk for the health system.
• Assists in data collection and process review to gather information used to collaborate with legal counsel and pharmacy leadership to draft and update system community and specialty pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures.
• Partners with Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager to monitor and analyze reporting to validate compliance to third party payer contracts, regulations, and accreditation standards.
• Assists in the monitoring of upcoming changes to regulations and accreditation standards that impact pharmacy practice.
• Helps to create communication plans, implement process changes, and develop training to support compliance-related operational changes.
• Assists in the development and management of pharmacy quality metrics for performance improvement of teams.
• Assists with onsite pharmacy audits, patient management audits, and investigations to ensure compliance with regulations, accreditation standards, and contractual requirements for third party payers.
• Assists with controlled substance surveillance and inventory corrections audits.
• Works in partnership with Ambulatory and Specialty Pharmacy leadership to prepare for and successfully navigate accreditation surveys.

Minimum Education and Training

• Registration with Kentucky Board of Pharmacy, and Indiana Board of Pharmacy upon hire
• Nationally certified as a pharmacy technician
• Completion of 340B University or Apexus certification within 6 months of hire

Minimum Experience

• At least 2 years related experience in retail and/or specialty pharmacy
• Experience in pharmacy compliance preferred
• Knowledge of state and federal pharmacy statutes and regulations preferred
• Experience with specialty pharmacy accreditation standards preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and other pharmacy related applications preferred

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

About Us

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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