Pharmacy Tech - Enhanced Care Pharmacy at Hennepin Healthcare, MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus

Pharmacy Tech - Enhanced Care Pharmacy at Hennepin Healthcare in MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus. Est. up to $60k. Apply with swipeandhired.

Workdays: Monday - Friday and every 3rd weekend Shift(s): Mostly Days, occasional evening shift Shift Length: 8 hours Location: In-Person Other: Every 3 rd Saturday and every 6 th Sunday in our discharge pharmacy. This is pharmacy technician position for the Enhanced Care Pharmacy located in the Blue Building of the Hennepin Healthcare campus. This pharmacy exclusively serves patients who receive care at the Positive Care Clinic. The pharmacy is open from 8 am to 5 pm every weekday, with most shifts between 8:30 am and 5 pm, and has been recently renovated to include a filling robot and additional space for patient care and prescription processing. The position does include a every 3 rd weekend component (Every 3 rd Saturday and every 6 th Sunday) in our discharge pharmacy. Purpose of this position: Under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, performs a variety of technical and clerical duties allowable by law, while maintaining a favorable image of the pharmacy within the hospital and in the community. RESPONSIBILITIES: Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies Prepackages, prepares, labels, and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist Maintains cash registers, credit card machines, and reporting for cash transactions Prepares daily deposits for the cashier’s office Bills and credits patient medications Stocks inventory in Pharmacy Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled Files prescriptions and reports Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion Enters outpatient prescriptions Obtains and records patient drug histories Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders, and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations, and symbols Maintains a working knowledge of general chemical and physical properties of drugs Compounding medications as per Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations Responsible for safe and careful handling of chemotherapeutic medications Coordinates ordering and delivery of medications, supplies, and equipment to patients and clinical areas as requested Completes intake process for mail service, specialty, transplant, and limited distribution pharmacy patients including new patient enrollment, insurance verification, and medication refill and delivery schedule Documents in the EMR or other database applicable patient interactions according to specialty pharmacy practices Performs patient tracking, processing of patient specialty medication claims, customer service, issue resolution and/or escalation Requests and follows up on refill requests, processes Medicare and transplant claims and works on high level adjudicated claims Performs other responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to: back up phone coverage, data collection, reporting, process improvement, and maintenance of patient education materials