Clinical Pharmacist - Abdominal Transplant

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans seeks a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to work with physicians, care managers, and clinical staff to improve patient outcomes while managing costs. The pharmacist provides therapeutic assessments and disease management for assigned practices.

You will lead clinical services, collaborate on guidelines, participate in committees, and ensure regulatory compliance including JCAHO, CMS, ACHC/URAC. Strong communication and education across teams are essential.

Responsibilities

• Directs and initiates development, implementation and maintenance of clinical pharmacy services.
• Provides clinical consultation to Medical Staff and other health care providers with cost-effective therapeutic alternatives.
• Documents activities/interventions in medical records and communicates with prescribers.
• Fosters teamwork and ensures delivery of high-quality patient care.
• Performs staff duties as needed.
• Collaborates with health care providers to resolve concerns promptly.
• Provides ongoing education and timely drug information to physicians, nursing, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals by developing educational materials and in-services as needed.
• Facilitates the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, pathways, protocols, formulary changes, medication use evaluations, and other appropriate drug information reports as approved by committee(s).
• Participates on clinical committees including pharmacy and therapeutics and serves as a liaison to other healthcare practitioners.
• Demonstrates awareness of documenting information in the medical record, JCAHO and CMS standards, and State Board of Pharmacy requirements, and understands departmental and hospital policies and health-system initiatives.
• Supports ACHC and URAC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Standards and participates in audits and accreditation readiness activities.
• Leads and supports completion of prior authorizations and appeals and coordinates with providers, payers and patient access teams.
• Ensures prescriptions align with 340B definitions and collaborates with 340B operations to document workflows for compliance outcomes.

Job description

Your job is more than a job. This is a specialist position. The Clinical Pharmacist Senior is responsible for working with physicians, care managers, and other clinical staff, as part of a medical care team focusing on patient outcomes, while maintaining cost. The Clinical Pharmacist Senior provides patients and providers with therapeutic assessments and selected disease management, for assigned practices, working towards improving patient and practice outcomes. The Clinical Pharmacist Senior also performs other duties consistent with the job classification as required.

Patient Care Activities:

• Directs and initiates development, implementation and maintenance of clinical pharmacy services.
• Provides clinical consultation to the Medical Staff and other health care providers within the appropriate team or unit(s), suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives as needed.
• Communicates and documents all activities/interventions (i.e., medication order changes/clarifications with the prescriber, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, adverse drug reactions and errors etc.).
• Fosters teamwork and takes responsibility to ensure delivery of high-quality patient care.
• Performs staff duties as needed.

Collaboration and Education of Health Care Providers:

• Collaborates with all health care providers to ensure timely resolution of concerns and questions.
• Provides ongoing education and timely drug information to physicians, nursing, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals by developing educational materials and competencies and providing in-services as needed.

Development of Clinical Guidelines and Protocols:

• Facilitates the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, pathways, protocols, formulary changes, medication use evaluations, and any other appropriate drug information reports as approved by the appropriate committee(s).

Committee Membership and Awareness of Regulatory Standards:

• Actively participates on clinical committees including pharmacy and therapeutics committee and other appointed committees as needed.
• Acts as a liaison to other healthcare practitioners.
• Fosters a good working relationship with physicians, medical staff, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstrates awareness and understanding of documenting information in the medical record, JCAHO and CMS standards, and State Board of Pharmacy requirements.
• Demonstrates awareness and understanding of departmental and hospital policies, and health-system initiatives.

Specialty Pharmacy: Accreditation Support

• Ensures compliance with ACHC and URAC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Standards and participates in audit, quality improvement projects and ongoing accreditation readiness activities.

Prior Authorization Navigation

• Lead and support completion of prior authorizations and appeals.
• Collaborate with providers, payers and patient access teams and maintain current knowledge of payer policies and formulary restrictions.

340B Capture and Compliance

• Ensure prescriptions align with 340B patient definition, eligible providers and covered entity sites; partners with 340b operations team and document clinical workflows that directly impact 340B compliance outcomes.