Field Reimbursement - Patient Access Associate Director - Northeast Remote

MedStar Health; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MedStar Health is looking for a Patient Access Leader to provide US coverage and reimbursement expertise for their diagnostic products. The successful candidate will be responsible for educating customers on access services and overcoming reimbursement challenges while collaborating across departments. This field-based role requires a strategic thinker with strong communication skills and experience in healthcare reimbursement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in coverage, coding, payment, and policy in diagnostics or biotech.
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships at high levels within accounts.
• Ability to thrive in a cross-functional working environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary contact for patient access inquiries and support reimbursement for Lantheus products.
• Provide education on Lantheus Link services and reimbursement strategies.
• Collaborate across functions to address reimbursement issues.

Skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Business acumen

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Education

BS/BA in Business, Marketing, Economics, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Description

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Canada, and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio.

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone's health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.

Summary of Role:

The field-based role is responsible for providing US coverage, coding, and payment expertise to support the Lantheus Holdings portfolio. Acting as the primary contact for all patient access related inquiries, the Patient Access Leader will support seamless and timely access and reimbursement for prescribed Lantheus products. The individual in this role will have responsibility for educating customers on the services and support offered by Lantheus Link, as well as educating customers on payer coverage, coding and payment policies affecting the Lantheus portfolio and ensuring access for patients prescribed Lantheus products. The successful candidate will have a proven track-record assisting customers in facilitating patient access, overcoming complex reimbursement challenges, is an excellent cross functional collaborator and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• This position will report to the Director, Patient Access


• Serve as subject matter expert to prevent and address access and reimbursement issues.


• Provide proactive education, reimbursement support and problem-solving strategies to identified customers in defined geographical territory.


• Educate customers on Lantheus Link services and offerings.


• Support all Lantheus Link patient referrals from submission to scan completion.


• Identify, develop, and execute territory business plan opportunities by focusing on appropriate positioning and messaging of Lantheus products and services to colleagues and customers


• Manage and coordinate resolution of reimbursement issues by collaborating with internal teams, prescribing office and non-hospital imaging centers


• Collaborate and coordinate across functions (Sales, Marketing, and Medical Affairs) to achieve business goals.

Skills, Experience and Education:

• BS/BA in Business, Marketing, Economics, or related field; advance degree strongly preferred.


• 5+ years of coverage, coding, payment, and policy experience within the diagnostics, biotech, and/or pharmaceutical industry


• Preferred experience working in a hub model.


• Preferred access and reimbursement experience specifically in radiopharmaceuticals, imaging, or diagnostics


• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the US payer market, experience with both commercial and public payers and understands the process for approving treatments and imaging agents within the payer community.


• Ability to thrive in a cross-functional working environment.


• Successful decision-making, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills.


• Demonstrated track record of strategic impact in defining and executing complex customer experience roadmaps while driving for innovative results.


• Demonstrated ability to develop credible relationships at high levels within accounts.


• Possesses strong business acumen negotiation and presentation skills.


• Superb written and verbal communication skills


• Field-based role; must be a self-starter with ability to work independently and organize own work without continuous direct supervision.


• Ability to travel (60% +)

Core Values:

The ideal candidate will embody Lantheus core values:

• Let people be their best


• Respect one another and act as one


• Learn, adapt, and win


• Know someone's health is in our hands


• Own the solution and make it happen

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