Pharmacy Quality Analyst

UHS; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Loan Forgiveness Program

Challenging and rewarding work

Competitive Compensation & Generous PT

Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision

401(K) with company match

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Prominence Health, a value-based care organization within Universal Health Services (UHS), is seeking a Pharmacy Quality Analyst. The role focuses on monitoring and improving pharmacy operations, CMS compliance, and PBM performance to benefit members, providers, and partners.

You will work with Pharmacy, Operations, Compliance, Customer Service, and PBM teams to identify issues, analyze data, and implement sustainable corrective actions that enhance efficiency and patient experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis and auditing in healthcare settings.
• Knowledge of CMS Part D regulations and Medicare Advantage requirements.
• Understanding PBM operations, claims adjudication, prior authorization, and formulary administration.
• Strong communication and technical writing skills for project background and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, audit, and improve pharmacy-related operations across Prominence Health and PBM partner.
• Identify operational breakdowns, compliance risks, service gaps, and inefficiencies affecting members and providers.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance regulatory compliance and customer experience.
• Develop reports and dashboards to inform stakeholders and drive corrective actions.

Job description

Responsibilities

Prominence Health is a value-based care organization bridging the gap between affiliated health systems and independent providers, building trust and collaboration between the two. Prominence Health creates value for populations and providers to strengthen integrated partnership, advance market opportunities, and improve outcomes for our patients and members. Founded in 1993, Prominence Health started as a health maintenance organization (HMO) and was acquired by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) in 2014. Prominence Health serves members, physicians, and health systems across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Accountable Care Organizations, and commercial payer partnerships. Prominence Health is committed to transforming healthcare delivery by improving health outcomes while controlling costs and enhancing the patient experience.

Learn more at: https://prominence-health.com/

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the VP of Health Services, the Pharmacy Quality Analyst is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, auditing, and improving pharmacy-related operational performance across Prominence Health and its Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) partner. This position serves as a key resource for identifying operational breakdowns, compliance risks, service gaps, and process inefficiencies that impact members, providers, pharmacies and brokers.

The Pharmacy Quality Analyst utilizes data analysis, operational audits, CMS compliance reviews, performance monitoring, and root cause methodologies to identify trends, investigate issues, and recommend sustainable corrective actions. The role supports operational excellence by ensuring pharmacy services, claim processing, prior authorization functions, formulary administration, customer service, and other PBM-related activities are delivered accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with CMS, Medicare Advantage, and contractual requirements.

This position works closely with Pharmacy, Operations, Health Services, Compliance, Customer Service, and PBM partners to support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance regulatory compliance, operational effectiveness, and overall customer experience.

Benefit Highlights:

• Loan Forgiveness Program
• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries! More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services:

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com

Qualifications

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, Pharmacy, Business Administration, Public Health, Complaince, Data Analytics, or related field.
• Current and valid state licensure as a pharmacy technician is preferred.
• 3 or more years of operational experience in a retail or hospital pharmacy, PBM, managed care, or related healthcare organization
• Knowledge of CMS Part D regulations, Medicare Advantage requirements, and audit methodologies
• Working understanding of PBM operations, pharmacy claims adjudication, prior authorization processes, formulary administration, and member service operations.
• Proficient computer skills: Health Plan Management System (HPMS), Smartsheet, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and database software.
• Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge to recognize the existence of problems or potential problems and identify additional research to be undertaken or assistance in the following areas: internal audit standards, procedures and techniques, management principles and deviations from ethical business practices, and fundamentals of business management.
• Demonstrated ability to research, analyze and interpret state/federal regulations related to health insurance and healthcare.
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop reports, documents and spreadsheets.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and with technical writing in a way that effectively conveys project background, objectives, activities, evaluations, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Decisive and exercises good judgment under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain effective collaborative working relationships with staff.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Resourceful, detail-oriented, and able to assimilate and analyze a wide variety of information, often working under deadline pressure with a variety of levels of staff.
• Simultaneous action at varying stages-initiation, follow through, and completion-on a number of different projects.
• Strict adherence of rules and regulations for confidentiality and compliance.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.