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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fixed Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm (Fixed-Hybrid)
Posted Date
02/11/2025
Salary Range: $85.87 - 100.58 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
22175

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Play a key role in the delivery of world-class patient care. Make a significant contribution to an award-winning health system. Leverage your expertise to make a life-changing difference. At UCLA Health, you can do all this and more.


Due to the teams' continued growth and expansion, we are looking to add talented Pharmacists to our team. In this key role, you will review Ambulatory Medical Specialty & Heme/Onc infusion orders for medical necessity, formulary preferences and if needed coordinate with the prescribing provider to update orders per protocol prior to authorization submission.  You will serve as the primary ambulatory pharmacy resource for information regarding infusion payor formularies and denial reasons. You will support authorization coordinators and prescribing providers with complex infusion medication authorization cases.  You will maintain and review patient medication profiles, review physician medication orders and patients’ insurance benefits. You will interact with healthcare professionals and providers to help decrease authorization turnaround time and improve the patient experience. 

 

Schedule: Monday – Friday 8-5pm (Fixed-Hybrid)

Hourly Salary Range: $85.87 - $100.58 (Union represented, step-based salary depending on years of experience)

Bargaining Unit: HX-UPTE


Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a dedicated clinical professional with:

  • Pharm D. degree and current CA Pharmacy license (required)
  • Minimum of 1 year of practice experience in Oncology (required)
  • Prior Infusion Experience (preferred)
  • Prior Medical Benefit Authorization Experience (strongly preferred)
  • Epic experience (preferred)
  • BCOP (preferred)
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills.
  • Knowledge of and ability to perform age specific and disease specific pharmacokinetic calculations.

 

UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and dozens of primary care practices, specialty practices, urgent care centers and other ancillary locations throughout metro Los Angeles. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles’ trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If you’re looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, you can at UCLA Health.



As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.