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University of Miami Sr. Pharmacy Buyer - Charge Analyst in Miami, Florida
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Sr. Buyer – Charge Analyst
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Buyer – Charge Analyst will direct procurement activities, supply management and charging/billing of pharmaceuticals. The individual in this role will be crucial to ensuring efficient procurement processes, accurate billing practices and helping ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Pharmacy Business Analyst Duties
Serve as a liaison to Finance, Central Billing, Revenue Integrity, Compliance, Patient Services, Materials Management, EPIC for the University of Miami , which includes hospitals and out-patient infusion satellites on any pharmacy related issues to ensure accurate billing practices
Assists with medication formulary list and charge description maintenance, which include timely drug addition/deletion, coding and pricing updates
Completes Pharmacy Work Queue’s on a daily basis to ensure work queues issues, edits, bill holds, charge discrepancies or any drug charge issues are reviewed and resolved as necessary
Assist Hospital Finance in providing treatment estimates as requested
Assist Pharmacy administration with drug budget, medication-utilization management, contact compliance through the GPO and 340b programs
The Sr. Buyer - Analyst maintains timely communication with hospital administration regarding all price changes, including but not limited to deletions and additions to ensure accuracy of the hospitals charge master files
Assists in validation of new drug code for electronic medical records
Pharmacy Administrative/ Purchasing Duties
Recommends and prepares justification to request and defend projected requirements for changes in purchase order allotments as a result of changed formulary or inventory needs.
Assists when needed in the direct procurement activities, supply management, shipping and receiving of all pharmaceutical drugs, intravenous solutions and supplies for hospital
Transmits Interdepartmental Requisitions (IDR) and submit to accounts payable (A.P) on a monthly basis for processing
Immediately contacts vendors, manufacturers, sales representatives if there are any delivery or pricing discrepancies as well as product or device defects that may cause health hazard. Assures that all communications are documented and are followed-up until credit, return or resolution is achieved.
Assists the Pharmacy Buyer and Assistant Buyer when necessary to receive, check-in and store all incoming merchandise. Ultimately responsible for insuring inventory accuracy and accountability.
Assists in the review of invoices for accuracy with proof of delivery, reconciling records with accounting for timely payment
Assist the 340b team in making sure the institution is compliant with all 340b program guidelines and purchasing appropriateness
Assists as necessary the inventory for top 100 drug for end of the month dispense & purchase reconciliationTop of Form
This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties orresponsibilities as necessary.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.
UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.
Patient safety is a top priority. As a result, during the Influenza ("the flu") season (September through April), the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine requires all employees who provide ongoing services to patients, work in a location (all Hospitals and clinics) where patient care is provided, or work in patient care or clinical care areas, to have an annual influenza vaccination. Failure to meet this requirement will result in rescinding or termination of employment.
The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Click here (https://www.hr.miami.edu/careers/eo-ada/index.html) for additional information.
Job Status:
Full time
Employee Type:
Staff
Pay Grade:
H8
The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.
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The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.
The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022.
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