Field Reimbursement Manager, Dermatology - (Youngstown OH) - Patient Engagement & Customer Solution (PECS)

The Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) is responsible for serving as the primary field-based lead for education, assistance, and issue resolution with healthcare providers (HCPs), and their office staff, with respect to patient access to J&J Immunology therapies. This role involves investing time (up to 50%) on-site with HCPs, assessing their education needs and facilitating collaboration with various stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Educate HCPs on product coverage, prior authorizations and appeals, reimbursement processes, claims submissions, procedures, and coding requirements of payer organizations (local payers, government payers, etc.) for core and launch products.
• Collaborate with field support team members such as sales representatives and key account managers and serve as reimbursement expert for the local team.
• Act with a sense of urgency to address critical access and affordability issues for patients.
• Partner with managed care colleagues to understand current policies and potential future changes.
• Conduct field-based reimbursement and access support, education and creative problem-solving aligned to FRM Rules of Engagement.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with customers in all assigned Immunology accounts.
• Manage territory logistics, routing, and account business planning.
• Maintain and grow knowledge of national, regional, local, and account market dynamics including coverage and coding requirements.
• Grow the knowledge of hub and specialty distribution channels to improve practice and patient support needs.
• Collaborate with internal J&J departments such as marketing, sales, medical science, SCG, IBG, HCC, and PECS.
• Serve as subject matter expert regarding education and insights on access and affordability solutions across multiple payer types and plans (i.e., Medicare, Medicaid Managed Care, Commercial).
• Execute business in accordance with the highest ethical, legal, and compliance standards, including timely and successful completion of all required training.

Market Access Expertise

• Extensive knowledge of medication access channels (i.e., pharmacy and medical benefits including buy & bill and/or assignment of benefit (AOB) across multiple sites of care.
• Remains current on and anticipates changes in product coverage and access knowledge, marketplace conditions, and stakeholder practices to deliver the most effective delivery of approved materials.
• Understands and adapts to the changing healthcare ecosystem to customize resourcing and messaging to HCPs and HCP staff.