Senior Caseworker – Bilingual, French

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Senior Caseworker managing patient caseload for reimbursement support in Canada. Bilingual role assisting with financial options for patients without insurance and managing team activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with assigned patients’ to identify various reimbursement coverage options and investigate financial options for those without insurance.
  • Assist with the coaching and mentoring of existing team members.
  • Manage a patient caseload larger than their caseworker counterparts.
  • Be a reimbursement expert in assigned caseload territory.
  • Provides other caseworker(s) assistance with complex reimbursement, insurance, benefit investigation, special authorization, and appeal requests.
  • Participate in special projects as assigned by the Program Manager.
  • Provide daily support to Associate Program Manager(s)
  • Assist management with various reports and program related tasks.
  • Work with management to develop program protocol and SOP for Caseworker role.
  • With management, lead training of new caseworkers, including but not limited to shadowing & call monitoring.
  • Regularly Interacts with insurance companies, physician' offices, and healthcare professionals to provide optimal reimbursement support
  • Assists the patient with Clinic and Pharmacy selections, and schedules patient appointments
  • Generates drug orders ensuring that required information is faxed to the pharmacy, and related parties
  • Adherence to the general company processes.
  • Telephone Support : Implementing call-centre programs including the provision of patient, healthcare professional and funding bodies with telephone support.
  • Current assistance lines focus on: Funding and access issues, including private, public and special access programs; Compliance programs
  • Administer and adhere to case-management protocols, including clinical monitoring, data collection, on-going patient follow-up, compliance, therapy disruption/discontinuation monitoring, adverse event reporting and liaison with primary healthcare providers;
  • Implementing pharmaceutical and biotechnology related market research initiatives with physicians, patients, pharmacists or other allied health professionals;
  • All patient programs are based on casework methods and include a significant amount of out-bound calls.
  • Document each activity in program specific database.
  • Participate and attend on-going refresher training and in specialized training courses for specific products or programs as deemed appropriate by the manager.
  • Clear communication to manager, pod, and program trained colleagues regarding the management of cases during foreseen absences.
  • Responsible to report all Adverse Events to the assigned units/departments

Requirements:

  • Minimum University Degree in a related field or equivalent
  • A minimum of two (2) years experience in customer service; experience in medical, pharmaceutical and/or insurance industry is an asset
  • Bilingual in French and English: written and verbal is required
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
  • Flexibility in working shifts (hours of operation are 8 am - 8pm)
  • Ability to apply critical thinking skills in order to solution problems
  • A Minimum of 2 years experience working for a patient support program
  • Experience working in a call center environment an asset
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills: written and verbal including effective phone etiquette to diverse audiences

Benefits:

  • medical, dental, and vision care
  • backup dependent care
  • adoption assistance
  • infertility coverage
  • family building support
  • behavioral health solutions
  • paid parental leave
  • paid caregiver leave
  • training programs
  • professional development resources
  • mentorship programs
  • employee resource groups
  • volunteer activities