Patient Care Advocate Remote (Pennsylvania Only)
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Job ID 1794810BR
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Job Summary:
The Patient Care Advocate provides new and existing patients with the best possible patient experience in relation to their prescriptions, clinical services, billing inquiries, feedback and suggestions. As the first line of contact to patients and stakeholders, the patient care advocate will set the tone for how our company and services are experienced.
Job Responsibilities:
- Receives inbound calls and performs outbound calls to patients or physician''s offices regarding orders for medications, pharmacy services and any other non-clinical inquiries.
- Adds or updates insurance and pharma information in patient''s record, or collect insurance information and alert appropriate teams to update the patient''s account.
- Creates patient activities as a reminder for the following tasks including but not limited to follow-up calls for patients, to initiate discharge of services, to contact a patient''s doctor office, to mail a letter to a patient.
- Completes client and/or pharma-specific duties to satisfy the needs and expectations of customers.
- Works collaboratively on disease-focused teams to provide best-in-class customer service.
- Connects patients with pharmacists for counseling and clinical inquiries as required.
- Completes all additional special handling duties as assigned including but not limited to drug shipment notifications and Adverse Drug Event Reports.
- Escalates calls to clinicians, insurance verification teams, specialized teams as required.
- May work on special projects and/or programs, provide bi-lingual support and be cross-trained in other departments including but not limited to specialized, support, and new patient/enrollment teams as required.
- Provides expertise in specialized pharma programs and subject matter expertise with complex disease states and patient care.
- Coordinates all activities related to Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategies (REMS) compliance.
About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Basic Qualifications
- High School/GED
- Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (written and verbal). Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate in a diplomatic and confidential manner.
- Basic level PC skills, MS Windows, MS Office Suite and/or other similar operating/software programs (for example: start up and shut down computer, use mouse to point and click, start and close programs, switch between programs, save files, print documents and/or access information on-line).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience providing customer service in a healthcare, specialty pharmacy, PBM, call center setting or other related industry including but not limited to adherence, quality, After Call Work (ACW), etc.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (such as MS Word, MS Excel, etc.)
- Proficient computer skills with ability to learn proprietary company software; experience working with multiple systems.
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
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Adverse Events, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Call Centers, Clinical Data Collection, Communication Skills, Computer Mouse Hardware, Computer Skills, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Support/Service, Disease, Futures, Geography, Healthcare, Healthcare Providers, Insurance, Interpersonal Skills, Medical Office, Medical Records, Medications, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Word, Multilingual, Patient Care, Patient Follow-up, Pharmacy, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Quality Metrics, Retail, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Secondary School, Startup
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Walgreen Co
Founded over a century ago in 1901, we have a rich and colorful history of continuous improvement and innovation at Walgreens. From inventing the world’s first chocolate malted milkshake to the creation of one of the most popular and sophisticated mobile applications in retail shopping today, we have transformed ourselves into a leader within the retail and drug industry.
Walgreens, one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., the first global pharmacy-led, health well being enterprise.
At Walgreens you'll find a team positively energized by the unique talents, ideas, experiences and aspirations of every individual. In other words, you can be your authentic self in our stores, offices and other workplaces, and be comfortable and confident that what matters most here is doing your best to make health and well-being within reach for everyone on a daily basis.
Walgreens has a proud legacy of valuing diversity and fostering inclusion more than 100 years-strong, and we're still living that commitment. We intend to be recognized as a “Next Practices” company for diversity and inclusion – one whose cultures, people, perspectives and workplaces reflect the current and future customers we serve while delivering superior business performance.
Walgreens has over 9,500 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Company Size:
10,000 employees or more
Industry:
Retail
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