Utilization Management - Specialty Medical Prior Authorization - LPN

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Must have Prior Authorization experience Will work from home office Position Summary: You will provide processing and communication of specialty medication prior authorization (PA) requests reviewed by the Aetna Specialty Medical Prior Authorization department. Reporting to the Pharmacy Operations Manager, you will work with physician office staff and customer service, admissions and pharmacy operations departments to communicate prior authorization status. You will also oversee fax processing and provide telephone call assistance for prescriber office staff, pharmacies and members based on program criteria.

Responsibilities include answering inbound phone calls, processing cases, loading authorizations, and making follow-up phone calls. Maintaining complete and accurate, documentation of all necessary information is necessary and will involve computer system data entry, data management, and reporting. Review criteria-based prior authorizations following policy and procedure Provide on-call after hours nurse availability for urgent PA requests Provide internal nurse support to the PA team and member services department Refer cases not meeting clinical criteria to the Pharmacist and MD team(s). Shift priorities while exhibiting a high level of urgency with all calls and assignments. Excellent verbal and written skills. You will work with pharmacists, other clinical colleagues, healthcare professionals and members. Follow all prior authorization procedures to guarantee an accurate process on each prior authorization. Complete other PA assignments as delegated by the PA leadership team.