Pharmacy Technician, Utilization Management

This position will be located in our Irving, TX office 5 days a week.

About The Role

The Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) – Utilization Management is a member of the RightwayRx Operations team. This role will assist UM leadership in delivering on our UM strategy and actively work UM cases.

Our pharmacy benefit management (PBM) offering represents an important growth area for Rightway. Helping clients better manage pharmacy spend to make drugs more affordable for their employees and dependents is critical to their business sustainability. RightwayRx is responsible for designing, building and operating a new-to-the-world PBM model base on our core tenets: fairness & transparency, unlocking the supply chain, supporting the physician-patient relationship, and utilizing navigation to empower consumers

What You’ll Do

• Support all lines of business via facilitating the process for utilization management requests for coverage, entering authorizations into the claims platform, and facilitating member and provider communications
• Provides support to members enrolled in specialty management programs, including coordinating any needed prior authorization with the UM team, the fulfillment of the prescription with the specialty pharmacy partner, enrollment in patient assistance programs, and billing questions.
• Coordinate with Pharmacy technicians, Pharmacists, and/or Medical Directors on UM activities
• Make outbound calls to provider offices to obtain clinical information missing from UM submitted cases
• Ensure cases are reviewed in accordance with State and/or Federal guidelines including turnaround time requirements
• Participate in the quality review and inter-rater reliability processes
• Provider call center: answer prescriber inquiries about the status UM requests
• Ensures regulatory and privacy standards are consistently met.
  
  

Who You Are

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 1-2 years experience in a pharmacy technician role within a PBM, pharmacy department of a health plan, or similar managed care setting. Or 1-2 years experience working in a mail order or specialty pharmacy
• Active Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
• Detail-oriented, critical thinker, empathetic, ability to dig deep in understanding an issue to get to true root cause and resolution, desire to improve a patient’s healthcare experience and provide concierge level service.
• Knowledge of pharmacy claims adjudication and benefit designs/terminology, call center experience, ability to multi-task and prioritize work, ability to work independently.
  
  

SALARY: $21-22/hr

About The Office

Our new office in Las Colinas is designed with employee experience in mind, offering a mix of comfort, convenience, and community:

• Free onsite parking and round-the-clock security team
• Free onsite fitness center and outdoor garden space for breaks
• Fully stocked kitchen with coffee, snacks, and beverages
• Discounted onsite café with a refreshed menu
• Modern, light-filled workspace with collaborative and quiet areas
• Regular happy hours and community events hosted by building management
• Walking distance to restaurants and retail in the Las Colinas area
  
  

This office brings together the perks of in-person connection with a supportive, well-equipped environment.

CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS NOTICE

In response to ongoing and industry-wide fraudulent recruitment activities (i.e., job scams), Rightway wants to inform potential candidates that we will only contact them from the @rightwayhealthcare.com email domain. We will never ask for bank details or deposits of any kind as a condition of employment. If you have any questions about a suspicious interaction with Rightway, please feel free to reach out to us at hr@rightwayhealthcare.com.

About Rightway

Rightway is on a mission to harmonize healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Our products guide patients to the best care and medications by inserting clinicians and pharmacists into a patient’s care journey through a modern, mobile app. Rightway is a front door to healthcare, giving patients the tools they need along with on-demand access to Rightway health guides, human experts that answer their questions and manage the frustrating parts of healthcare for them.

Since its founding in 2017, Rightway has raised over $130mm from investors including Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Tiger Global at a valuation of $1 billion. We’re headquartered in New York City, with satellite offices in Denver and Dallas. Our clients rely on us to transform the healthcare experience, improve outcomes for their teams, and decrease their healthcare costs.

How We Live Our Values To Our Teammates

We’re seeking those with passion for healthcare and relentless devotion to our goal. We need team members who will:

• We are human first
  
  

Our humanity binds us together. We bring the same empathetic approach to every individual we engage with, whether it be our members, our clients, or each other. We are all worthy of respect and understanding and we engage in our interactions with care and intention. We honor our stories. We listen to—and hear—each other, we celebrate our differences and similarities, we are present for each other, and we strive for mutual understanding.

• We redefine what is possible
  
  

We always look beyond the obstacles in front of us to imagine new solutions. We approach our work with inspiration from other industries, other leaders, and other challenges. We use ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with tough problems.

• We debate then commit
  
  

We believe that a spirit of open discourse is part of a healthy culture. We understand and appreciate different perspectives and we challenge our assumptions. When working toward a decision or a new solution, we actively listen to one another, approach it with a “yes, and” mentality, and assume positive intent. Once a decision is made, we align and champion it as one team.

• We cultivate grit
  
  

Changing healthcare doesn’t happen overnight. We reflect and learn from challenges and approach the future with a determination to strive for better. In the face of daunting situations, we value persistence. We embrace failure as a stepping stone to future success. On this journey, we seek to act with guts, resilience, initiative, and tenacity.

• We seek to delight
  
  

Healthcare is complicated and personal. We work tirelessly to meet the goals of our clients while also delivering the best experience to our members. We recognize that no matter the role or team, we each play a crucial part in our members’ care and take that responsibility seriously. When faced with an obstacle, we are kind, respectful, and solution-oriented in our approach. We hold ourselves accountable to our clients and our members’ success.

Rightway is PROUDLY an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in strength in the diversity of thought processes, beliefs, background and education and fosters an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated to drive the best business decisions possible. We do not discriminate on any basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the consideration of merit, qualifications, need and performance.