Opportunities for Pharmacy technicians
Features of a Specialty Pharmacy Tech position:
- Completely relaxed set up with focus on patient care.
- High quality environment- Surrounded by Higher quality peer group, providers, payers, and patients who really need care.
- An environment of learning and growth: Every day, staff learns something new like new drugs, new inventions, disease state discussions with pharmacists, etc.
- Technicians are directly involved in resolving prior authorizations, financial assistance, and drug deliveries.
- A sense of accomplishment every day provides much-needed cheer and job satisfaction- Rewarding experience due to patient satisfaction and recognition by managers.
There are various Specialty pharmacies in the following settings:
PBM Specialty Pharmacies: CVS, Optum RX, Alliance Rx, Accredo, etc.
Community Based: Walgreens
Health Systems Based: Within hospitals (340 B entities)
Wholesaler based: McKesson, Cardinal, etc.
Free-standing/Independent: Avella, Biologics, etc.
Several opportunities await you in the following designations:
- Sr Specialty Pharmacy Technician
- Third Party Specialist
- Pharmacy benefits coordinator
- Pharmacy technician- Clinical support
- Clinical Pharmacy technician
- Prior authorization Specialist
- Specialty Billing technician
- Specialty Technician Supervisor
- Specialty Pharmacy technician team leader
- Patient care coordinator
- Pharmacy Technician-regulatory and Compliance
- Pharmacy Technician- Inventory Specialist
As you can see below, the data from www.salary.com clearly indicates that Specialty Pharmacy pays a lot more than any other setting just because of the enormous potential of growth of Specialty pharmacy in the next decade. Here is the graph representing the difference in pays between Certified Infusion pharmacy technician, Certified compounding Pharmacy Technician, Hospital technician, Sr Cert Pharmacy Technician (Sr CPhT), Specialty pharmacy Tech and a Specialty Pharmacy Technician Team Leader:
Median annual Salary v/s Various Pharmacy Technician positions
Median Salary of a Specialty Pharmacy technician
