Patient Access Manager - Nashville, TN

Position Summary

The Patient Access Manager (PAM) will provide expert field-based access and reimbursement support, serving as a dedicated point of contact to healthcare providers (HCPs) for their on-label access-related questions regarding company products. This field-based role acts as a critical liaison among HCPs, Specialty Pharmacies (SPs), payers, patients, hub services, and internal cross-functional teams. As a coverage and access subject matter expert, the PAM is integral to ensure patients have timely access to treatment by providing support for customers in an assigned geographic territory. This role requires frequent travel to support the access needs of key stakeholders. PAM is a non-promotional role within ACADIA and adheres to all ACADIA-approved compliance guidelines, including the role-specific Rules of Engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively educate healthcare providers on navigating programs, processes, and access-related requirements to facilitate patient access to ACADIA products via in-person and virtual interactions.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in preventing and addressing access and reimbursement issues through education, problem-solving, and issue resolution ensuring solutions are optimized to support the patient’s access journey and deliver excellent customer experience.
• Proactively build and maintain access-related relationships with HCP accounts and their office support staff.
• Demonstrate deep market knowledge and apply this to navigating the patient access process, building and maintaining access-related knowledge, and supporting coverage and reimbursement requirements.
• Conduct proactive in-services with HCPs on all aspects of the access journey, including but not limited to coverage pathways, prior authorization, specialty pharmacy coordination, appeals, hub resources, and patient support services.
• Escalate local payer issues to National Account Managers and PAM Leads.
• Condense complex issues into simple solutions by collaborating cross-functionally to improve customer experience, educate HCPs/Office Staff on coverage status, prior authorization, and appeals.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of ACADIA customer support programs and serve as the expert in the assigned territory.
• Provide proactive pre-referral educational in-services to prevent coverage barriers before referral.
• Provide post-referral support to HCP offices by addressing education needs, pulling through access and coverage for patients, and coordinating with ACADIA customer support programs and specialty pharmacies to monitor referral status.
• Support continuity of patient access by proactively educating HCP offices on reauthorization requirements, assisting with payer transitions.