Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio.
Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.
Summary of Role:
The field-based role is responsible for providing US coverage, coding, and payment expertise to support the Lantheus Holdings portfolio. Acting as the primary contact for all patient access related inquiries, the Patient Access Leader will support seamless and timely access and reimbursement for prescribed Lantheus products. The individual in this role will have responsibility for educating customers on the services and support offered by Lantheus Link, as well as educating customers on payer coverage, coding and payment policies affecting the Lantheus portfolio and ensuring access for patients prescribed Lantheus products. The successful candidate will have a proven track-record assisting customers in facilitating patient access, overcoming complex reimbursement challenges, is an excellent cross functional collaborator and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Functions:
- This position will report to the Director, Market Access
- Educate customers on Lantheus Link services and offerings.
- Support all Lantheus Link patient referrals from submission to therapy completion.
- Serve as subject matter expert to prevent and address access and reimbursement issues.
- Provide proactive education, reimbursement support and problem-solving strategies to identified customers in defined geographical territory.
- Provide expertise on coding, coverage, and reimbursement/payment mechanisms to Sales, Marketing, and other functional areas to ensure key reimbursement information is incorporated into business strategy.
- Identify, develop, and execute business opportunities by focusing on appropriate positioning and messaging of Lantheus products within targeted payer and customer segments.
- Ability to clearly articulate value proposition of Lantheus products and possess strong clinical acumen that can be delivered in a compelling manner that ensures optimal access.
- Manage and coordinate resolution of reimbursement issues by collaborating with internal teams and prescribing office, imaging centers, and hospitals.
- Partner cross functionally to build sustainable collaborations for health systems against shared priorities/common interests to deliver long-term value and drive portfolio growth through strategies designed to maintain or improve brand formulary access.
- Collaborate with evidence generation leaders to provide guidance on evidence generation requirements to support US coding, reimbursement, and payment for new and existing products.
- Collaborate and coordinate across functions (Sales, Marketing, and Medical Affairs) to achieve business goals.
Typical Minimum Skills and Experience and Education:
- BS/BA in Business, Marketing, Economics, or related field; advance degree strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of coverage, coding, payment, and policy experience
- Preferred experience working in a hub model.
- Preferred patient services reimbursement experience
- Preferred experience specifically in radiopharmaceuticals, imaging, or diagnostics
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of the US payer market, experience with both commercial and public payers and understand the decision-making process for new treatments and imaging agents within the payer community.
- Ability to thrive in a cross-functional working environment.
- Successful decision-making, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated track record of strategic impact in defining and executing complex customer experience roadmaps while driving for innovative results.
- Demonstrated ability to develop credible relationships at high levels within accounts.
- Possesses strong business acumen negotiation and presentation skills.
- Superb written and verbal communication skills
- Field-based role; must be a self-starter with ability to work independently and organize own work without continuous direct supervision.
- Ability to travel (60% +)
Core Values:
The ideal candidate will embody Lantheus core values:
- Let people be their best
- Respect one another and act as one
- Learn, adapt, and win
- Know someone’s health is in our hands
- Own the solution and make it happen
Lantheus is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Lantheus is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Lantheus will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the Lantheus Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@lantheus.com.
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