Patient Access Manager

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Patient Access Manager supporting access and reimbursement for Acadia's neurological and rare disease products. Building relationships with healthcare providers to ensure patients have access to treatments.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $128,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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, and offering program services to minimize therapy interruptions.
Facilitate patient reimbursement and affordability by guiding offices through prior authorizations, appeals, and financial support options.
Build relationships with pharmacy staff and share key insights.
Provide expertise on regional and national payer plans to team members and PAM Leads.
Support development and implementation of national-level initiatives to improve access and reimbursement strategies across brands.
Champion and manage appropriate utilization of patient support services and ensure compliance with legal/regulatory requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in life sciences preferred. Advanced degrees (RN, MSN, MBA) are a plus.
Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical sales, market access, national accounts, or specialty pharmacy. Deep expertise in access and reimbursement strategies.
Medicare expertise strongly preferred with a strong background and understanding of field environment in healthcare industry.
Equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage
401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in
15+ vacation days
13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
10 days of paid sick time
Paid parental leave benefit
Tuition assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

access-related requirementsreimbursement strategiescoverage pathwaysprior authorizationspecialty pharmacy coordinationappealspatient support servicescustomer support programsfinancial support optionspatient reimbursement

Soft Skills

problem-solvingissue resolutioncustomer experiencerelationship buildingcollaborationeducationcommunicationproactive supportmarket knowledgecross-functional teamwork

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeRNMSNMBA