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Salary: USD 180,000 - 200,000 / annual
COMPASS Pathways is a publicly traded biotechnology company (Nasdaq: CMPS) developing innovative mental health treatments, with a focus on COMP360 psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD. The company is headquartered in London with a U.S. office in New Jersey.
The Patient Access Liaison (PAL) is a field-based role responsible for site-level execution of patient engagement strategy across the Arizona territory (Phoenix or Tucson). The PAL supports REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) certification, strengthens site access readiness, and provides compliant coverage and reimbursement education to healthcare stakeholders.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting REMS site certification and patient enrollment processes
- Enabling site access readiness by strengthening workflows and stakeholder relationships
- Providing compliant education on coverage, coding, payment, reimbursement, benefit investigations, prior authorizations, and appeals
- Educating sites on case management processes for consented patients
- Identifying and troubleshooting case-level access barriers through specialty pharmacy, HUB, and other approved pathways
- Coordinating patient treatment logistics and scheduling across REMS requirements and external support networks
- Collaborating on cross-functional handoffs with Sales and Site of Care Account Leads
- Maintaining accurate, compliant CRM documentation of account activities and case interactions
- Developing and executing account-level business plans reflecting site access priorities and operational readiness
- Maintaining non-promotional role boundaries and refraining from product promotion or commercial sales discussions
The role reports to the Regional Director of Field Patient Access and requires extensive field travel (50%+ estimated) within an assigned geography. The PAL must reside within 25 miles of the assigned territory border.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in field reimbursement, patient access, and case management within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or specialty healthcare
- Demonstrated expertise in access and reimbursement processes, specialty pharmacy programs, patient support services, coverage, benefit verification, prior authorization, appeals, and affordability programs
- Experience helping sites and stakeholders support patient progression from referral through treatment initiation
- Experience partnering with treatment sites to assess needs, strengthen workflows, and build trusted relationships
- Strong planning, organization, accountability, and disciplined execution skills
- Ability to use data and field insights to anticipate and address access challenges
- Experience collaborating compliantly with matrix partners while maintaining appropriate role boundaries
- Bachelor's degree required
- Valid driver's license required
- Ability and willingness to travel within assigned geography by air and car (50%+ travel)
- Must reside within 25 miles of assigned territory border(s)
