Patient Access Liaison (San Diego, CA)

Job overview:  

The Patient Access Liaison (PAL) is responsible for site-level execution of Compass Pathways' patient engagement strategy by supporting REMS certification, strengthening site access readiness, and providing compliant coverage and reimbursement education to healthcare stakeholders. The PAL serves as a field-based patient access resource who helps sites understand treatment logistics, identify information gaps, address patient access barriers, and support operational readiness across REMS requirements, specialty pharmacy, distribution, and external support processes. In addition, the PAL strengthens account and stakeholder relationships, collaborates appropriately with matrix team members, maintains disciplined CRM documentation, and upholds non-promotional role boundaries. This role also shares recurring field insights and process-improvement opportunities.

Location: Field based in San Diego, Irvine or Anaheim, CA. 

Reports to: Regional Director, Field Patient Access.

Roles and Responsibilities
(include but are not limited to): 

• Support REMS certification and enrolment: Educate sites on REMS site certification activities and patient REMS enrolment processes, including applicable operational, requirements
• Enable site access readiness: Support site access workflows following REMS certification, strengthen account and stakeholder relationships, and help ensure operational readiness for therapy delivery while streamlining the patient journey
• Provide reimbursement and access education: Provide compliant and proactive education to site and office personnel regarding coverage, coding, payment, reimbursement, benefit investigations, claims, prior authorizations, appeals, and access processes
• Educate on case management processes: Educate on appropriate case management processes for consented patients, including compliant use of patient healthcare information, benefit investigations, benefit verifications, prior authorizations, appeals, and affordability program navigation
• Support case-level access resolution: Identify, troubleshoot, case-level access barriers through appropriate buy-and-bill, specialty pharmacy, HUB, and other approved support pathways
• Enable treatment logistics understanding: Coordinate patient treatment logistics and scheduling across REMS requirements, HUB, specialty pharmacies, distribution partners, and other external support networks
• Collaborate on cross-functional handoffs: Receive and act upon referrals and handoffs from Sales and Site of Care Account Leads regarding site readiness, account economics discussions, and case-level access challenges
• Maintain compliant documentation: Maintain accurate, compliant, and timely documentation of account activities, case interactions, and resolution outcomes within the CRM system to support cross-functional visibility and coordination
• Manage accounts and maintain business plans: Develop, maintain, and execute account-level business plans that reflect site access priorities, stakeholder needs, operational readiness, and patient access opportunities within the assigned geography
• Maintain non-promotional role boundaries: Refrain from engaging in promotional activities, product promotion, or commercial sales discussions

Candidate Profile:

• Experience: Candidate must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in field reimbursement, patient access, and case management within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, specialty healthcare, including required experience navigating a healthcare ecosystem
• Industry Knowledge:
  • Access & Reimbursement Expertise: Candidate must have experience supporting access and reimbursement processes, specialty pharmacy programs, patient support services, coverage, benefit verification, prior authorization, appeals, affordability programs, and compliant access resources
  • Patient Journey Enablement: Candidate must have experience helping sites and stakeholders support patient progression from referral through treatment initiation by identifying barriers, connecting resources, and reinforcing treatment readiness and next steps
  • Strategic Account Support: Candidate must have experience partnering with treatment sites to assess needs, strengthen workflows, build trusted account and stakeholder relationships
  • Operational Excellence & Execution: Candidate must demonstrate strong planning, organization, accountability, disciplined execution, and the ability to use data and field insights to anticipate and address access challenges across multiple accounts and priorities
  • Collaborative Influence & Compliance: Candidate must have experience collaborating compliantly with matrix partners while maintaining appropriate role boundaries, communicating access barriers and field insights, and balancing stakeholder needs with patient-centered execution
• Education: Bachelor’s degree required
• Certifications and licenses: Valid driver’s license required
• Travel: Ability and willingness to travel within an assigned geography, including travel by air and car, with travel estimated to be 50% or more. Candidate must reside within 25 miles of the assigned territory border(s). Assigned geography may be larger at launch and may evolve or become more focused as the field organization expands