Careers

At LipoScience, we believe in making a difference in patients' lives, and we understand that our employees play a crucial role in achieving this mission. As part of our team, you will work with talented and dedicated colleagues with diversified experiences, strong ethics, and integrity while developing your career.

If you are interested in joining our team, please email your resume to recruiting@liposcience.com, or fax it to 919-212-1998. Please include the job title, job code, your salary requirements, and professional references. LipoScience offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. At this time, we are currently unable to accept resumes for positions that are not listed here.

Medical Affairs: Area Director, Health Policy and Reimbursement
Job Code: 200MCA2412

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Area Director, Health Policy and Reimbursement

Responsibilities:

Summary:

Directs the coding, payment & medical policy coverage initiatives and contracting strategies within assigned national and regional managed care organization(s), laboratories and employer groups (employee benefit plans). Calls on managed care organizations developing national coverage, coding, payment strategies and pull-through programs; provides technical and administrative product information and/or demonstrations and responds to requests for proposals. Develops and manages national accounts and regional payers including the development of the overall value proposition, including appropriate patient selection criteria positioning and product specifications.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develops and executes strategies to secure positive health plan medical policies that include favorable coverage and improved reimbursement for the NMR LipoProfile Test, to be deemed ?medically necessary? within national, regional, and local payers.
May develop/engage payers in Demonstration Projects, drilling into direct billed health plan data / data match with Health plans / direct patient chart reviews when necessary
partner with Accountable Care Organizations to drive NMR LipoProfile Test inclusion in Payer/Provider ACO contracts and utilization
Collaborate with health plans to implement the NMR LipoProfile Test Health Economic Model
Incorporate patient / consumer / provider / employer advocacy as necessary to drive positive coverage decisions & appropriate reimbursement
May work with CMS MACs to create Local Coverage Decisions (LCDs) if necessary
Cultivates business partnership with key decision makers and achieves preference over standard of care testing and competitors in market.
Negotiates executive level managed care contracts within assigned region.
Works with Lab Partners to improve health plan coverage and reimbursement
Reverse negative coverage policies based on third party, independent, peer-reviewed journal articles and data. Seek to fully understand and comprehend the cause of negative coverage policies so that outstanding issues, regardless of the topic, may be addressed and overcome.
May perform patient analyses under payer umbrella and deliver discordance rates to obtain coverage
Functions may also include negotiating direct, LipoScience provider contracts with health plans to facilitate billing of health plans under our direct business model
Assist in developing and execution of overall strategies for the Health Policy & Reimbursement department
May facilitate round-table meetings with the payers, KOLs, key Lab partners and/or Employers
Collaborates on efforts to develop Reimbursement Help-Line / Patient Assistance Program for direct business & Lab Partner billed claims / patient waiver & appeals projects
Will be a resource to the LipoScience sales and laboratory teams. Help educate field sales, hospital & strategic account lab teams.
As needed, will actively engage with ACLA and other appropriate organizations/societies to stay current with the changing landscape of coverage and reimbursement.
Builds and expands relationships with key opinion leaders for all LipoScience products.
Engages external organizations such as State Insurance Commissioners offices, State Legislators on policy initiatives, reviews appeal patterns and important trends to influence medical policy
Will be a team leader and provide professional leadership on one or more national health plan accounts.
May be involved in specialty societies, patient registries and data extraction for collaboration with employees and payers.

Minimum Education and Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree. Eight to ten years diagnostic, surgical or pharmaceutical sales and/or marketing experience. Minimum of five years managed care medical policy, appeals and contracting handling coding, coverage and payment issues related to CMS, HMOs and MCOs on a national, regional and local level.
Must possess strong analytical skills and understand the technology assessment processes and appeals process within a payer.
Strong understanding of changes taking place in the healthcare reform and payer environment.
Strong knowledge of all aspects of payer systems, including risk management systems and provider contracting.
Proficient computer skills in Microsoft including excel and power point.
Ability to lead internal multi-functional teams and participate in cross-functional teams.
Must be self-directed; acting as a change agent and as such have results orientation, with an ability to work independently and make decisions in a dynamic environment dealing with internal and external issues.
Possess a positive attitude with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive issues, posses strong negotiating skills, problem solving ability and people management skills.
Have excellent organizational and time management skills, verbal communication, and written skills, possess a ?business mindset?, including comfort with accountability to business metrics and a desire to be an integral component in the company?s success.
Have the ability to build and maintain key relationships, represent LipoScience in a professional manner both internally and externally, while adhering to all regulatory guidelines.
Entrepreneurial spirit and desire to work for a ?game-changing? company that will result in a paradigm shift in patient care.
Experience with cardiovascular disease is preferred.
Previous employment within a payer organization and a medical manufacturer , working on health policy and payment initiatives is a plus.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 200MCA2412 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

Medical Affairs: Manager, Corporate Appeals and Reimbursement
Job Code: 200MCA2312

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Manager, Corporate Appeals and Reimbursement

Responsibilities:

Summary:

Responsible for designing, implementing and executing the company?s corporate appeals & reimbursement program and policies. Conducts analytical research and provides expertise on pricing/reimbursement and market access for new and existing products. Establishes and maintains relationships with customers, including physicians and patients, and insurance/managed care organizations, to ensure a successful reimbursement and appeals program. Functions as an advocate for and a resource to patients, customers and their professional organizations in the areas of reimbursement and health policy. Works closely with field sales staff, and provides training and direction on relevant reimbursement, coding, claim and appeal issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Manages external/internal reimbursement help-line activities, including reporting and communications
Develops and executes the internal appeals program, creates a uniform process which receives and responds in a timely fashion to denied claims, evaluates health plan decisions, and continues to elevate appeals to the highest level available within the health plan, coordinating all parties and documentation for an external review hearing when necessary.
Gains patient authorization to perform assessment of individual claims/denials, identifies if denial is a result of coding issues, non-coverage issues, or benefit issues, provides education and instruction, takes all necessary steps to support positive claims resolution.
Compiles all necessary documentation for appeal submission including patient letter, physician letter of medical necessity, patient chart, health plan correspondence, clinical material, clinical guidelines and example medical policies (such as CMS NCD) to be submitted with patient appeals.
Oversees patient re-submission as directed by payer to exhaust appeals process.
Engages external organizations such as State Insurance Commission office in each case.
Tracks payment and denials, analyzes trends and reports on experience of appeal patterns, reports data and important trends weekly, monthly and quarterly by payer.
Regularly reviews and modifies this program with appropriate interventions / adjustments / documentation.
Educates Health Policy & Reimbursement team on key findings to leverage within the medical policy decisions of payers.
Must be highly accessible to the field sales organization, and enjoy routine interaction with customers, patients and insurance company professionals.
Selects, develops manages and evaluates external or internal personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Limited travel may be required.

Minimum Education and Qualifications:

BA Degree plus Minimum five (5) years experience in appeals and reimbursement in the diagnostics or medical device industry working on reimbursement and medical policy issues related to CMS, HMOs and MCOs on a national and local level.
Must be self-directed; acting as a change agent and as such have results orientation, with an ability to work independently and make decisions in a dynamic environment dealing with internal and external issues.
Possess a positive attitude with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive issues, posses negotiating skills, problem solving ability and people management skills.
Have excellent organizational/time management skills, verbal communication, and written skills, possess a ?business mindset?, including comfort with accountability to business metrics and a desire to be an integral component in the company?s success.
Have the ability to build and maintain key relationships, represent LipoScience in a professional manner both internally and externally, while adhering to all regulatory guidelines.
Entrepreneurial spirit and desire to be a part of a ?game-changing? company that will result in a paradigm shift in patient care.
Experience with cardiovascular disease is preferred.
Previous employment within a payer organization overseeing appeals programs is a plus.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 200MCA2312 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

NMR Lab: Medical Technologist
Job Code: 411MT3711

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Medical Technologist (1st shift, Sunday ? Thursday).

Responsibilities:

Accurate and timely testing of specimens, operating and troubleshooting instruments, evaluating assay performance and resolving problems independently
Evaluating instruments, equipment, reagents, quality control, calibrator, and proficiency testing materials

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor degree in medical technology, chemistry or other appropriate scientific discipline from an accredited college or university
Certification as a Medical Technologist by a CLIA approved certifying agency
Some experience as a Medical Technologist or Medical Technologist intern

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge of clinical laboratory instrumentation, (including preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, validation), quality control and calibration procedures
Knowledge of quality control principles
Knowledge of evaluating quality control data, drawing appropriate conclusions as to the acceptability of such data
Knowledge of routine clinical laboratory testing procedures and ability to produce concise and accurate working protocols
Working knowledge of biological and chemical safety protocols, and laboratory safety rules
Knowledge of factors that can influence test results including a thorough understanding of the methodologies being utilized within the clinical laboratory
Knowledge of basic statistics a plus

Skills

Ability to organize and prioritize work
Ability to meet scheduled deadlines
Ability to work positively and professionally with employees
Ability to work across departments
MS Excel and MS Word skills
Ability to learn in?house software systems
Ability to learn NMR
Excellent trouble?shooting skills
Ability to work well independently
Ability to make sound decisions
Ability to read, comprehend and strictly follow all relevant safety procedures
Ability to appropriately complete compliance forms such as temperature, maintenance etc.
Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure, performing duties associated with the job
Ability to speak and write fluently in the English language

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 411MT3711 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com.

Operations: Laboratory Director
Job Code: 901LD2512

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Laboratory Director

Under the direction of Operations VP, this position is responsible for:

Ensuring laboratory results and records produced at LipoScience Inc meet utmost quality and adherence to related regulatory standards.
Administering day-to-day technical and scientific operations of LipoScience Clinical laboratory.
Creating and implementing strategies, policies, procedures and best practices needed to support the optimal laboratory performance at LipoScience Inc.
Maintain strong working relationships with key collaborators, including R&D, Quality Affairs, Commercial Operations, Global research service and other teams.

Minimum Education and Qualifications:

Must hold a doctoral degree in chemical science from an accredited institution. The Laboratory Director must be certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry or other board deemed comparable by HHS.
Must be qualified to manage and direct the laboratory personnel in performance of high complexity testing and must be eligible to provide overall management and direction of the laboratory within the requirements of Subpart R (493.1800) of 42 CFR.
Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, data analysis, organization, and computer software skills.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 901LD2512 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

Operations: Sales and Operations Business Analyst
Job Code: 130SBA1112

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Sales and Operations Business Analyst

This position is responsible for providing Sales, Marketing and Business analytics. It is also responsible for providing performance measures and ongoing metrics/decision support information to the Senior Management Team, departmental managers, and cross functional project teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

Collect and analyze data for reporting and/or performance trend analysis
Prepare a broad variety of reports to internal and external customers
Apply advanced Excel/Access skills to conduct analysis and to build tools that allow business users to query, analyze, understand and present data
Create ad-hoc reports and analysis, as needed
Weekly and Monthly sales reporting
Sales Forecasting
Performance metric reporting
Interactively work with business users across the organization
Participate on cross functional project teams
Prepare analysis and presentations for Senior Management

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business or Economics
7-10 years of relevant experience in a high growth and rapidly changing business environment
3-5 years of experience with salesforce.com
In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) or healthcare experience is required

Knowledge and Skills:

Strong Analytical skills
Organizational skills
Detail-oriented
Extensive MS Office experience
Issue resolution
Oral and written communication
Ability to multi-task, in a fast paced environment
Knowledge of business processes and procedures
Advanced data analysis skills
Experience generating polished, executive-level documents and analysis
Advanced Excel:
- Must be able to build complex formulas and Lookups
- Must be able to create charts, graphs
- Must understand and be able to build pivot tables
- Must be able to link to external data using Excel
- Must understand how data should be organized to achieve different effects
Advanced Access:
- Must be able build queries and formulas
- Must understand how to link tables and anticipate results
- Must be able to import/export data
- Must be able to link to external data
Salesforce.com:
- Must be able to build reports in salesforce.com
- Must be able to import and export data from salesforce.com

Local Candidates Preferred.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 130SBA1112 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

Regulatory: Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Job Code: 529SRAM1811

LipoScience, Inc., a medical technology company, is seeking a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager.

Responsibilities include:

Establish the appropriate submission strategy for the company's product development efforts
Preparation of regulatory submissions (IDE, 510(k), PMA)
Provide input on clinical study design and development of clinical protocols and support Quality System activities

Qualified candidates must possess a BA/BS, 5+ yrs of direct IVD industry experience in regulatory affairs and thorough knowledge and direct experience with the 510(k) and PMA submission process and FDA regulations.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 529SRAM1811 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com.

Research and Development: Software Engineer
Job Code: 313SSE2212

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

This position is broadly responsible for the software development activities for FDA-regulated medical device software.

Responsible for software development activities include:

Work as part of an inter-disciplinary team to develop software requirements specifications.
Work as part of a team to develop and maintain software design specifications, as well as other design control documentation.
Lead system architecture design efforts.
Lead development of software to meet requirement and design specifications, which may include one or more of the following areas:
- Embedded hardware control
- Numerical methods for data analysis algorithms
- GUI control
- Database management
Develop and execute software unit tests.
Support software and system verification and validation testing activities.
Participate in code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications:

PhD in computer science, engineering, or related discipline, or
MS in computer science, engineering, or related discipline and minimum of 2 years experience developing software, or
BS in computer science, engineering, or related discipline and minimum of 4 years experience developing software, or
Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience developing software

Knowledge and Skills:

Knowledge of software development methodologies.
Proven ability to provide technical leadership within a team and influence without authority.
Experience developing software for at least two of the following areas: embedded hardware control, GUI control, numerical methods for data analysis algorithms, and database design.
Knowledge of object-oriented programming.
Knowledge of software change tracking processes.
Effective analytical and quantitative skills.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Effective organizational skills.
The ability to read, understand and conform to policies and procedures.
The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in matrix organization, directed by both project leaders and functional leaders.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively on an interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrated ability to commit to assigned tasks.
Ability to learn and understand diverse and complex systems.
Experience developing software for FDA regulated medical devices strongly preferred.
Experience developing software for in-vitro diagnostic systems strongly preferred.
Knowledge of C# and .NET preferred.
Knowledge of database design preferred.
Knowledge of SQL programming preferred.
Knowledge of FDA Design Regulations preferred.
Knowledge of NUnit preferred.
Knowledge of numerical methods preferred.

Local Candidates Preferred.

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 313SSE2212 when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

Sales: CV Consultant
Job Code: 523CVC2612 in Baltimore Area, 524CVC2712 in Southern Arizona

LipoScience, a diagnostic company, is seeking to fill the position of Cardio Vascular Consultant

2 Positions: Southern Arizona, Baltimore Area

Duties and Responsibilities:

Covers geographical area representing LipoScience to clients to secure business for our product line. Customer/account development.

Sells NMR LipoProfile® and entire product line to physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, lab directors, physician office staff, practice managers, lab managers lab personnel, hospital directors.
Builds awareness of NMR LipoProfile® by educating physicians and other health care providers on the science of lipoproteins, lipoanalysis, and NMR. Presents science based discussions for small and large groups of physicians and health care professionals. Sets up and conducts physician speaker programs to educate physicians on the NMR technology.
Develops speaking advocates to conduct speaker programs and roundtables with other potential customers to educate them on the science of lipoproteins and increase sales of product line.
Develops and implements plan of action for assigned territory to best serve customer needs and increase sales for product line.
Educates physician office personnel on the proper way to complete requisition forms for NMR LipoProfile® and helps establish systems for the office that best meet their needs.
Trains lab and office personnel on the requirements necessary to draw, prepare and ship blood samples for analysis.

Minimum Education and Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of consistent high performance in a direct sales role
Proven record of over-achieving sales goals
Experience in working successfully with industry partners to develop and grow business
Unparalleled Commitment and Dedication to succeed
Strong “Team” attitude
Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
Ability to learn the sales database system

LipoScience offers an excellent benefits and compensation package. Please reference Job No. 523CVC2612 in the Baltimore Area, or 524CVC2712 in Southern Arizona when applying for this position. Please fax your resume, including references and salary requirements, to (919) 212-1998 (fax) or email recruiting@liposcience.com. EOE

Please consider joining the LipoScience team. Submit your resume to recruiting@liposcience.com.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
LipoScience provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or military status and in accordance with applicable local, state and federal laws governing non-discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.