Becker's Healthcare August 23, 2023
When Gina Batterman, RN, was pursuing her nursing degree with the goal of working in pharmacy, her professors thought she was crazy.
“You can’t go into pharmacy as a nurse,” she remembers being told.
Ms. Batterman began her healthcare career as a pharmacy technician and considered going to pharmacy school but did not have the grades needed for the competitive field. After pivoting and earning an RN degree, she was a part-time urgent care nurse on weekends and nights while also working in prior authorization pharmaceutical services at Madison, Wis.-based UW Health.
Ms. Batterman now serves as the supervisor of pharmacy reimbursement at UW Health, where she handles the idiosyncrasies of reimbursement and high-cost, clinic-administered infusion medications.
“I...
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