Respiratory Specialty Lay Offs

Looks like they are getting ready to eliminate respiratory specialty by giving Fasenra to primary care. Tick tock.

 

Among the most stupid posts ever in the history of cafepharma. Obviously a troll dunce, or just an incredibly challenged PCP rep.

 

Not too sure. Even piloting direct sell in a couple regions. Why pay specialty reps crazy $ (salary and bonus) when you really do nothing different than RST and base reps do. I have been to lunches listening to the "detail". Don't see anything special...sorry.

 

I can’t decide if it is:

A: remarkably insulting to resp inhaled reps to ask them to do the same job as the bss folks do for a mere fraction of what they are making, especially since most were denied the opportunity to post for those bss jobs when they were first offered

or

B: remarkably insulting to the bss reps to have reps doing the same job as they do for way more than the inhaled reps are making, thus making them look like a lucklaster team of overpaid buffoons.

either way and in either scenario, it makes the company look horrible.

 

horrible? yes
Greedy and despicable? absolutely

 

who are you kidding, Resp Inhaled don’t get paid on the product.

 

Morons all of you. Obviously dont understand the docs they sell too, PCP reps selling to an allergist??? Ha

 

You all obviously have no clue. Most payers won’t even let a PCP doctor write Fasenra and approve it nor do they have the office staff to complete the paperwork. You have zero clue of even how to follow through with the paperwork or what these coordinators do to get a patient approved. They just want you to educate the PCP docs we don’t have time to call on to refer these patients. We are busy working with doctors and staff as a resource not just getting a signature for samples. Shows how little you actually understand about the process.

 

Well aren’t you special.

Your post actually shows how little YOU know. The entire resp inhaled team was pulled onto a national call last week to announce that they are indeed beginning to train these reps on promoting PRESCRIBING within the PC space and also training on the paperwork aspect. The inhaled reps will now the doing the same job that you oh-so-special bss reps do, but for a fraction of the pay or bonus. So step down off your high horse, honey.

 

You obviously did not take the time to read MY response; typical primary care rep, lack of attention to details, probably screw up the food orders all the time.

 

No - pretty sure I did.

thats okay. just keep sitting over there thinking your shit doesn't stink and let us know how it goes when the company shows you the door because the "typical" primary care reps are now doing your oh-so-special job just as well and for way less money.

 

It really is quite comical. I have done both. The only difference is specialty pharmacy. Guess how many times I have had any provider or staff ask me about it? zero.

With so many specialty products going all the way to Xolair, all allergists know well how to get these drugs. Specialty training is almost identical to PCP's. When I was a respiratory inhaled PSS, I would tag team lunches (mine) with the biologic rep (showing good collaboration so I could set myself up for a bio position) and their skill set and how they sold wasn't any different. In fact, I knew I could do better.

Anyway, I am no longer at AZ. Never was given an opportunity so......Dupixent baby!

 

so u are telling us that inhaled specialist reps will be formally selling FASENRA with full IC? Not that joker arrangement last Fall, where we get a pat on the back for referrals??? DOUBTFUL

 

Well Thomas they are doing it in a couple of regions as a pilot program. The rest of the country now has 2 pc reps participating in the Fasenra joker arrangement.

 

Not sure that our Primary Care Reps are up for the heavy lifting involved in selling a Biologic. Between the work that goes into converting an Enrollment to Injection, the Prior Authorization that is required for every new patient and the $4800 per dose Price Tag with a 20% Co-Pay, many of our Primary Care Reps would not make it through the first week. Not to mention, not having the Crutch of Samples.

I'm just saying!

 

Yea. wez jst stopid moorons.
D-bag.

 

Well Said! Selling biologics in not for the faint of heart.

 

Really? I bet our primary care reps can do a better job of selling Fasenra than the crappy US sales of $139 million generated in the last quarter of 2019 by our great biologics specialty reps. Time to make changes and the sooner the better.

 

hahahaha! Now that’s funny. Yeah not for the faint of heart any more than PC is.......lord knows it’s soOooOoOo hard to get paid six figs to cater lunch and socialize every day. Everyone know bss reps do NOTHING different from PC!!