Ensure Pharmacy Benefits Excellence
Are you ready to contribute at an organization’s most senior level, including board membership? Become a CPBL and gain the confidence and fulfillment you’ve been wanting while working at leading organizations around the globe in a senior level position. Our Certified Pharmacy Benefits Leader course is the only formal and internationally recognized “Certified Pharmacy Benefits Leader” designation has been developed with a mix of technical rigor and practical workplace-based projects with a focus on developing leaders in the pharmacy benefit management discipline. It’s your gateway to a better future for you and stellar results for your customers.
Benefits for the Individual
- GREATER FULLFILLMENT
Completing this course will provide more fulfillment and confidence at work.
- IMPROVED LEADERSHIP
This course work will enable you to better lead and manage a team.
- COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
When applying for new positions and promotions, graduates will have a significant advantage.
- RECOGNITION
As a graduate, you will be a distinguished pharmacy benefits management professional recognized both domestically and internationally.
Benefits for the Organization
- ENHANCED SERVICE
Increase the level of pharmacy benefits excellence within the organization.
- MORE CONFIDENT LEADERS
The course results in more confidence as skill levels increase among your leaders.
- GREATER INSIGHT
The practical, workplace based projects enable your CPBL graduates to tackle problems relevant to your pharmacy benefits management strategy while they learn.
- MORE OPPORTUNUITY
Having a CPBL on staff is a requirement for earning Platinum Certification as a CPBO or Certified Pharmacy Benefits Organization.
Benefits for the Individual
Completing this course will provide more fulfillment and confidence at work.
This course work will enable you to better lead and manage a team.
- GREATER FULLFILLMENT
- IMPROVED LEADERSHIP
When applying for new positions and promotions, graduates will have a significant advantage.
- COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
As a graduate, you will be a distinguished pharmacy benefits management professional recognized both domestically and internationally.
- RECOGNITION
Having a CPBL on staff is a requirement for earning Platinum Certification as a CPBO or Certified Pharmacy Benefits Organization.
- MORE OPPORTUNUITY
The practical, workplace based projects enable your CPBL graduates to tackle problems relevant to your pharmacy benefits management strategy while they learn.
- GREATER INSIGHT
The course results in more confidence as skill levels increase among your leaders.
- MORE CONFIDENT LEADERS
Increase the level of pharmacy benefits excellence within the organization.
- ENHANCED SERVICE
Benefits for the Organization
Requirements
To become a Certified Pharmacy Benefits Leader (CPBL) you must be a Certified Pharmacy Benefits Specialist (CPBS) in good standing for a minimum of two years and achieve a minimum composite score of 90% for CPBS recertification. Like most professional certifications, those holding a certification must maintain the highest levels of professionalism and performance in order to maintain their certified status. Our CPBL certification is for a period of 24 months. All certification holders can keep their CPBL certification current by completing two (2) mandatory Professional Development Units every two years.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) can be achieved by:
- Book review on any business book – what you learned and if you would recommend it. The length needs to be between 1000 – 1500 words.
- Article on a current trend in Pharmacy Benefits Management: this can be either something happening, or a project within, your own organization, or something happening in the marketplace. This article also needs to be between 1000 – 1500 words.
- PBIA Webinars – check our events calendar and enroll there or look for our emails that will come out with registration details.
- Approved Content – if you have taken any course this year and would like to submit the course syllabus, along with proof of attendance, we will review the information and consider this to count as your other PDU Providing evidence of attendance at some other recognized customer focus or service excellence training program or event.
Our re-certification consists of two components:
- A written component wherein the candidate is directed to respond to some basic questions.
- CPBS online or in-person course modules (8) which will test the candidates understanding or application of the core concepts provided in the initial CPBS training which the individual attended.
Our certification is for a period of 24 months. At the end of this period the candidate must
re-certify ($995.00 USD to re-certify). Successfully completing our re-certification process
by submitting 2 PDUs annually at your designated renewal date (provided at time
certification was completed and verified). The certified individual’s name will be included in
our official database and online certification directory as a Certified Pharmacy Benefits
Leader in good standing. Upon recertification as a CPBL, you are automatically recertified as a CPBS. Then $995 recertification fee covers both designations.
