Patient Care Coordinator

About the role

Total Vision LLC is a group of highly successful optometry practices that have aligned towards a common goal of world-class eye-care results for its patients and California communities. We are a company that is seeing significant growth and are looking for top-notch team members with the passion, energy, focus and commitment to excel in this type of environment.

Responsibilities

• Warmly greet incoming patients upon entering the practice and complete the check-in process.
• Administrative duties including answering telephones, scheduling patient appointments per doctor preferences and transcribing messages for return calls and faxes.
• Obtain and verify insurance eligibility for all applicable patients.
• Responsible for auditing and editing insurance claims as needed.
• Scanning and entering routing slips and other documents into EHR.
• Confirm all appointments for the following day and reschedule no show appointments.
• Utilize practice's recall system.
• Pull and prepare charts for all patients scheduled for the following day.
• Processing sales of contact lens through phone calls or doctor transitions.
• Responsible for keeping the front desk organized at all times.
• Opening and closing procedures determined by practice.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

High school diploma, GED or equivalent. Experience in the Ophthalmic/Optometric/medical industry is a plus but is not required.

Skills

• Demonstrated flexibility in addressing a broad spectrum of patient requirements and preferences.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate positive patient rapport and build relationships while increasing patient-retention.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with the proven ability to manage priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to multi-task, set priorities and ensure that patient commitments/deadlines are met.
• Proficiency in utilization of automated equipment and systems standard to the optometry industry.

Physical requirements

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Hand dexterity and eye and hand coordination is critical.
• Lifting: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Use of one or both arms and wrists to lift parts, fixtures, and tools on a frequent basis.
• Sitting: Must be able to sit for long periods of time.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately or quickly.
• Travel as needed between practices.
• Required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of structures. Must be able to read a computer screen for long periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one workstation to another.