Patient Experience Representative-Scheduling Specialistr
Location: Intermountain Health Spanish Fork Hospital, Spanish Fork, Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Hourly pay range: $20.35 - $30.97
About the role
Creates and manages provider’s surgery schedules, including in-office procedure schedules and equipment. Maintains any changes or cancellations of surgeries for rescheduling and/or clinical follow-up. Uses provider power plans to ensure all necessary orders are proposed, signed off, and sent for hospital orders. Meets with pre-op patients to explain the surgery process.
Responsibilities
- Creates and manages provider’s surgery/hospital procedure schedules.
- Maintains any changes, cancellations, rescheduling, and/or clinical follow-up on these schedules.
- Uses Provider power plans to ensure all necessary orders are proposed, signed off, and sent for hospital orders.
- Obtains authorization for surgeries/hospital procedures by researching coverage and obtaining prior authorization.
- Verifies eligibility and benefits.
- Coordinates referrals for patients that will go out of network.
- Serves as the point of contact for surgery authorization questions.
- Obtains proper CPT code from provider for authorization.
- Proposes iCentra requirements to create a pre-surgical FIN# and to create required surgical scheduling card for the Hospital scheduler to pull the case information, where applicable.
- Coordinates with the provider to ensure all necessary surgical/procedure equipment is requested for any special items that need to be pulled from Hospital supplies or special equipment that needs to be brought in by surgical supply representatives.
- Coordinates any necessary Hospital items with nursing staff at the Hospital.
- Calls in surgical/procedure orders for Providers to the Hospital surgery/procedure scheduler the day before cases.
- Meets with surgery/procedure patients to explain the process, including pre-op labs, tests, or any pre-requisites that need prior attention.
- Coordinates with Providers and Medical Staff regarding any red flag pre-operative health concerns for patient safety.
- Scans and documents processes in patient charts and relays cost estimations.
- Investigates billing disputes for surgery/procedure.
Skills
- Medical Insurance Coding
- Computer Literacy
- Patient Care
- Health Care
- Medical Procedures
- Medical Terminology
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- Surgeries
- Patient Safety
Requirements
- Two years of medical registration, billing, collection, scheduling, or insurance experience.
- Two years of customer service experience.
- Working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, email, and calendaring programs.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Two years of medical registration, billing, collection, scheduling, or insurance experience.
- Two years of customer service experience.
- Working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, email, and calendaring programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate's Degree from an accredited institution (education verified).
- Two years at Intermountain Health as a PSR, MA, or similar position.
- Two years of experience working with patient access or two years of experience in and extensive knowledge in the health insurance industry (Commercial Insurances, Medicare, and Medicaid); health claims billing or Third Party contracts.
- EMR experience.
- Bi-lingual (Spanish speaking).
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Versed in CPT/ICD codes.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and assess customer needs.
- Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors requiring verbal communication, as well as hearing and understanding spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy, including frequent computer use for typing and accessing needed information.
- For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness encompassing living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Learn More About Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Here.
Pay
Hourly pay range: $20.35 - $30.97, dependent upon experience.
Schedule
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40