Surgical Services Scheduler - Cardiac Laboratory

Job Description

Responsible for scheduling hospital-based procedures/surgeries in accordance with physician’s orders and insurance requirements, ensuring all necessary paperwork and required tests needed prior to surgery are accurately completed, and clearly communicating pre- and post-surgery instructions to patients.

Ensures reconciliation of all dropped charges to ensure they match authorized procedures and escalates to appropriate parties, if necessary.

Maintains and manages resources, including insurance portal access, and provides consistent documentation in EPIC to support the obtained insurance authorization.

Communicates changes in payer and or federal regulatory guidelines to their manager, pharmacy staff, providers and other clinical departments, as applicable.

Communicates with patient to provide pre- and post-surgery instructions, and obtains completed consent forms and required tests or preparations needed prior to surgery.

Prepares and distributes surgery packets to patients.

Keeps physician and clinical staff informed regarding pre-op testing and maintains updated documentation and charts available for physician review.

Coordinates with hospital staff for scheduling according to assigned block time and collaborates with hospital teams for inpatient case coordination and add-ons.

Surensures necessary H&P, surgical clearance, blood work and other patient tests are completed.

Scans all necessary clinical documents.

Contacts insurance company to obtain pre-certification of surgeries based on booking sheet and documents in chart.

Responsible for maintaining and obtaining all surgical authorizations.

Updates surgical authorizations with changes related to booked cases.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience is a healthcare setting
• Three years of experience in surgical scheduling, preferably with a high volume surgical practice preferred

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the provided job posting.

Schedule

Details about schedule are not specified in the provided job posting.

Benefits

Details about benefits are not specified in the provided job posting.