Overview

Your Career. Our Company. Together, We Grow.

At Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH), we realize that in order to provide our surrounding communities with excellent care, we must begin by providing our employees with that same care and appreciation.

We offer rich opportunities to develop and grow professionally, an environment of excellence in patient care, and the awareness that everything we accomplish is a direct outgrowth of the superb efforts and dedication of our employees.

As a non-profit system of almost 4000 employees, we have won national acclaim for our cancer, cardiac, stroke, bariatric, breast imaging, and rehabilitation services.

$15.00 / hr minimum - $18.75 / hr maximum (range increases based on education, experience and certifications)

Responsible for patient prior authorization, patient referrals including scheduling of internal referral and outgoing patient referrals, documentation of status of prior authorizations and referrals, ability to navigate registration, referral entries, auth / cert entries and patient chart workflows in EPIC, ability to update and confirm current patient insurance coverage and day to day monitoring of all EPIC prior authorizations and referrals work queues.

Responsibilities

• Safety
• Manages processes effectively in regard to employee / patient safety.
• Record Keeping
• Maintains all required records, reports, statistics, logs, files and other documents as required, including but not limited to payroll, schedules and status changes.
• Process Improvement
• Promotes a culture of process improvement by participating in unit / department based programs that supports the system’s process improvement goals.
• Actively participates on system-wide or hospital-based teams as needed.
• Role Specific Responsibilities
• Monitors EPIC prior authorization and referrals work queues daily
• Classified insurance approvals, based on physician orders, in order to expedite claim processing.
• Identify and prioritize urgent and emergency prior authorizations and referral consultation requests
• Checks chart for relevant referral / prior authorization information and shares with appropriate insurance provider or referring office provider
• Call or submit online request to insurance providers for prior authorizations
• Communicates details regarding denials and peer-to-peer request for prior authorizations and provider offices
• Communicates effectively with patients, provider staff and insurance providers by telephone and Epic Inbasket
• Follow through on referrals and prior authorizations to completion / resolution in a timely fashion
• Document progress / status of prior authorizations and referrals on the EPIC referral or EPIC auth / cert forms
• Follow-up on missing insurance documentation with patients
• Schedules internal referrals in EPIC directly onto the provider’s schedule.
• Validates information for a prior authorization or referral request and follows-up with providers office regarding missing CPT codes or missing chart documentation
• Collaborates with staff to identify workflow problems and identify solutions
• Consistently looks for ways to streamline the prior authorization and referrals process an improve the patient and staff experience
• Leads, tracks, monitors updates in insurance prior authorization criteria and educate provider staff

Qualifications

High School Diploma or Equivalent.

SIH is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status, and all other protected classifications under state of federal law.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at

Last updated : 2024-04-09