UR Utilization Review Coordinator

College Medical Center Phoenix is proud to be the newest addition to College Health Enterprises. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality customer service with warmth, friendliness, and organizational pride. Join a team that values respect, flexibility, a close-knit environment, and the autonomy to utilize your knowledge and experience.

Job Summary

The UR Coordinator is responsible for facilitating care across the continuum through effective resource coordination and discharge planning, assisting patients in achieving optimal health, access to care, and appropriate utilization of resources. This is balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The manager must possess knowledge and experience in confidentiality and compliance with HIPAA regulations.

Shift: Monday - Friday

Qualifications:

• Collaborates with physicians, therapists, the treatment team, and patients to develop effective continuing care plans.

• Makes telephone calls, sends faxes, makes copies, and coordinates discharge plans.

• Provides patients with reasonable aftercare options and discusses these individually and/or with family, as requested by the patient.

• Collects and releases information to accurately research and refer to services.

• Maintains timely and accurate records.

• Initiates contact with referral sources, community mental health providers, physicians, nursing homes, residential treatment facilities, and other placement options to facilitate continuity of care.

• Coordinates admissions to secondary hospitals, treatment centers, nursing homes, and other placements as needed.

• Schedules follow-up appointments with psychiatrists and therapists for continued outpatient treatment whenever possible.

• Actively researches and updates provider and treatment facility lists.

• Maintains an up-to-date referral, contact, and resource database.

Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for CMC Phoenix roles, including but not limited to shift differential and other special pay practices. The posted compensation for the position is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay that CMC Phoenix, in good faith, believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

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