What are the responsibilities and job description for the Perioperative Scheduler - Days - Full Time position at Concord Hospital?
Position is located 49 South Main Street, Concord
Hours Monday through Friday 8-5pm , hours could be flexible based on department needs.
Summary
The Surgical Scheduler performs a variety of complex duties across the enterprise in collaboration with medical office personnel, surgeons, hospital staff and patients. The Scheduler arranges operative and/or invasive procedural appointments for multiple hospital departments carefully coordinating services to ensure timely access to care. The scheduler is engaged in one or more of the revenue cycle roles for the surgical cases they schedule.
Education
Some additional training beyond high school, but less than an Associates Degree.
Certification, Registration & Licensure
None required.
Experience
One year medical office experience and/or training preferred. Experience with Medical and Surgical Terminology and automated scheduling systems required. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and the ability to navigate in a Windows based environment. Experience in obtaining insurance authorizations preferred.
Hours
Rotating shifts between 8:00 am and 5:30 pm. No weekends, no major holidays.
Responsibilities
- Schedules and coordinates surgical and invasive procedures with office personnel, surgeon and hospitalstaff, as well as outside vendors as appropriate.
- Manages faxes received in the Work Queue Monitor program.
- Engages in one or more of the revenue cycle roles including, patient access, insurance verification, prior authorization and denial management for the surgical cases they schedule.
- Diligently follows up on all pending insurance approval requests and documents per departmental guidelines.
- Sets surgical case order per departmental guidelines.
- Researches, analyzes and resolves problems to ensure responses to all inquiries from patients, internal and external departments, offices and providers.
- Makes recommendations and participates in departmental activities, performance improvement effortsand quality assurance monitoring.
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Physical and Work Requirements
The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is SEDENTARY. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull less than 10 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, do repetitive motion, hear, sit, and speak. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, squat, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
The employee is occasionally exposed to electrical hazards - shock.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.