What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Intervention Clinician position at Lincare?
The Patient Intervention Clinician reviews ventilator candidate's medical information submitted by local centers via a computerized system. Based on established clinical coverage criteria by payers and company protocol approves ventilator candidates for admission to the company's ventilator program.
- Answer questions and provides local center education regarding the organization’s ventilator program.
- Assesses customer need for additional products/services when applicable.
- Documents activities in computerized record keeping system.
- Relays information reviewed back to patient's local center and documents this correspondence in a computerized record keeping system
- Verifies and updates demographic information such as address and telephone number in computerized records if applicable.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
- 11 am EST - 8 pm EST shift
Qualifications:
- Must have excellent human relations skills to interface with patients, doctors, and employees to provide advice and direction
- Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
- Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Compute rate, ratio, and percent, as well as to draw and interpret bar graphs
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Credentialed by the National Board of Respiratory Care as a CRT or RTT and licensed to practice respiratory therapy Required