Surgery Scheduler / Wood County Urology / Full Time

Elevate your career at Wood County Hospital, where you're not just a number – you're a vital part of a team making a real difference.

Surgery Scheduler / Wood County Urology / Full Time

In accordance with the mission of Wood Health Company, LLC, the Practice Surgery Scheduler oversees the day-to-day operations in his/her practice for the coordination of surgery scheduling, prior authorizations referrals, insurance verification, assures that all medical exams, testing and follow-up are in coordinated and completed as directed by the provider. Effectively plans surgical patients by coordinating surgery and clinical activities to achieve patient and provider satisfaction.

Essential Functions:

• Follow policies and procedures related to as patient scheduling, registration, billing, authorizations and surgical scheduling processes.
• Coordinates surgical schedule processes related to billing, referrals and authorizations in order to provide a quality patient care service and billable service to the patient
• Coordinates patient care services in order to obtain surgical clearance
• Insures and verifies the collection of accurate and adequate patient and insurance information.
• Enters demographics and charges accordingly, codes surgical procedures using ICD10 diagnosis and CPT coding as documented and approved by the provider.
• Monitor practice adherence to the credit and collection policies and procedures.
• Insures compliance with point-of-service collection policies and procedures to maintain acceptable cash collections.
• Maintains open communication with hospital departments, referring physicians, staff physicians and employees.
• Responds in a timely manner to resolve patient complaints
• Manages surgical case loads timely while processing patients through specific patient criteria to obtain surgical clearance
• Assists and supports manager with data collection as required

Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited college program or certificate program.
• In lieu of formal education, a high school graduate with a minimum of two years' experience in a medical office or industry preferred.

Preferred:

• Surgical specialty experience preferred.

Benefit Summary:

Join our team, and you’ll have access to a cutting-edge facility with state-of-the-art technology. You’ll also interact with some of the region's top notch healthcare professionals. You’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and advance your career.

We’ll also reward your hard work with:

• Great health, dental and vision plans

• Competitive wages

• Prescription drug coverage

• Flexible spending accounts

• Life insurance w/AD&D

• Generous short term and long-term disability plans

• Employer-matched 403(b)

• Employer sponsored cash balance pension plan.

• Vacation and Holiday time.

• Generous tuition reimbursement

• And a lot more!