Sr Medical Office Coordinator
Sr Medical Office Coordinator
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Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients who offer biotechnology product development services. The Company focuses on providing laboratory equipment chemicals supplies and services used in healthcare scientific research safety and education.
Job Title: Sr. Medical Office Coordinator
Location: Baltimore MD 21287
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Summary:
General summary/purpose:
- Coordinate the daytoday activities of a multifaceted complex medical and/or surgical practice within the Department of Otolaryngology.
- The Sr. Coordinator will ensure a smoothly functioning office and good patient relations. Serve as resource in team environment.
- May serve in lead capacity to orient train and direct new medical office coordinators or other office staff. Address patient problems third party issues and patientrelated situations based on past experiences and resolve issues independently.
- As appropriate refer patients to other resources. Adapt to changes in technology and software to ensure efficient office practice.
- Provide administrative support for medical matters on behalf of physicians as well as general academic/general administrative support.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
- Medical Administrative Support. Professionally and efficiently handle incoming requests from patients and ensure that issues are resolved both promptly and thoroughly.
- Gather patient information fulfill patient needs educate patients where applicable to prevent the need for future contacts and document interactions in applicable systems.
- Provide quality service and support in a variety of areas which may include but not limited to scheduling registration and care coordination.
- Serve as a resource for other Medical Office staff and other administrative support staff. Train new staff and may serve as a super user for new systems
- Talk to prospective patients and/or family members to determine appropriate health care provider for patient(s).
- Advanced discussion includes: if provider is appropriate specialist or if someone else may be more appropriate based on area of specialization timeframe to get an appointment insurance coverage and geographic location.
- Offer effective alternatives to patient when appropriate
- Routinely addresses patient related situations based on past experiences and knowledge and understanding of healthcare resources and how they should be used.
- Examples may include working with VIP patients work with international patients and unique scheduling situations.
- Coordinate all pieces of a patient visits pre and post op.
- This includes scheduling all preliminary exams imaging studies and other tests in a timely fashion and then gathering results for physician review.
- Coordinate patient visits within specialty program that requires more complex coordination of care across departments and/or multiple locations departments institutions and/or entity lines of service and multiple systems.
Patient Scheduling:
- EPIC schedule appointments in EPIC.
- Schedule new and followup clinic appointments and assist in canceling and rescheduling of clinics for providers who have a nonschegistrar as their MOC.
- Collect insurance information and complete registration in EPIC.
- Answer more complex questions from patients about billing and refer to Client Physician Billing Services and/or JHH Patient Financial Services.
- Support the physician with insurance preauthorization and single case agreement processes by submitting necessary clinical information as instructed by the physician.
- Coordinate followup office visits by providing information about treatment and testing locations. Schedule lab tests and other procedures and/or coordinates with other areas to complete scheduling process.
- When physicians clinic is cancelled call patient to reschedule physician and/or testing appointments pertaining to that visit.
- If requested by physician complete courtesy calls to patients to remind them of appointment arrival times and answer questions about location parking what to bring etc.
- All information entered into EPIC will be subject to evaluation quality controls and performance management standards.
Provide administrative support for medical matters on behalf of physicians:
- Answer incoming call from patients and provide information to patients as appropriate
- Routinely check voice mail and return calls to patients within 24 hours.
- Coordinate with patient and/or referring physician to obtain outside medical records.
- Ensure that all relevant outside medical records are received and scanned into Epic in advance of clinic.
- Ensure that physician gets medical records in advance per protocol as appropriate.
- Refer patient to appropriate resources/clinical areas.
- Send out letters and post op information to referring physicians if needed.
- Send out confirmation letters to patients when appointment is scheduled in less than 2 week timeframe as needed.
- Receive from physician completed and signed forms requested by the patient such as: Disability Family Medical Leave Workers Compensation Medical Assistance Application MVA etc. All completed forms should be scanned into EPIC and send original to the patients for their records.
- Review clinic schedules and make adjustment as appropriate
Other activity processed in EPIC:
- Enter patient phone messages and route to physician.
- Print and send patient letters as necessary
- Document inbound/outbound phone messages to patients
- Pend RX refills requested and route to physician
- Pend orders based on defined Practice Preferences.
- Inbasket Check messages daily and respond as directed by department policy.
Provide information to patients:
- Reinforce information for office visits (e.g. scheduled dates of service information to bring to the visit driving instructions where to park etc.
- Act as a liaison for patient coordinating future consultations diagnostics tests or procedures.
- Able to answer more complex questions with accuracy and provide up to date insurance information found on Client Managed Care website.
- Facilitate scheduling of lab tests and other procedures. Determine appropriate schedule for clinical appointments based on physician schedule and does three way call to hand off patient to call center.
- Prescription refills
- Gather information to pend RX request and route to physician.
- Assist as needed with insurance authorizations for nonformulary medications.
Coordination of Surgical Cases:
- Work with surgical scheduling coordinator to post all OR cases.
- Verify that the posting sheet is completed and signed by the surgeon and scanned within EPIC.
- Send out surgical packet to patient with preop instructions.
- Verify all documents are received and scanned appropriately into EPIC prior to date of surgery.
- If applicable prepare to support clinic activities from home in case of Client closure (install virtual desktop and keep electronic reference lists as needed and make sure you have cell or home phone numbers for physicians supervisors and clinic manager).
Academic/General Administrative Support:
- Provide general administrative support to one or more physicians
- Answer office phone schedule meetings/maintains calendar for physicians make travel arrangements maintains filing system (copy or scan as indicated).
- Assist with preparation of correspondence reports posters and related documents
- Compiles information for reports grant applications manuscripts etc.
- Orders stock and maintains office supplies
- May coordinate large meetings and/or seminars (e.g. arrange logistics for speakers meeting space refreshments invitations)
- May assist with preparation of sponsored project material
- Process reimbursements per department protocol as applicable.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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