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Cardiac Procedure Scheduler

Baptist Health Care

Pensacola, Florida

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Anesthesiology, Call Centers, Cardiology, Communication Skills, Computer Systems, Content Management Systems (CMS), Customer Support/Service, Demographics, Fax Machines, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Health Maintenance, Healthcare, Healthcare Customer Service, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Reimbursement, Hospital, Industry Standards, Industry/Trade Analysis, Insurance, Medical Billing, Medical Coding, Medical Diagnosis, Medical Office, Medical Records, Medical Terminology, Medical Treatment, Metrics, Nonprofit, Organizational Skills, Orthopedics, Outpatient Care, Postanesthesia, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Primary Care, Quality of Life, Regulatory Requirements, Reimbursement, Schedule Development, Sports Medicine, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Surgical Procedures, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Planning, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Pensacola, Florida
POSTED
30+ days ago
JOB DESCRIPTION

The Cardiac Procedure Scheduler is responsible for scheduling patients for surgical services and outpatient diagnostic services for patients within the Baptist Health Care System. The primary role of this position includes scheduling via phone, faxes and electronic orders received through order facilitator from the ordering physician's office. This position adheres to and ensures all of Baptist's surgical guidelines are followed when scheduling surgery cases. Additional responsibilities include maintaining the surgery schedule, processing surgery reschedules and cancellations, scheduling other outpatient diagnostic procedures and providing excellent customer service to patients, physicians' office staff, physicians and ancillary service departments. This position coordinates with the insurance verification and precertification teams and other related patient access teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Proficient in scheduling in all modalities within the ORMIS surgery scheduling system and the SCI-schedule maximizer system.
  • Proficient in utilizing all functionality of SCI-order facilitator, including monitoring and processing of incoming fax queue.
  • Proactively works with surgeons' offices to fill any open times in the surgery schedule, reorganizing the schedule to accommodate office needs where possible.
  • Proficient in monitoring schedules for Main OR, SOP, PACU within the ORMIS surgery scheduling system and identifying compression opportunities on a daily basis. Proficient in scheduling in all modalities within outpatient diagnostic scheduling system.
  • Maintains Baptist Health Care goals of scheduling, registration accuracy, insurance verification, pre-registration, pre-certification, up-front collections, and other healthcare industry standards or trends in which the call center metrics of measurement is based. (Length of call; quality of call; accuracy of patient demographics and scheduling information).
  • Understands fully all functionality of all PASS Software Systems utilized. HealthQuest HIS, Schedule Maximizer, ORMIS, TransUnion MedConnect and TransUnion ClearQuote.
  • Proficient in coordination between scheduling team, anesthesia services, related departmental personnel and device vendors for scheduling of specific complex services (Open Hearts, Total Joints, L&D).
  • Obtains accurate demographic and reimbursement related information and enters it into the applicable computer system.
  • Understands all regulatory agency requirements (i.e. Joint Commission, HIPPA, EMTALA, OIG, and CMS, etc.) as it relates to software under PASS' management.


QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education
  • High School Diploma or Equivalent Required

Minimum Work Experience
  • 0-1 year Healthcare revenue cycle experience (scheduling, patient access, financial assistance, insurance billing, patient and/or insurance collections, reimbursement, health care customer service, payer contracting, or coding) Required

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
  • Medical Terminology
  • Written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of medical coding.
  • Office applications: email, fax module, and scan PDF.
  • Specific applications to use PC applications to achieve work goal.
  • Ability to work in fast paced work environment.
  • Organization skills.
  • Time Management skills to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to interpret insurance coverage and reimbursement.
  • Excellent customer service and coordinate patient needs with various service levels.
  • Ability to demonstrative the following: conform to standards, patient privacy, .


ABOUT US

Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includesthree hospitals, four medical parks,Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.

Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law. Certain positions may require a Level 2 Background check through AHCA. Additional informat

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