SSM Health
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Referral Coordinator
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
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Role Description
This role involves coordinating provider referrals, pre-certifications, and pre-authorizations for managed care insurance plans.
- Attends in-services provided by various health plans.
- Travels to off-site locations as necessary.
- Gathers necessary clinical information and processes referrals, pre-certification, pre-determinations, and pre-authorizes according to insurance plan requirements.
- Logs, tracks and reviews managed care approvals and denials.
- Responds in a timely manner to last minute/emergency referrals or additional codes performed during a procedure, or procedural changes for pre-authorizations.
- Verifies insurance coverage, benefits and creates price estimates, reverifications as needed (e.g., first of the month reverifications for managed Medicaid's).
- Works collaboratively with insurance companies, providers and staff to ensure plan requirements have been met prior to patient services being rendered in order to maximize reimbursement.
- Preregisters patients for appointments.
- Schedules patients for appointments appropriately.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
- One year experience required
Requirements
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: instant access to earned, unpaid base pay through DailyPay (fees may apply).
- Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
Job Requirements
- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
- One year experience required
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: instant access to earned, unpaid base pay through DailyPay (fees may apply).
- Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.