
Intake/Scheduling Coordinator
- Southfield, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Coordinates all daily patient referral and intake operations.
- Ensures compliance with all state, federal, and referral/intake regulatory requirements for home health and hospice.
- Assists with the implementation of improved work methods and procedures to ensure patients are admitted in accordance with policy.
- Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral sources.
- Ensures seamless transition of patients to home care by providing preparation for home care, plan of care initiation, and coordination of care with multiple service providers and agency team.
- Ensures maximum third party reimbursement through participation in insurance verification and authorization processes.
- Provides feedback during strategic planning including identifying opportunities for additional or improved services to meet customer needs.
- Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of Agency contractual relationships and ensures that patients are admitted according to contract provisions.
- Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of community resources and assists referral sources in accessing community resources should services not be provided by Agency.
- Assists with weekly posting and maintenance of patient visit schedule under direction of Executive Director and Clinical Service Coordinator.
- Assists with orientation of new employees as requested.
- Performs liaison services as required assigned by the Executive Director
- Participates in the after-hours on-call schedule as assigned by the Clinical Service Coordinator.
- At least three to five years’ experience in health care preferably in home care.
- Knowledge of home health and hospice regulations, eligibility, and private payer practices.
- Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.
- Demonstrates autonomy, organization, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.
- Medical office
- Home Health
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Do you have knowledge of home health and hospice regulations, eligibility, and private payer practices?
- Do you have experience scheduling team clinicians who do not report to a site daily?
- Kinnser: 1 year (Preferred)
- ECIN/Careport: 1 year (Preferred)
- Insurance verification: 1 year (Preferred)
- intake coordinator: 1 year (Preferred)