Secretary IntakeScheduler FGP Neurology East Meadow

OUR CARE MATTERS.

When you join the Kindred at Home team, you become part of something bigger. We are the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services. Our team delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care. Now more than ever, people in your community need in-home healthcare.

Our team helps to keep them safely at home, during moments that matter most to them. Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families.

OUR EMPLOYEES MATTER.

We believe a world-class patient experience is enabled by an exceptional employee experience. And, committed to fostering an amazing employee experience at Kindred  people are our greatest resource and asset, and we are committed to helping our employees thrive and fulfill their personal and professional goals.

WE

OFFER:

• Competitive pay and 401k
• Healthy Steps Wellness
• Healthcare Plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• Centers of Excellence Program
• Educational Assistance
• Clinical ladder for professional credentialing and advancement
• Leadership development
• Talent focused Framework
• Targeted personal and career development planning

As an INTAKE COORDINATOR, you will:

• Receive/respond to incoming calls from referral sources or potential patients, exchange information to identify patient needs, and determine the Company’s ability to meet them.
• Record the outcome of calls either manually or in an automated manner, make follow-up calls as necessary, and identify alternative community service resources when solutions are not available.
• Perform initial telephone screening to determine patients’ appropriateness for home care services with referral sources. Advise branch staff of patient acceptance and provide all relevant information to ensure patients’ smooth transition to home care.
• Contact referral sources to advise of referral status, and provide to the clinical team who will deliver the services requested.
• Identify potential payer sources, verify benefits with payer sources (as required by department organizational structure), negotiate rates and obtain initial authorizations and frequency of visits from case managers. Establish primary payers and document conversations with payer sources.
• Access national or regional account information, including the names of accounts and terms of the contracts as appropriate and communicate these conversations to branch and intake department staff as needed. Work with Intake team, branch staff, and patients to identify potential solutions as problems are identified with payer sources.
• Monitor and track referral sources’ satisfaction levels. Communicate customer service issues to up-line Intake and branch staff as appropriate.

Required Skills

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of three years health care delivery or related business experience
• Strong knowledge of medical terminology and a customer service focus
• Knowledge of insurance reimbursement process
• Effective data entry and word processing, problem-solving, human relations, and oral/written communications skills

Required Experience

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Check out our video to geta glimpse of a day in the life of our Home Health team
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of three years health care delivery or related business experience
• Strong knowledge of medical terminology and a customer service focus
• Knowledge of insurance reimbursement process
  
  Effective data entry and word processing, problem-solving, human relations, and oral/written communications skills