UR Coordinator - Behavioral Health - PRN - Weekends

Position: UR COORDINATOR - Behavioral Health - PRN - Weekends
Responsibilities

Utilization Review (UR) Coordinator - PRN

Weekend Coverage

Peachford Hospital is a 246-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Dunwoody. We provide inpatient care for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors, in addition to partial hospitalization and other outpatient programs. Peachford has been providing compassionate care since 1973 and nearly 10,000 patients receive seek treatment here every year.

We are currently searching for an experienced UR Coordinator to work PRN on the weekends to ensure the hospital provides full coverage for our patients.

UR Coordinators proactively monitor the utilization of continuum services and optimize reimbursement. Having an understanding and an ability to communicate insurance information to others, including benefits coverage and levels of care offered will help to make you successful in this role.

What Will You Get To Do?

UR Coordinators are responsible for these and other duties:

* Work directly with Assessment and Referral Services to stay abreast of admissions and/or pending authorizations/pre-certifications.

* Conduct concurrent and extended stay reviews on appropriate day and/or specified time.

* Prepare and submit appeals to third party payors, effectively coordinating collection of all pertinent data to support the hospital and patient's position.

* Communicate pertinent third party payor issues to doctor and treatment team.

* Work independently in gathering information for reviews from the patient record, taking the initiative to seek information from members of the treatment team.

Peachford Hospital:
Bringing Life Into Balance.

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What Does Peachford Require for this Role?

A bachelor's degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience is required and previous inpatient/outpatient hospital experience is preferred. One year of prior healthcare, social services, mental health or addictive disease experience is also preferred.

What Happens Next?

After you apply online and submit your resume, a member of our recruiting team will review your qualifications and experience. If we are interested in scheduling an interview, someone will give you a call. You may log back on to this website to check the status of your application at any time.

About our parent company:
Universal Health Services (UHS):

As one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, our parent company, Universal Health Services (UHS), has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $11.6 billion in 2020. In 2021, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune;

in 2020, ranked #281 on the Fortune 500; and listed #330 in Forbes ranking of U.S.' Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 89,000 employees and through its subsidiaries operates 26 acute care hospitals, 334 behavioral health facilities, 39 outpatient facilities and free-standing Emergency Rooms located in 38 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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