Coordinator Surgical​/Financial Services | Urology | Day Shift

Overview

To deliver excellent patient-centered care by ensuring the scheduling, posting, pre-operative labs, medical work up, financial, and communication process is complete for patients having major and minor operative procedures. Incumbent will ensure that team members are verifying insurance coverage and benefits, obtaining prior authorizations, preparing pre-payment estimates and collection of these payments, in depth financial counseling and establishment of payment plans, obtaining sponsorship for uninsured, and updating demographic and financial data for UFHP and UF Health System.

• Screen the clinic and OR schedules working closely with the financial counselors to ensure all patient accounts are screened, block time is full and unused block returned to the OR for use. Work to establish internal processes that improve POS collections related to clinic visits and pre payments for elective surgery. Oversee processes for pre-payment estimates and collections and set goals with the team.
  
  Provide financial counseling and establishment of payment plans, obtain sponsorship for uninsured, and update demographic and financial data for UFHP and UF Health System.
• Independently monitor all departmental surgical calendars, effectively working with providers for full utilization and optimization of scheduled urology block time by filling any open time. Participate as a key team member in the planning, scheduling, communication and educating process between the physician, surgery scheduler, medical director, the patient, and the payer to produce a flawless process. Float to cover clerical staff at check-in, check-out and Fin Counselor.
  
  Oversee the ordering of clerical supplies and the clerical in basket messages. Monitor the missing charge report and clerical workques. Participate as the key communicator in the planning, scheduling, communication and educating process between the physician, the patient, and the payer to produce a flawless process.
• May be required to float to other practices or flex time, as needed, for staffing.

• High school graduate or equivalent. Three years of business/financial/physician practice experience required.
• Working knowledge of CPT and ICD 9/10 diagnosis coding required.
• Four-year degree may substitute for two years of financial/physician office experience.
• Associates degree or equivalent course work may substitute for one year experience.
• EPIC system knowledge preferred.
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem solving skills required.
• Incumbent must be comfortable collecting payments and counseling patients regarding financial matters in a professional manner.
• The ability to multitask, prioritize responsibilities, and function in a team environment are necessary attributes of the successful incumbent.

• Employees in this position:
  Will not operate vehicles for an assigned business purpose

NOTE:

A frequent driver is defined as one who uses his/her personal or Shands automobile a) at least once daily, b) at least five individual trips per week or c) drives, on average, over 150 miles per week in the performance of his/her job.

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