Job Description:
The Pre-Access Authorization Specialist I is responsible for accurately verifying and completing insurance eligibility, securing prior authorization and managing authorization related denials to ensure patient financial health.Posting Specifics
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- Shift Details: Monday - Friday 11am to 7:30pm
- Additional Details: Shift differentials given for evenings, nights and weekends
Two weeks of in person training in Murray, Utah and then fully remote after training.
Essential Functions
- Confirms, enters, and/or updates required demographic data on patient and guarantor.
- Accurately verifies all pertinent patient-related insurance eligibility, benefits, authorization; follow-up on appeals and denials when requested
- Contacts patient/provider when authorization is unsecured prior to scheduled date of service
- Effectively escalates issues which cannot be resolved independently
- Maintains departmental/individual work queues and reviews self-quality for due diligence
- Meets or exceeds departmental productivity, due diligence and quality standards
Skills
- Revenue Cycle
- Insurance Eligibility
- Office 365
- EMR Technology
- Customer service
- Time management
- Medical terminology
- Medical coding
- Accuracy
- Productivity
Qualifications
Required
- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare revenue cycle role utilizing authorization tools.
- Demonstrates basic understanding of medical terminology.
- Demonstrated experience in a customer service role.
- Demonstrated experience in a role requiring strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Demonstrates basic understanding of healthcare billing and coding procedures.
Preferred
- High School Diploma or Equivalent from an accredited institution. Education is verified.
- Two (2) years of healthcare revenue cycle experience.
- Two (2) years of experience in a customer-service related role.
- EPIC experience.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
- Frequent interactions with customers require employees to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
- For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Location:
TOSHWork City:
MurrayWork State:
UtahScheduled Weekly Hours:
40The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$18.85 - $25.61We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare revenue cycle role utilizing authorization tools
- Basic understanding of medical terminology
- Demonstrated experience in a customer service role
- Demonstrated experience in a role requiring strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Basic understanding of healthcare billing and coding procedures
- High school diploma or equivalent from an accredited institution
- Two years of healthcare revenue cycle experience
- Two years of customer-service-related experience
- EPIC experience
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