Summary
Job Description:
BHMG Primary Care Fern Valley Rd
Full Time Monday - Friday
The Referral Coordinator works with the patient and outside services to schedule specialty services under the order of the physician. The referral service provides appointments, patient contact by telephone and mail to verify date, time, location and any special instructions. The checkout service includes scheduling any appointments for follow-up care, including laboratory tests, follow up visits for laboratory results, next visit appointment and provide verbal and written appointment date and time and any special instructions.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The following is a summary of the major functions of this position. He or she may perform other duties, both major and minor, which may not be mentioned below, and specific functions may change from time to time.
- Coordinates referral requests as ordered by the physician for diagnostic testing and specialty office appointments from multiple locations
- Obtains and accurately enters patients’ demographic and insurance information
- Verifies patients’ insurance
- Obtains preauthorization and notification information from payer sources and notes accordingly
- Communicates procedure and appointment information to patient and requesting location
- Documents information for all procedures and appointments in the patient’s chart and HPP
- Reviews office and clinic charges for accuracy (i.e. CPT codes, modifiers and diagnosis)
Minium Experience
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- Clerical and computer experience preferred
Work Experience
Education
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
