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Posted: 02-Nov-24
Location: San Marcos, Texas
Salary: Open
Categories:
Internal Number: 214915
Summary:
Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room facilitates a welcome and easy access to the facility and is responsible for establishing an encounter for any patient who meets the guidelines for hospital service. The Coordinator ensures that all data entry is accurate, including demographic and financial information for each account. The Coordinator is responsible for the successful financial outcome of all patient services. The Coordinator communicates directly with patients and families, physicians, and nurses. This position requires professional appearance, behavior, and good communication skills, along with dependability, flexibility, and teamwork.
This advanced-level position is designed to promote the demonstrated knowledge and competency of the Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to demonstrate the ability to use good judgment in making independent decisions to resolve customer issues in all routine operations.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital ? San Marcos, which originated in 1923 as Hays County Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Memorial Hospital, opened at its current Wonder World Drive location in 1983. Our staff of more than 700 Associates works with more than 300 active and consulting physicians to provide quality services to patients and their families. For more than 20 consecutive years, we have been named The Best Hospital in Hays County in the annual "Best of Hays" publication released by the San Marcos Daily Record. In addition to interventional cardiac services, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital ? San Marcos is a Certified Chest Pain Center and an accredited Primary Stroke Center. We lead the region in da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery and offers a variety of specialty care services including medical imaging, rehabilitation, hospice, women?s services and more.
Responsibilities:
?Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
SCHEDULING
?Obtains and accurately inputs all required data elements for scheduling and registration, including patient demographics, financial information, guarantor information, and relevant notes associated with the encounter.
?Data fields include but are not limited to: address, employment, insurance info, nearest relative, guarantor, insurance plan, admitting diagnosis, working diagnosis, and physician information.
?Prioritizes and completes scheduling in a consistent, courteous, professional, accurate, and timely manner.
?Review the schedule to ensure accuracy.
?Ensures each patient is assigned only one medical record number.
?Select the appropriate patient type based on the department and services required.
?Documents in account notes.
?Ensures orders are received and are consistent with tests/procedures.
?Confirms schedule with each physician daily; confirms a null schedule.
CUSTOMER FOCUS
?Effectively meets customer needs, builds productive customer relationships, and takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
?Greets patients courteously and professionally.
?Calls patients by name.
?Ask patients if they may have special needs.
?Represents the Surgery department in a professional, courteous manner at ALL times.
?Works with other departments to resolve Scheduling issues in a timely and professional manner.
ERRORS
?Makes minimal errors in performing scheduling/insurance verification See Error Policy and Procedure for target error rate percentage.
?Utilizes education information to reduce error rates.
?Requests additional education information when necessary.
?Demonstrates ability to select correct insurance plans.
EDUCATION
?Provides focused education for staff as needed.
?Coordinate new hire training (if needed)
?Assure Healthstream education is completed timely.
?Attends the majority of Direct Connects
OTHER
?Required to assist the hospital in the event of an internal or external disaster.
?Supports the flexible needs of the department to accommodate patient volume in all areas of the hospital. This may require assignment to another area of the department, and shift change.
?Supports the department in achieving established performance targets.
?Completes required training as needed.
?Performs all other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
A. Education/Skills
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- Associate degree preferred with emphasis in Health/business-related field.
B. Experience
- 6 months of scheduling experience preferred.
Work Schedule:
Varies
Work Type:
Full Time
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