Authorization Coordinator - (ZR_20145_JOB)
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Job Highlights
Job Highlights
- 40 hours per week
- Permanent work from home
- Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Florida Time with a 30-minute unpaid break
- Client Timezone: Florida
- Completes accurate and timely insurance verification.
- Completes accurate and timely third party prior payer authorization requests, including ensuring all necessary data elements needed for an authorization (e.g., CPT codes, diagnosis codes) are available.
- Ensures services scheduled by outside providers have approved authorization as required by payer and procedure to prior service.
- Communicates with patients, insurers and other appropriate parties pertaining to insurance verification and authorization.
- Provides clear documents for clearance /authorization to proceed with office visits and/or procedures
- Creates a positive patient experience by being polite, compassionate and professional.
- Provides cross-coverage and training when needed for other team members.
- Maintains productivity and quality performance expectations.
- Regular attendance is required to carry out the essential functions of the position.
- Reviews and meets ongoing competency requirements of the role to maintain the skills, knowledge and abilities to perform within scope role specific functions.
- The need to obtain authorization for daily visits, meaning, they will connect with primary care doctors according to the insurance they have and obtain an authorization
- Need to be able to communicate with staff on daily add Ons patients that are filled for cancelled appointments.
- Need to be able to put the correct copay amount for each patient in the appropriate slot for the staff to be able to collect for the daily visits.
- Need to be able to obtain authorizations for procedures on a daily base. Basically, the insurance coordinator needs to be at least 1 week out with obtaining all of the AUTH’s.
- The insurance coordinator needs to differentiate between policies, and they type of policy, HMO, PPO, POS, advantage plans and which one will require auth and which does not.
- Need to run insurance daily for changes in policies, active, inactive, grace period.
- Need to contact patients to obtain updated policies and run it.
- Previous experience in insurance verification preferred
- MUST HAVE WINDOWS OS
- Has experience in claims verification and submission
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and accurate data entry abilities
- Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient in basic computer skills and data entry
- Experience in US health insurance authorization
- HMO Coverage for eligible locations
- Permanent work from home
- Immediate hiring
- Steady freelance job