Answer phones and redirect callers to appropriate area.
Schedule new and return appointments, ancillary testing and surgeries.
Prepare all necessary documents and forward to appropriate departments FMLA, Disability, EDD and worker’s compensation forms as needed.
Verify insurance coverage and obtain authorizations for ancillary tests, and surgeries. Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reports, as requested.
Document in CareConnect all correspondence from patient and insurance companies.
Work authorization work ques for assigned Department Unit.
Explain charges to patients and assist patients with billing questions; communicate directly with PSS, the department billing company.
Gather charge documents and supporting materials for submission to billing company.
Complete charge document reconciliation reports. Provide daily, weekly and monthly reports, as requested.
Preparation for clinics including chart preparation; encounter all patients utilizing UCLA’s patient management system, updating demographic and insurance data as necessary.
Attend clinic to support physicians, as requested.
Serve as liaison between patients, physicians, nursing units and other UCLA departments.
Provide exceptional customer service while interacting with patients, physicians, nursing units, other UCLA departments and referring physicians.
Allocate patient records, reports, correspondence, and other material to the correct files; establish new files as needed.
Prepare medical letters for patients as directed by the physician (leave request, return to work, etc..)
Other duties, as assigned.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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