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Medical Scheduler
Job description
- Professionally interviews and schedules patients for outpatient service including preregistration.
- Coordinates patient schedules to maximize patient and physician satisfaction institution-wide.
- Communicates patient instructions and directions, physician order requirement, authorization/pre-certification/referral requirement to patients, physician office staff, and other SMHCS personnel.
- Maintains scheduling and pre-registration accuracy rate per department standards.
- Creates estimate for patient financial responsibility and collects co-insurance, co-payment, and deductible as indicated.
- Initiates process to assure the patient meets the hospital financial policies/guidelines for services to be rendered and transfers to appropriate departments for more complex situations.