Associate Patient Care Coordinator - Austin, United States - Optum

Optum

Verified Company

Austin, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives.

The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best.

Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale.

Join us to start
Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The
Associate Patient Care Coordinator is responsible for staffing all new patient admissions/referrals, scheduling of daily patient visits for clinicians, review, and submission of end of day schedules, ensuring completion of all weekend schedules, and reviewing daily schedules with field clinicians.

Supports the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) with maintaining daily contact with field clinicians and effectively communicating schedule changes to field clinicians.

Critical thinking is essential for reviewing weekly active patient census reports, scheduling patient discharge visits with appropriate field clinicians, scheduling patient re-certification visits, supervisory visits with the primary registered nurse, and appropriate job tasks for field clinicians per physician orders.

Regularly communicates with Intake Department personnel in reference to all new patient referrals and new physician orders for staffing with the appropriate field clinician.

Assists with the review and processing of patient discharge and therapy evaluations.

Collaborates with the Director of Nursing, Clinical Team Manager and Director of Home Health Operations to ensure all patients are staffed accordingly per physician orders.

Actively participates in the Agency's on-call rotation in the Home Health Team Coordinator role, approximately once per month to include holidays.

Schedule:
Monday

Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 9 AM 6 PM CST
Alternating

Office location: 8107 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for daily scheduling of all physician orders, new referrals, and schedules with appropriate field clinicians.
Reports new or pertinent patient information to field clinicians
Schedules per physician order all visits/tasks specific to each patient from the beginning to conclusion of directed patient care: supervisory visits, recertification visits, discharge visits, transfers, and posthospital visits and ensures accuracy
Updates clinician schedules frequently to remain in compliance with current physician orders
Communicates all new physician orders and new referrals with contract therapy staff
Assists CTMs with contacting field clinicians or relaying information in reference to patient care updates
Frequently communicates with management regarding unassigned patient visits to ensure all patients receive care within the timeframe required per physician orders
Responsible for adhering to the company policies to include time reporting policy, attendance policy, code of conduct, etc.
Crosstrained for all job tasks in Medical Records to include uploading of documentation in EMR, Start of Care (SOC) audits, reviews contract invoices and Print Que process
Prepares clinicians schedules and assign clinicians to patients based on the frequency and expected duration of prescribed treatments and therapies per physician order
Demonstrates exceptional customer service to all patients, clinicians, and family members
Reviews missed visits daily submitted by field clinicians to ensure visits are rescheduled accordingly, reviews schedule deviation report for accuracy
Updates patient information into the EMR when changes occur
Runs active census biweekly

- schedules discharges with field clinicians and appropriate tasks to ensure active census is accurate and up to date

Responsible for processing discharges/ensuring proper Notice of Medical Non-Coverage (NOMNC) in place before discharge is processed

- updating patients schedule to reflect discharge date and notifying medical records to archive patient's active chart

Responsible for scheduling per physician order and ensuring Re-Authorization Department has updated order in order to obtain authorization
Ensures therapy evaluations are reviewed and faxed to physician office daily to support coordination of care between the physician office and home health agency
Participates with oncall rotation for home health approximately one week per month to include shared holiday coverage
Perform general clerical duties in support of patient services. These include, but are not limited to, answering phones, copying, faxing, and reviewing incoming referral information for accuracy
Performs other job duties as assigned by the manager

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