Hospital Discharge & DME Liaison

Lincare-085e31c; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincare is seeking a Liaison to interact daily with hospital case managers to deliver and set up O2 portability, nebulizers, and small DME for patient discharge.

You will educate providers on insurance criteria and documentation, coordinate with centers for home setup, and ensure paperwork is completed for billing. Heavy emphasis on communication and compliance with Medicare guidelines.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication with patients, physicians, and hospital staff on a daily basis.
• Gain knowledge of basic Medicare coverage guidelines and documentation requirements.
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Write routine reports and correspondence.
• Speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Compute rate, ratio, and percent; interpret bar graphs.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Responsibilities

• Stock vehicle daily with necessary equipment, disposables, patient setup paperwork and marketing literature needed for that day.
• Make rounds to contact all case managers each day at each facility assigned to them to let them know they are at the facility should case managers identify a patient discharge equipment need.
• Communicate with center throughout the day on O2 discharges so that center can schedule SR to complete home set up of equipment.
• Understand and communicate coverage criteria to case managers and patients as applicable.
• Complete setup paperwork daily for all equipment delivered.
• Assist with getting CMNs and chart notes as requested by center daily required for billin

Skills

Communication skills

Medicare guidelines

Reading documents

Report writing

Public speaking

Basic math

Graph interpretation

Problem solving

Education

GED or equivalent

Job description

Lincare is seeking a Liaison to interact daily with hospital case managers to deliver and set up O2 portability, nebulizers, and small DME for patient discharge.

You will educate providers on insurance criteria and documentation, coordinate with centers for home setup, and ensure paperwork is completed for billing. Heavy emphasis on communication and compliance with Medicare guidelines.