Intake Coordinator | Full Time | Sacred Heart

BEACON HOME HEALTH; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Sacred Heart Home Health is seeking an Intake Coordinator to manage the patient intake process, coordinate with patients and families, and ensure timely insurance verification and authorization. The role emphasizes policy compliance, relationship management with referral sources, and accurate data handling.

The position requires healthcare experience, ideally in home health or hospice referrals, with strong communication and autonomous work style.

Qualifications

• The Intake Coordinator must have healthcare experience, preferably in referrals/intake in a home health or hospice environment.
• A nursing background is preferred but not required.
• Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.
• Demonstrates autonomy, assertiveness, and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Directs all daily patient referral and intake operations including overseeing intake policies.
• Ensures compliance with state, federal, and Joint Commission requirements.
• Assists with implementing improved work methods to admit patients per policy.
• Maintains positive relationships with referral sources.
• Supports patient education and transition to home care; coordinates plan of care.
• Oversees insurance verification and authorization processes for maximum reimbursement.
• Shaping community perception of Sacred Heart Home Health as a high-quality provider.
• Gathers and reports referral statistics and trends.
• Keeps knowledge of home health contracts and ensures admissions align with provisions.
• Assists referral sources in accessing community resources when services are not provided.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Communication skills

Autonomy

Education

Nursing background preferred

Job description

I**. **** **JOB SUMMARY

The Intake Coordinator is responsible for managing all aspects of the patient intake process including communicating directly with patients and families, data entry, establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources, responding to customer requests and concerns, facilitating a daily intake stand up meeting and managing the insurance verification and authorization processes.

II. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Directs all daily patient referral and intake operations including providing assistance with oversight of the establishment and implementation of intake policies.
2. Ensures compliance with all state, federal, and Joint Commission referral/intake regulatory requirements.
3. Provides insight and assistance with the implementation of improved work methods and procedures to ensure patients are admitted in accordance with policy.
4. Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral sources.
5. Ensures seamless transition of patients to home care by assisting with oversight of patient education and preparation for home care, plan of care initiation and coordination of care with multiple service providers.
6. Ensures maximum third-party reimbursement through direct oversight of insurance verification and authorization processes.
7. Builds and monitors community and customer perceptions of Sacred Heart Home Health as a high- quality provider of services.
8. Gathers, collates, and reports referral statistics including key customer referral trends.
9. Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of Home Health contractual relationships and ensures that patients are admitted according to contract provisions.
10. Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of community resources and assists referral sources in accessing community resources should services not be provided by Sacred Heart Home Health.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by the employee of this job. The employee may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.

III.JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

1. The Intake Coordinator must have healthcare experience, preferably in referrals/intake in a home health or hospice environment.

2. A nursing background is preferred but not required.

3. Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.

4. Demonstrates autonomy, assertiveness, and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.

The employer for this position is stated in the job posting. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.