Operating Room Scheduler & Patient Care Coordinator

CHRISTUS Health; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

CHRISTUS Health in San Antonio, TX seeks a Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to provide welcoming access and establish patient encounters, ensuring accurate demographic and financial data and contributing to the financial success of patient services.

This advanced role requires professional appearance, strong communication, dependability, and teamwork, with responsibilities spanning scheduling, data validation, and collaboration with physicians, nurses, and staff to maintain accurate records

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate degree preferred with emphasis in Health/business-related field.
• 6 months of scheduling experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• SCHEDULING
• Obtains and accurately inputs all required data elements for scheduling and registration, including patient demographics, financial information, guarantor information, and relevant notes associated with the encounter.
• Data fields include but are not limited to: address, employment, insurance info, nearest relative, guarantor, insurance plan, admitting diagnosis, working diagnosis, and physician information.
• Prioritizes and completes scheduling in a consistent, courteous, professional, accurate, and timely manner.
• Review the schedule to ensure accuracy.
• Ensures each patient is assigned only one medical record number.
• Select the appropriate patient type based on the department and services required.
• Documents in account notes.
• Ensures orders are received and are consistent with tests/procedures.
• Confirms schedule with each physician daily; confirms a null schedule.
• CUSTOMER FOCUS
• Effectively meets customer needs, builds productive customer relationships, and takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Greets patients courteously and professionally.
• Calls patients by name.
• Ask patients if they may have special needs.
• Represents the Surgery department in a professional, courteous manner at ALL times.
• Works with other departments to resolve Scheduling issues in a timely and professional manner.
• ERRORS
• Makes minimal errors in performing scheduling/insurance verification See Error Policy and Procedure for target error rate percentage.
• Utilizes education information to reduce error rates.
• Requests additional education information when necessary.
• Demonstrates ability to select correct insurance plans.
• EDUCATION
• Provides focused education for staff as needed.
• Coordinate new hire training (if needed)
• Assure Healthstream education is completed timely.
• Attends the majority of Direct Connects
• OTHER
• Required to assist the hospital in the event of an internal or external disaster.
• Supports the flexible needs of the department to accommodate patient volume in all areas of the hospital. This may require assignment to another area of the department, and shift change.
• Supports the department in achieving established performance targets.
• Completes required training as needed.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Associate degree preferred with emphasis in Health/business-related field

Job description

CHRISTUS Health in San Antonio, TX seeks a Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to provide welcoming access and establish patient encounters, ensuring accurate demographic and financial data and contributing to the financial success of patient services.

This advanced role requires professional appearance, strong communication, dependability, and teamwork, with responsibilities spanning scheduling, data validation, and collaboration with physicians, nurses, and staff to maintain accurate records