Operating Room Scheduling Specialist

CHRISTUS Children's; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The CHRISTUS Children's Hospital in San Antonio seeks a Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to ensure welcome access, establish encounters, and collect accurate patient demographics and financial data for each account. The Coordinator is responsible for the successful financial outcome of all patient services and communicates directly with patients, families, physicians, and nurses.

This advanced-level position requires professionalism, strong data-entry and scheduling skills, teamwork, and

Qualifications

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

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 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.

Skills

Scheduling

Data entry

Customer service

Communication

Education

High School diploma

Associate degree

Job description

The CHRISTUS Children's Hospital in San Antonio seeks a Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to ensure welcome access, establish encounters, and collect accurate patient demographics and financial data for each account. The Coordinator is responsible for the successful financial outcome of all patient services and communicates directly with patients, families, physicians, and nurses.

This advanced-level position requires professionalism, strong data-entry and scheduling skills, teamwork, and