Patient Care Coordination Specialist

Mount Sinai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York seeks a Services Management Coordinator to help coordinate patient care across programs. You will serve as a liaison between physicians, nurses and care teams, ensuring smooth visits, transitions, and follow‑ups while providing administrative support to providers and care management.

Key duties include setting care goals with patients, documenting progress, obtaining authorizations, educating patients about program benefits, and helping improve processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 3 years’ experience in healthcare/customer service or relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Plays a lead role in the navigation of care and ensures that patients understand their overall program benefits as well as what they can expect the program to provide.
• Sets goals with patient and care team to coordinate care, documents goal in program dashboard/calendar tool. Follow ups to be tracked include visit status reminders, scheduled follow up and specialty appointments, authorization submitted for review.
• Ensures that all orders placed by the providers (internal and external) are authorized after confirming the service falls under the patients covered services.
• Services as the primary point of contact to education patients pharmacy benefits, and assist with obtaining prior authorizations when applicable. This may include: Submitting refill request/confirm patients preferred pharmacies; verify coverage.
• Organizes correspondence and future program plans for the patient based on program interactions in the electronic medical record as well as in the program benefits systems. This involves ensuring that a plan is made with next steps in the process.
• Offers extensive patient navigation between program visits and other encounters. This includes detailed discussion with the patient to review next steps and resources, facilitation of patient concerns review, questions or concerns related to coverage..
• Educates and communicates closely with the patients to ensure they have a full understanding of the benefits offered by the program. Patient education provided on all relevant program benefits.
• Provides recommendations for process improvement and services improvement aimed at improving patient experience, and participates in ongoing pilot programs to improve patient engagement.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Customer service

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York seeks a Services Management Coordinator to help coordinate patient care across programs. You will serve as a liaison between physicians, nurses and care teams, ensuring smooth visits, transitions, and follow‑ups while providing administrative support to providers and care management.

Key duties include setting care goals with patients, documenting progress, obtaining authorizations, educating patients about program benefits, and helping improve processes