Perioperative OR Scheduler — Flexible Hours & Impact

Cook County Health; Illinois; On-site; USD 39,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

Pension Plan

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Cook County Health seeks an experienced Perioperative OR Scheduler at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in the Operating Room Nursing department. The role requires coordinating surgical schedules across perioperative services, nursing, anesthesia, and revenue cycle with discretion and independence.

Under the director's supervision, you will maintain the surgical queue, confirm cases, and participate in daily huddles, ensuring accurate CPT coding and timely communication with surgeons and staff.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or G.E.D certificate is required.
• Two (2) years of experience using an electronic health record and running multiple programs is required.
• Two (2) years of experience working with coding software for surgical procedure orders is required
• Two (2) years of experience working with Cerner, SurgiNet, eCare, and Electronic Document Management is required
• Three (3) years of experience working with surgical, nursing, and anesthesia teams and scheduling OR procedures is required

Responsibilities

• Serves as a main resource to physicians for Operating Room (OR) scheduling
• Maintains surgical queue daily
• Cancels and reschedules cases from the surgery scheduling queue
• Participates with Perioperative Services director and revenue cycle in weekly meetings
• Files daily surgical schedules
• Works with Prior Authorization, Finance, and Revenue Cycle to obtain authorization for the patients from the insurance company and/or hospital
• Attends daily OR scheduling huddles with Perioperative leadership as required
• Maintains surgeons block schedules for all surgical and robotic cases
• Answers phone calls, emails, and Tiger connect to confirm surgical cases in a timely manner
• Works with Anesthesia to ensure that OR and Anesthesia have adequate staff to fulfill the needs of the surgical schedule
• Interacts with surgeons and staff to provide timely accurate surgical information
• Ensures customer focused and efficient phone communication with surgeons, residents, Anesthesia, Nursing leadership, and ancillary departments
• Assists with scheduling and checking in Cath lab patients when needed
• Follows all written protocols and procedures of OR schedule
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to emergent and urgent situations and protocols regarding the surgical schedule
• Identifies scheduling barriers and implements solutions to improve scheduling results based on pre-determined goals
• Adheres to policies regarding safety, and HIPAA guidelines
• Schedules patients for present and future surgeries in the electronic system per surgeon block
• Works with OR control desk to ensure patient has correct encounter on day of procedure
• Ensures accuracy of encounter documentation by surgeon
• Checks the Pre-Procedural Testing (PPT) clerk tab in SurgiNet to ensure accuracy of surgeon to surgical service
• Ensures accuracy of surgical case trays and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes
• Runs/checks patients’ insurance for accuracy
• Ability to remove patients from schedule if financial process has not been completed and places in a holding queue
• Sends auto-notification to surgeons via EMR, email, and Tiger connect
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

Electronic health records

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Cerner

SurgiNet

eCare

Electronic Document Management

Job description

Cook County Health seeks an experienced Perioperative OR Scheduler at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in the Operating Room Nursing department. The role requires coordinating surgical schedules across perioperative services, nursing, anesthesia, and revenue cycle with discretion and independence.

Under the director's supervision, you will maintain the surgical queue, confirm cases, and participate in daily huddles, ensuring accurate CPT coding and timely communication with surgeons and staff.