Polysomnographic Technologist Analyst

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sleep Center at Baptist Health Lexington is seeking a Registered Sleep Technologist to perform home sleep testing and in-lab studies (PSG, MSLT, MWT), ensuring accurate data collection and compassionate patient care.

This full-time daytime role includes patient registrations, authorizations, scheduling, and clerical support, while upholding HIPAA and quality standards to keep the Sleep Center running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Completion of a polysomnography program of at least one year or equivalent proficiency.
• Minimum six months experience as a polysomnographic technologist.
• Must hold or obtain RPSGT or CRT-SDS/RRT-SDS sleep credential.
• Active BLS certification and ability to work in a patient-facing role.

Responsibilities

• Follow PSG, PAP titration, MSLT, MWT, and HST protocols to collect accurate data.
• Ensure smooth operation of home sleep test programs and in-lab studies.
• Analyze data and generate concise, detailed summary reports.
• Verify patient demographics, insurance, and registrations to prevent duplicates.
• Schedule tests and appointments, and inform patients of details and costs.
• Handle calls, requests, and provide patient-centered support.
• Obtain precertifications, authorizations, and referrals for tests.
• Maintain HIPAA compliance and use Onbase, Right Fax, Epic, and Outlook.

Skills

Customer-focused

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Professional demeanor

Education

Polysomnography program (1 year+)

RPSGT certification

Tools

Onbase

Right Fax

Epic

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Summary

This role will be taking on all facets of home sleep testing (cleaning, disinfection, preparation, education, uploading/downloading, troubleshooting, problem solving & logging). Additionally, this role will serve as back-up for prior authorizations and registration as needed to keep department caught up.

Job Description

Polysomnographic Technologist Analyst Full-Time, Days

The Sleep Center team at Baptist Health Lexington is dedicated to providing high-quality support to patients undergoing sleep studies. As a Registered Sleep Technologist, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth operations in our Sleep Center through direct-care of patients for home sleep testing as well as in-lab testing such as PSG, MSLT and MWT as needed. Additionally, clerical duties, patient registrations, authorizations, and scheduling will also be expected. You will provide essential support to physicians, patients, and staff, ensuring patient care and organizational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Follow procedural protocols (such as PSG, PAP Titrations, MSLT, MWT, HST, parasomnia studies, oxygen titration, etc) to ensure collection of appropriate data.
• Ensuring smooth and continuous home sleep test program.
• Responsible for timely analysis of polysomnographic and home sleep tests and generating of concise, detailed summary reports.
• Verify patient demographics, insurance information, and process registrations, ensuring accuracy to avoid duplicate records.
• Review of patient's medical record to ensure appropriate test is being conducted.
• Schedule appointments, sleep studies, and follow-up appointments, ensuring patients are informed of their appointment details and financial responsibilities.
• Answer phone calls, respond to requests, and provide assistance, ensuring a positive experience for patients, physicians, and staff.
• Telephone confirmation of all appointments.
• Ensure all required precertifications, authorizations, and referrals are obtained for patient appointments and testing.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA guidelines, ensuring patient data integrity while using required software applications like Onbase, Right Fax, Epic, and Microsoft Outlook.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensures Required

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 6 months experience in sleep lab
• Ability to perform duties in a professional and customer-focused manner.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Basic knowledge of healthcare administration and medical terminology is a plus.
• Successful completion of a polysomnography program of no less than one year duration associated with a state licensed and/or a nationally accredited education facility; or equivalent experience and documented proficiency at all competencies required of a Polysomnographic Technologist.
• Minimum of six (6) months experience as a Polysomnographic Technologist.
• Must be a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), or Certified or Registered Respiratory Therapist with sleep disorders credential (CRT-SDS, RRT-SDS)
• Must maintain active Basic Life Support (BLS) training.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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