Practice Coordniator 3

University-of-California---SAN-Francisc; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Medical Center seeks a Practice Coordinator to be the public face of the Practice and to support operations and customer service recovery efforts. The role coordinates CRM messages, telephone encounters, referrals, and billing while maintaining clerical operations and communications.

The PC must synthesize practice knowledge to solve problems, handle complex transactions, and collaborate with clinical and management teams across UCSF campuses. EPIC experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent with four years related experience; or college degree and 6 months related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong computer skills and experience with multiple Office-type programs (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Ability to analyze situations, prioritize, and develop solutions.

Responsibilities

• Represent the administrative team as the public face of the Practice.
• Support practice operations and customer service recovery efforts.
• Maintain routine clerical operations and communications.
• Work with CRM messages, telephone encounters, referrals, and billing.

Skills

Customer service

Telephone encounters

Office software

Problem solving

Communication

Education

High School graduate

Tools

EPIC

Job description

As a patient-focused organization, UCSF Medical Center exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. UCSF Medical Center seeks faculty and staff that are committed to the values of professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence that are integral to our mission.

The Practice Coordinator is primarily responsible for representing the administrative team as the public face of the Practice and works closely with the administrative, clinical and management teams to support practice operations and customer service recovery and intervention efforts. Provides support to all functions of the administrative teams including but not limited to: CRM messages, telephone encounters, referrals, APeX in-baskets, scanning, filing, authorizations, and billing.

The PC is responsible for the maintenance of all routine clerical operations and communications. Adheres to the UCSF House and Telephone Standards and is sensitive to the needs of patients, staff and providers at all times.The PC is a team player who works closely with others and who is flexible in dealing with the changing priorities. Requires a self-reliant individual who synthesizes knowledge of practice operations in order to problem-solve, prioritize and facilitate complex transactions in the course of daily activities.

This position makes a difference for patients in an outpatient care unit by providing excellent customer service, facilitating and ensuring the accuracy of the information flow between medical, hospital staff and departments to maximize unit efficiency. The PC is required to work at any UCSF campus as needed and scheduled.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent with four years related experience; or college degree and 6 months related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Successfully passes fingerprinting protocol and is approved to be a cash collector if applicable.
• Strong computer skills, including basic keyboarding skills, and experience with at least two Office-type software programs (i.e., Outlook, Word and Excel). Proven ability to navigate through multiple patient records systems. Able to sit at a computer terminal with telephone headphones for extended period of time.
• Ability to analyze situations, prioritizes, and develops solutions and makes recommendations.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to use good judgment and work independently, at times under the pressure of deadlines
• Ability to access situations prioritizes workload, develop solutions and make recommendations.
• Excellent customer service and communication/interpersonal skills, both over the telephone and directly.
• Able to sit at a computer terminal with telephone headphones for extended periods of time.
• Basic math skills required.
• Proven ability to deal with a wide variety of individuals;
• Ability to deal sensitively and effectively with patients.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong writing skills to include the ability to compose, edit, and proof a wide variety of documents.
• Demonstrated administrative/office coordination skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical practice terminology.
• Within six months of start date, based upon completion of training, the Supervisor, completes the proficiency checklist with the employee. This includes the following areas if applicable
  • Referrals (Incoming referral entry) and handling all referral WQs
  • Schedule Surgeries
  • Work applicable work queues
  • Enter/edit outside test results
  • Messaging (CRM) if applicable
  • 2nd calls in CRM if applicable
  • Telephone encounters
  • My open encounter
  • In- Basket Messages ( IBM)
  • Route Patient advice request to providers (My Chart)
  • Patient Schedule (My Chart)
  • Letters
  • IBM Pools
  • Patient Registration
  • Check in/out process
  • Scanning

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in health care (may include medical, dental or veterinary) in the following areas: patient scheduling, insurance verification, medical record data abstraction, or patient financial services.
• Prior experience with appointment, ancillary service or surgical scheduling or a combination of all three.
• Bi-lingual or multi-lingual capability (Spanish, Cantonese, and Russian) strongly preferred.
• Prior experience with EPIC.

Job Info

• Job Identification 6718
• Job Category Ambulatory Care Clinics or Ctr
• Degree Level High School Graduate
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Shift Length 8 hours
• Budgeted Job Salary Range 36.03 - 51.60
• Bargaining Unit CX
• Employee Class Career
• FLSA Status Non-exempt
• Job Code and Payroll Title 004818 | PRACTICE CRD 3