Scheduler Authorization Representative - **Internal UMC Employees**

University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC); Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) in Las Vegas seeks an experienced patient access coordinator to manage scheduling, registration, and insurance authorizations, ensuring timely reimbursement for hospital services.

The role requires high school completion and 1–2 years of admitting/discharge or scheduling experience, familiarity with Epic Systems, and strong customer service skills to interact with patients and providers.

Qualifications

• Equivalent to graduation from high school with two years Admitting/Discharge experience in a hospital setting, or one year in surgery scheduling, or one year in scheduling/authorization in a physician's office.
• Experience with medical terminology and hospital processes.
• Ability to verify benefits and authorizations and communicate clearly with patients.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for patient scheduling and registration.
• Obtain authorization and re-authorization for services.
• Verify insurance benefits and eligibility and estimate patient financial responsibility.
• Coordinate appointments and maintain accurate patient records.

Skills

Scheduling

Insurance verification

Customer service

Communication

Education

High school diploma

Tools

Epic Systems

Job description

Position Summary

EMPLOYER-PAID PENSION PLAN (NEVADA PERS)

COMPETITIVE SALARY & BENEFITS PACKAGE

**INTERNAL UMC EMPLOYEES**

As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada’s highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients.

UMC is a Level I Trauma Center, home of the ONLY Verified Burn Center, and Transplant Center. In 2026, we became the FIRST and ONLY Magnet®-Recognized hospital in the state, reflecting UMC's nursing professionalism, teamwork, and superiority in patient care.

Position Summary

Serves as the primary point of contact for patient scheduling, registration, and ensuring timely authorization form insurance carriers to optimize the hospitals revenue cash flow. Coordinating schedules (i.e. appointments) for patients and providers. Collects, verifies and updates patient demographic and guarantor information. Verifies insurance benefits/eligibility, manages referrals runs patient estimate, collects copays and patient estimated out of pocket expenses and appropriate. Performs appointment scheduling, registration and customer services duties. Obtains authorization and re-authorization as needed, for both professional and facility services as well as notification for inpatient stays.

Job Requirement

Education/Experience

Equivalent to graduation from high school and two (2) years Admitting Discharge experience in a hospital setting or one (1) year surgery scheduling experience or one (1) year experience working in a physicians office performing scheduling/authorization activities.

Additional Position Requirements

Required Additional Qualifications

• At least one (1) Year of registration experience.
• At least two (2) years of Insurance Verification Experience.
• At least one (1) year of experience with Epic Systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Notice of Admission experience.
• At least two (2) years of experience with submitting authorizations.

Knowledge Of:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical Requirements

Scheduling and authorization procedures; medical terminology; laws, rules, and regulations governing area of assignment; financial system and insurance requirements; commercial and governmental payers, Medicare plans; CPT, ICD 10 procedure coding; Medicare rules and regulations; department and hospital safety practice and procedures; patient rights; age specific patient care practices; infection control policies and practices; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures.

Skill In:

Communicating effectively with physicians, patients, and other employees; customer services; computerized scheduling system; verifying benefits and eligibility; forms and applications according to laws and guidelines in area of assignment; preparing technical and statistical reports; performing technical, specialized office support work; using initiative and judgement within established procedural guidelines; setting priorities and meeting critical deadlines; using computers and related software applications; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions:

Mobility to work in a typical clinical setting and use standard office equipment, stamina to remain seated for extended periods of time and maintain concentration, vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen, and hearing and speech to communicate effectively in person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or an eligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.