Sr. Medical Office Coordinator (Surgery)

The Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 26,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University Department of Surgery is seeking a Sr. Medical Office Coordinator to coordinate activities for a multi-faceted clinical office and support physicians in patient care and scheduling.

Responsibilities include medical administrative support, patient scheduling, processing outside records in EPIC, handling prescription refills, and general academic/administrative duties, with a hybrid schedule on the School of Medicine campus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Three years progressively responsible medical office experience. Medical terminology required. Intermediate computer and proofreading skills required.
• Experience in the Johns Hopkins system strongly preferred.
• Additional education may substitute for one year of required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Responsibilities

• Medical Administrative Support: Professionally and efficiently handle incoming requests from patients and ensure that issues are resolved both promptly and thoroughly.
• Patient Scheduling: Schedule new and follow-up clinic appointments and assist in canceling and rescheduling of clinics. Collect insurance information, and complete registration in EPIC.
• Provide administrative support for medical matters on behalf of physicians: Answer in-coming call from patients and provide information to patients, as appropriate. Coordinate with patient and/or referring physician to obtain outside medical records. Ensure that physician gets medical records in advance per protocol as appropriate.
• Other activity processed in EPIC: Reinforce information for office visits; act as a liaison for patient coordinating future consultations, diagnostics tests, or procedures; facilitate scheduling of lab tests and other procedures.
• Assist with Prescription refills: Gather information and pend RX request and route to appropriate clinician; assist with insurance authorizations for non-formulary medications.
• Academic/General Administrative Support – As necessary: Answer office phone, schedule meetings, maintain calendars for physicians, travel arrangements, filing systems, and prepare correspondence.

Skills

Medical terminology

Computer skills

Proofreading

Patient interaction

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

EPIC

Job description

The Department of Surgery is seeking a Sr. Medical Office Coordinator to assist in coordinating activities and provide other support for a multi-faceted clinical office to ensure a smoothly functioning office and good patient relations. Interact with patients, patients’ families, referring physicians and third-party carriers with regard to patient-related issues. Work with others in a team environment. Provide administrative support for medical matters on behalf of physicians, as well as general academic/general administrative support.

Specific Duties And Responsibilities

Medical Administrative Support

• Professionally and efficiently handle incoming requests from patients and ensure that issues are resolved both promptly and thoroughly.
• Gather patient information, fulfill patient needs, educate patients, where applicable, to prevent the need for future contacts and document interactions in applicable systems.
• Provide quality service and support in a variety of areas which may include, but not limited to scheduling, registration and care coordination.

Patient Scheduling

• Schedule new and follow-up clinic appointments and assist in canceling and rescheduling of clinics.
• Collect insurance information, and complete registration in EPIC.
• Answer questions from patients about billing and refer to JHU Physician Billing Services and/or JHH Patient Financial Services.
• Support the physician with insurance preauthorization and single case agreement processes by submitting necessary clinical information as instructed by the physician.
• Coordinate follow-up office visits by providing information about treatment, and testing locations. Schedule lab tests and other procedures, and/or coordinates with other areas to complete scheduling process.
• When physician’s clinic is cancelled, call patient to re-schedule physician and/or testing appointments pertaining to that visit.
• If requested by physician, complete courtesy calls to patients to remind them of appointment arrival times and answer questions about location, parking, what to bring, etc.
• All information entered into EPIC will be subject to evaluation, quality controls and performance management standards.

Provide administrative support for medical matters on behalf of physicians

• Answer in-coming call from patients and provide information to patients, as appropriate
• Routinely check voice mail and return calls to patients within 24 hours.
• Coordinate with patient and/or referring physician to obtain outside medical records. Ensure that all relevant outside medical records are received and scanned into Epic in advance of clinic. Ensure that physician gets medical records in advance per protocol as appropriate.
• Refer patient to appropriate resources/clinical areas.
• Send out letters and post op information to referring physicians, if needed.
• Send out confirmation letters to patients when appointment is scheduled less than 2 weeks out or as needed.
• Receive from physician completed and signed forms requested by the patient such as: Disability, Family Medical Leave, Workers Compensation, Medical Assistance Application, MVA, etc. All completed forms should be scanned into EPIC and send original to patients for their records.
• Review clinic schedules, and make adjustment as appropriate

Other activity processed in EPIC

• Reinforce information for office visits (e.g. scheduled dates of service, information to bring to the visit, driving instructions, where to park, etc.
• Act as a liaison for patient, coordinating future consultations, diagnostics tests, or procedures.
• Up to date insurance information found on Johns Hopkins Managed Care website.
• Facilitate scheduling of lab tests and other procedures. Determines appropriate schedule for clinical appointments based on physician schedule and does three-way call to hand off patient to call center.

Assist with Prescription refills

• Gather information and to pend RX request and route to appropriate clinician.
• Assist as needed with insurance authorizations for non-formulary medications.
• Work with surgical scheduling coordinator to post all OR cases.
• Verify that the posting sheet is completed and signed by the surgeon and scanned within EPIC.
• Send out surgical packet to patient with pre-op instructions.
• Verify all documents are received and scanned appropriately into EPIC prior to date of surgery.

Academic/General Administrative Support – As necessary

• Answer office phone, schedule meetings/maintain calendars for physicians, make travel arrangements, maintain filing system (copy or scan as indicated).
• Assist with preparation of correspondence, reports, posters, and related documents.
• Compile information for reports, grant applications, manuscripts, etc.
• Order stock and maintain office supplies.
• May coordinate meetings on behalf of the physician.
• May assist with preparation of sponsored project material.
• Process reimbursements per department protocol as applicable.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent
• Three years progressively responsible medical office experience. Medical terminology required. Intermediate computer and proofreading skills required.
• Experience in the Johns Hopkins system strongly preferred.
• Additional education may substitute for one year of required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Classified Title: Sr. Medical Office Coordinator

Role/Level/Range: ATO 40/E/02/OE

Starting Salary Range: $18.65 - $34.75 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: M-F 8 - 4:30

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus

Department name: SOM Sur Acute Care/Trauma Surgery

Personnel area: School of Medicine