Therapy Center Admissions & Finance Coordinator

Covenant-Health; Lenoir City (TN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Covenant Health Fort Loudoun Medical Center in Lenoir City, TN seeks an Admissions Coordinator for the Therapy Center. You will coordinate admission functions for outpatient services, verify benefits, and serve as a financial liaison between patients and payors.

Role focuses on high-volume clinics, maintaining accurate patient records, coordinating authorizations, and ensuring smooth registration, scheduling, and discharge processes while upholding quality standards.

Qualifications

• Four (4) years’ experience with case management, business office, admissions or medical records.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Two (2) year admitting procedures and insurance providers required.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and fosters effective public relations with patients, families, referral sources, third party payors, and staff.
• Serves as primary position for answering phone calls relating to registration, schedule, charges and accounts.
• Collaborates with clinicians regarding admission processes, conferences, documentation, and reimbursement issues.
• Verifies benefits and pre-certifies all outpatient admissions with insurance carriers. Enters information into account notes. Assists in obtaining authorizations as needed.
• Assesses alternative payment arrangements for or explains co-payments to patient and/or family prior to admission.
• Tracks Medicare certifications/recertifications for physician signature and authorization.
• Coordinates assignment of new admissions. Registers, re-registers and discharges patients from the system. Compiles and distributes chart to therapists.
• Maintains staff schedules and runs charges daily. Audits charge function on daily and monthly basis.
• Tracks, collects and documents patient co-pays. Prepares copays and report for transport to KBOS.
• Tracks, documents and coordinates with patients/therapists therapy cap limits.
• Serves as financial liaison between business office, reimbursement coordinator and patient/family.
• Audits daily discharge and re-admit report to ensure all patient charts are accounted for. Compiles, organizes and prepares medical records for transport and scanning.
• Maintains flowboard for active and discharged patient charts and keep records of charts sent to medical records.
• Participates in account audits and appeals.
• Performs data collection, trending, and reporting of departmental statistics/information as assigned.
• Edits payroll for staff as assigned.
• Maintains departmental files and records for budget reports, invoices, and time sheets.
• Provides continuing education for staff regarding regulatory and payor policy changes. Maintains expert status in the aforementioned.
• Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Medical terminology

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Covenant Health Fort Loudoun Medical Center in Lenoir City, TN seeks an Admissions Coordinator for the Therapy Center. You will coordinate admission functions for outpatient services, verify benefits, and serve as a financial liaison between patients and payors.

Role focuses on high-volume clinics, maintaining accurate patient records, coordinating authorizations, and ensuring smooth registration, scheduling, and discharge processes while upholding quality standards.