Description

Join our team at the Department of Ophthalmology and provide essential administrative support for the Retinal Disorders & Ophthalmic Genetics clinic in Westwood! Your role will be pivotal in ensuring smooth patient care coordination.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Obtain authorizations and referrals for tests, injections, and office visits.

• Schedule patient appointments.

• Register new patients.

• Analyze patient medical notes to extract relevant details and ensure compliance with insurance requirements.

• Review prescription refills and submit for approval.

• Provide support in the patient check in/out process.

Salary Range: $24.57-34.87 Hourly

Qualifications

Required:

• Knowledge of medical terminology.

• Knowledge of various insurance plans such as PPOs, HMOs, EPOs, Medicare and Medi-cal.

• Skill in establishing, coordinating and maintaining patient and administrative files.

• Ability to maintain a friendly, caring demeanor with patients.

• Skill in operating computer terminal for processing and accessing patient data.

• Ability to act as liaison between physician and patients and their families, using good verbal and written communication skills.

• Typing skills to prepare correspondence with speed/accuracy.

• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine medical and business correspondence.

• Skill in setting priorities which accurately reflect relative importance of job responsibilities.

• Ability to work independently and follow through with assignments with minimal (or no) direction from supervisor.

• Ability to coordinate activities to guarantee timely completion of teamwork (usually under high pressure).

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

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