CVI - Care Coordinator

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Patient/staff education includes prioritizing urgent patient calls in response to STAT appointments and urgent post-operative problems.
• Provide the ability for patients to be able to get questions answered quickly especially in urgent cases.
• Coordinating surgical & procedural care to include preoperative surgical & procedural education as well as post-operative care.
• Coordinate follow-up care for postoperative patients, which may include imaging, referrals to other specialists, and office visits with operating provider.
• Follows the physician into patient rooms to document the encounter including the history, review of systems, and physical exam.
• Updates the patient chart to reflect any changes or corrections to the past medical history, surgical history, social history, and medications as directed by the physician.
• Displays radiology images or other studies for physicians to review.
• Monitors all imaging studies and or testing to ensure they return in a timely manner. As well as letting the physician know of any delays, abnormal, and following up to completion.
• Maintains active knowledge of key billing and coding practices.
• Assist with surgery/procedural scheduling to include follow up on authorizations prior to surgery dates.
• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
• Community awareness of services offered.
• Educating other providers and the community of the types of patient care provided and procedures that are performed.
• Assist with communication between primary care and referring providers.

Direct Reports (supervised positions)

• N/A

Qualifications

Minimum Education Required

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Minimum Education Preferred

• Registered Nurse (RN)

Minimum Experience Required

• One (1) year of prior clinical experience

Minimum Experience Preferred

• Two (2) years of prior clinical experience

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong decision making and problem solving skills
• Ability to effectively communicate in an emergency situation
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clinic staff, hospital staff and physicians
• Strong technical/computer skills

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