IV Patient Care Coordinator /Nurse Billing

AdaptHealth, LLC • Toms River, NJ

86d

About The Position

The Home Infusion Patient Care Coordinator is responsible for scheduling clinical staff to visit patients. This may include Community Home Infusion Nursing, Adapthealth and/or Subcontracted Nursing. The Patient Care Coordinator is responsible for handling everyday administrative tasks required to ensure smooth operation and assisting the nursing department with patient scheduling, obtaining clinical notes, laboratory results and physician documents. Works closely with the pharmacy, nursing, transportation, sales, intake teams to determine schedule needs and availability to ensure appropriate prescriptions are being delivered and scheduled at the correct times and administered accurately.

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED required, Associate or bachelor’s degree a plus.
• Two (2) years’ experience in scheduler/coordinator position with a home health agency or infusion pharmacy or medical background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supports organization’s mission by striving for excellence in all aspects of their job with a focus on positive interpersonal relationships with co-workers
• Schedules new cases by scheduling nurses to meet patient infusion schedule needs.
• Schedules and reschedules all visits based on patients’ needs and authorizations.
• Runs reports including productivity, case count and missed visits.
• Ensures electronic verification visit are processed and sent timely.
• Works closely with Reimbursement to review list from private pay/managed care.
• Adheres to the organization’s policy regarding absenteeism and appearance.
• Ensures appropriate staffing is arranged for all patient care.
• Coordinates, monitors, and schedules patient care across all clinical areas.
• Coordinate scheduling needs with staffing availability to assigned team.
• Ensures Nurse/ nurse supervisor is aware of staffing needs and requirements.
• Communicates with patients, to schedule infusion based on prescription refills and refers any medication or illness related questions or concerns to a board licensed healthcare professional including but not limited to nurses, pharmacists, or supervised pharmacy interns.
• Responsible for interpreting physician's orders and scheduling according to orders.
• Provide accurate patient scheduling inconsideration of numerous factors including knowledge of time needed for drug regimens.
• Transfers referral data to selected Nurse or subcontractor.
• Enters all scheduling data into the computer system in a timely manner and ensures that data is accurate and complete.
• Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Community Home Infusion/Adapt Health information.
• Maintains documentation of calls to and from patients.
• Accurately enters information into electronic health records (EHR); electronically records data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and reporting.
• Identifies any missing documentation in the medical record to supervisor.
• Confirms nursing notes in EHR system.
• Obtains incoming outsourced agency nursing notes and invoices to match up dates and times, enters Patient Care Management System and forwards to QA Nurse for review.
• Assists with sending out physician plan of treatment and free form orders for signature and tracks for return, works with sales representatives to obtain timely signature as needed.
• Assure 24 hour/day, seven days/week administrative on-call coverage for the branch.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local rules and regulations, and company policies in all patient care aspects.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and function within the guidelines of HIPAA.
• Complete assigned compliance training and other educational programs as required.
• Maintain compliant with AdaptHealth’s Compliance Program.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees