Surgical Scheduler I - Chicago

Endeavor Health•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Surgical Scheduler I position is responsible for accurately creating and scheduling surgical cases in Epic Optime across Endeavor. This role involves identifying scheduling options and opportunities, resolving and anticipating conflicts, and ensuring timely communication between OR Staff and Surgeon offices. Additionally, the position handles charge capture for surgical and anesthesia procedures, facilitates the prevention of billing errors by reviewing legal documentation and physician notes, and resolves end-of-day processes to ensure charges are cleared and released to the hospital billing department. The role also includes creating new purchase item requests in Workday, contacting OR Staff to fix log discrepancies, and following up with supply vendors for necessary documentation.

Requirements

Knowledge of medical terminology.
Ability to multitask.

Nice To Haves

Associates Degree Preferred.
Previous experience in surgical scheduling or billing strongly preferred.
Epic Optime or Cadence experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Accurately creates and schedules surgical cases in Epic Optime across Endeavor.
Identifies scheduling options/opportunities.
Resolves/anticipates conflicts.
Facilitates communication between OR Staff and Surgeon offices to provide appropriately scheduled cases in a timely manner.
Performs Charge Capture for Surgical and Anesthesia procedures.
Facilitates the prevention of billing errors by reviewing legal documentation of log entries, physician surgical notes, and anesthesia technical charges to reconcile billable services.
Resolves and completes end of day processes, ensuring surgical encounter charges have been cleared in the “Unposted logs” report and released to hospital billing dept.
Creates “new purchase item requests” within Workday as needed for new items used.
Contacts and follows up with OR Staff to fix log discrepancies.
Contacts and follows up with supply vendors to receive missing “Bill Only/Vendor Form/Charge Sheets” as needed.
Miscellaneous duties as assigned by Supervisor/manager (i.e. Request Book, Training, Workqueues, Reports, etc.).