• Surgical Practice Scheduler

    Saint Luke's (Kansas City, MO)


    Job Description​

    Responsible for overall coordination and scheduling of surgeon’s time, patients, and practice.

    Shift: Monday- Friday 8:00am-4:30pm

    + Manages incoming referrals and schedules consultations. Communicate back to referring physicians.

    + Maintains surgeon’s surgery calendar and schedules patients for surgery and pre-operative testing.

    + Coordinates patients in clinic for pre-op teaching, post-op appointments and additional appointments as required.

    + Acts as the liaison between the patient and the surgeon both pre-operatively and post-operatively.

    + Acts as liaison with the surgery departments and outside clinics. Initiate consults to other specialists.

    + Responsible for surgeon’s charge tickets, working the missing ticket report, and indexing reports into the chart.

    + Ability to create presentations for surgeon as needed.

    + Ability to create surgeon’s administrative documents and spreadsheets to include monthly Directorship Timesheets and monthly Call and Transplant reports.

    + Maintain knowledge of other office positions and cover medical office specialist and office phones as needed.

    At HSKC will also:

    + Manage patient flow in surgeon’s clinic.

    + Monitor patients’ insurance coverage and is responsible for prior authorization as needed. Communicate authorizations to Financial Clearance Center.

    + Manage surgeon’s practice to include coordinating the daily calendar, assisting with requested tasks, monitoring, and renewing licensure and professional memberships, organizing and scheduling meetings, and assisting with travel planning.

    + Maintain surgeon’s continuing medical education and curriculum vitae.

    Job Requirements

    Applicable Experience:

    2 years

    Job Details

    Full Time

     

    Day (United States of America)

     

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