Surgery Scheduler - Orthopedics - Tarzana

Cedars-Sinai

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

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In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The Surgery Scheduler manages the daily clinical and surgery schedules for physicians while serving as the primary point of contact for patients. This role coordinates the entire patient experience, including pre-op and post-op appointments, insurance authorizations, and health education.

Qualifications

We are seeking a Surgery Scheduler to support physicians and clinical staff with administrative tasks, ensuring smooth clinic workflow. Key responsibilities include managing surgery schedules, obtaining authorizations, coordinating patient education, and serving as a liaison between patients, physicians, and other departments.

Job Description

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A Little More About What You Will be Doing

The Surgery Scheduler supports the physician and clinical staff in administrative related tasks to ensure clinic workflow. This position is responsible for the day-to-day assigned physician practice including management of physician practice clinical and surgery schedule. This role serves as a key point of contact in coordinating the patient experience within the practice through scheduling patient surgeries, outpatient procedures, provision of health education information and other related surgery and procedure scheduling tasks for various medical specialties of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Handles all scheduling for patient including pre-op and post-op appointments, verifying insurance, obtaining surgery authorizations, health clearance for the patient. Ensures all pre-op studies are scheduled and completed and that clinical staff and OR times are scheduled for the procedure.

  • Reviews with patient the risks and benefits of surgery/procedure per Doctor’s orders, and will enlist the patient in the appropriate education classes prior to the surgery as directed by the Physician
  • Serves as a primary point of contact for the patient, and will act as a liaison with the physician, patient and other departments both internal and external; Serves as a resource and support to the patients before, during, and after surgery.
  • Ensures that all arrangements have been made for each surgical procedure including obtaining necessary special equipment requested by physician for specific procedures.
  • Serves as a resource (pre, post and during surgery) and supports the patients by responding to patient inquiries, and complaints, if needed, provides service recovery and/or escalate issues to the supervisor when necessary.
  • Provides direct concierge coordination between office and patient designee.
  • Manages physician referral work queues by completing referrals.
  • Handles physician correspondence, forms and request for authorizations, and the physician’s calendar and other transcription needs as required.
  • Prepares charts and reviews/performs/updates demographics and insurance information.
  • Works with the billing team to provide information for requested audits and ensures that the appropriate surgical reports and charges are sent to the billing department.
  • Collaborates with workers comp adjusters and case managers on worker’s comp request for authorizations and will follow up to ensure completion of authorization and documentation.
  • Provides clinical or administrative support based on operational needs.
 

Cedars-Sinai

Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement. Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely. Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
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