Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks a Clinic Care Coordinator for their CMG Cardiovascular Services Program responsible for interacting with patients and visitors at the clinic and manages administrative tasks for the medical team. Their duties include receiving phone calls, scheduling patient appointments according to physician’s availability, explaining intake forms and consent forms to new patients, and processing payments. Perform patient registration, check-in and check-out. Responsibilities include:

• Transcribe patient referrals into the EMR system and index accompanying paperwork. 
• Navigate patients through the referral process and manage all related tasks for the clinic care team including, initiating the referral process and evaluating requirements for each referral, obtaining authorizations when applicable, partnering with the Navigation Center or internal and external clinics to ensure continuity of care, and maintaining the various work queues.

QUALIFICATIONS:

All job qualifications listed indicate the minimum level necessary to perform this job proficiently. 

Technical Requirements:

• Minimum: Basic MS Word & min. 35 wpm typing speed. Bilingual skills (English/Spanish) required for Peds OP Clinic.

Years of Related Work Experience:

• Minimum: Six months clerical experience.
• Preferred: 1 year clerical experience in a medical environment performing referrals and authorizations.

Cottage Health is a leading acute care hospital system, located on the central coast of California, widely known for our superior patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health system operates primarily in Santa Barbara, CA, since 1888, and consists of three acute care hospitals, a Rehabilitation Hospital, multiple clinics and a multi-site Urgent Care system. Our mission is to serve the central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.
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