What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Administrative Coordinator position at Bay Psychiatric Associates?
Bay Psychiatric Associates is an office-based psychiatric practice that offers alternative therapies for psychiatric disorders. We are a dynamic and growing practice that serves patients in the Bay Area. Our mission is to provide quality, compassionate, dedicated services in an ethical manner by offering the latest cutting-edge, alternative therapies to patients who have failed or poorly tolerated conventional psychiatric treatments. To learn more please visit www.baypsychiatric.com
Summary
Provides administrative and coordinator support for patients and physicians in the outpatient and interventional psychiatry physicians.
Essential Duties
- Handles incoming calls and directs callers to proper team member and teams.
- Responds and processes all new outpatient service inquires.
- Screen, register patients, and schedule new patients for initial consultations.
- Maintains provider schedules, and schedules patient appointments.
- Sends prescription refills to providers for review.
- Collects and processes patients balances: copays, deductible, or co-insurance.
- Prepare financial paperwork for treatments.
- Maintains and updates patient demographics and insurances.
- Directs requests and inquiries to appropriate team members as needed for other treatment service lines.
- Prepare and send new paperwork.
- Verify mental health benefits, and insurance authorizations, as needed, including prior authorizations for treatment and/or prescriptions.
Duties
- Review and respond to voicemails: patients, other providers or health centers, insurance inquiries and pharmacy related questions.
- Update and complete assigned tasks in database.
- Screen new patients with BPA contracted insurances; Verify mental benefits and review patients financial responsibility; Assist with authorizations, if needed.
- Register new patient(s) in EMR and initiate patient portal to complete paperwork.
- Confirm required paperwork is completed including entering required fields: demographics, insurance and add service programs in EMR.
- Respond to emails from patients, doctors, and BPA team member and leadership.
- Attend staff and department meetings
- Assist other team members as required; including support to Supervisor and/or Manager with monthly reports.
- Participates and contributes to training and knowledge with other team members on work assignments and new processes.
- Supports Manager with mid and end of month reports
- Other duties as assigned
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $25.00 - $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- M-F Schedule no Weekends
- 10 Paid Holidays/ 15 PTO / 2 Floating Holidays
- Medical (Employee Dependent(s) covered by Employer)
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance (Employer Covered)
- LTD (Employer covered)
- 401k - 100% vested after 90 days
Healthcare setting:
- Clinic
- Inpatient
- Outpatient
Medical specialties:
- Psychiatry
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Insurance verification: 1 year (Required)
- Medical office: 1 year (Preferred)
- Computer skills: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $25 - $27