What are the responsibilities and job description for the Health Information Management Assistant position at Lakeshore Community Health Care?
Primary Accountability
Responsible for compiling, processing, and ensuring the accuracy of patient records.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
1. Manages Disclosure Requests
a. Processes requests for release of health information including patients, healthcare providers, legal representatives, 3rd party payers and other authorized parties in accordance with HIPAA regulations and company policies and procedures.
b. Scans, verifies, and uploads all documents into EHRS.
2. Manages outside referrals
a. Reviews referrals work queue and sends out referrals to other healthcare facilities.
General Development:
- Reacts appropriately in response to workflow, changes in priorities, or ongoing direction by supervisors or others.
- Selects from a limited set of pre-established alternatives to resolve situations encountered on the job; is expected to seek guidance when appropriate response is unclear.
Professional and Technical Knowledge:
- Possesses a basic level of written and verbal communications skills, computational and computer skills and mathematical knowledge typically acquired through completion of a high school program.
- Possesses specific knowledge of health information processes and practices, typically learned “on the job,” or which may include a series of training sessions that would comprise a few weeks if done consecutively.
- Additional expertise acquired through practice or exposure to various conditions, beyond the formal knowledge (or on the job training), allows employees to perform more advanced techniques.
Licenses and Certifications:
- N/A
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrates necessary proficiency with all electronic clinical systems, including EHR and scheduling systems, in use at the health center.
Communication Skills:
- Typically communicates routine or non-technical information to co-workers and others.
- Effectively communicates written information (including electronic correspondence).
Physical Demands:
- Duties performed in a typical office environment.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $15.72 - $18.65 per hour
Benefits:
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16 - $19
