Medical Scheduler/Patient Registration

Education:
• Associate Degree in health care billing, accounting or business and a minimum of 1 year of health care healthcare scheduling and patient registration experience; OR High School Diploma/GED and a minimum of 3 years of health related experience in healthcare scheduling, billing, and registration.
Experience:
• Experience must be in one of the following areas: health care scheduling billing, health insurance verification, ICD-10 coding, medical necessity checking, authorizations and copay collections.
Skills & Abilities:
• Excellent word processing and computer typing skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills
• Must pass a medical terminology assessment test with 80% or greater.
• Must successfully complete analytical skills assessment test with 65% or greater.

General Purpose of Job:
The Pre-Service Scheduling Specialist's main objective is to accurately schedule and pre-register patients for Sparrow Health System and verify insurance authorization requirements are met. Responsibilities include: scheduling patient appointments, providing pre-registration, verification of insurance, obtaining insurance authorizations, collecting patient payments, providing estimates, entering ICD-10 codes and completing appropriate medical necessity checking. Understand modality specific protocols to safely schedule patients.

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