Surgery Scheduler

Job Summary

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitors, coordinates, and manages all surgical scheduling tasks for assigned providers to include but not limited to Athena dashboards and DocSpera.
• Obtain authorizations for procedures, diagnostic testing, medication authorizations, pre-operative testing, or surgeries as required by patient’s health care insurers or managed care providers.
• Schedules internal and external appointments, procedures, and surgeries.
• Reviews surgical procedures with patients, providing education and review of necessary documents and secures patient’s signatures on required documents.
• Confirms patient surgical and diagnostic appointments with appropriate facilities and ensure timely delivery of appropriate documents.
• Investigate insurance benefits and calculate patient responsibility. Collect patient balances for surgery and DME.
• Schedules or coordinates pre-admission testing, surgical clearance appointments with patient’s Primary Care Physician office, Cardiology or other specialty practices.
• Timely review of pre-operative testing results and forwards abnormal test reports to surgeon, physician assistant and clinical coordinator. Communicates same with patient’s Primary Care Physician regarding medical clearances.
• Prepares and collates surgical paperwork and ensures timely delivery to surgical site. Reviews chart for completeness and accuracy by ensuring all pertinent studies/diagnostics are available prior to pre-operative testing and surgeries.