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Medical Office Coordinator

Employer
Johns Hopkins University
Location
Maryland, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
Oct 17, 2021

The Division of Cardiology is seeking aMedical Office Coordinator who will work collaboratively and will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of a multi-faceted, high volume clinical division to ensure a smoothly functioning office and excellent patient relations. Providing support in a team-based, service-oriented environment to multiple physicians, the Medical Office Coordinator is responsible for a variety of interactions with patients, insurance companies, and other health professionals in preparation for and following up from the clinic visit. In addition to the clinic support responsibilities, this position will perform other administrative functions to ensure the successful operations of the Division’s clinical practice.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

Medical Administrative Support:

  • Professionally and efficiently handle incoming requests from patients and ensure that issues are resolved both promptly and thoroughly.
  • Provide quality service and support in a variety of areas which may include, but not limited to scheduling, registration and care coordination.
  • Carries out duties and responsibilities with limited supervision.
  • Makes decisions and establishes work priorities on essentially procedure-oriented operations. Responsible for completing regular tasks without repeated instructions.

Patient Scheduling:

  • Schedule new and follow-up clinic appointments, and assist in canceling and rescheduling of clinics for providers.
  • Coordinate exam room availability with key stakeholders.
  • Working with Clinical Director and Clinical Operations Administrator and clinical support staff to coordinate clinic schedules for physicians, troubleshooting scheduling conflicts and working closely with the Cardiology Scheduling Office to arrange for routine and emergency patient appointments.
  • Collect insurance information, and complete registration in EPIC.
  • Triage questions from patients about billing and refer to JHU Physician Billing Services and/or JHH Patient Financial Services.
  • Support the physician with insurance preauthorization and single case agreement processes by submitting necessary clinical information as instructed by the physician.
  • Coordinate follow-up office visits by providing information about treatment, and testing locations. Schedule lab tests and other procedures, and/or coordinates with other areas to complete scheduling process.
  • When physician’s clinic is cancelled, call patient to re-schedule physician and/or testing appointments pertaining to that visit.
  • If requested by physician, complete courtesy calls to patients to remind them of appointment arrival times and answer questions about location, parking, what to bring, etc.
  • All information entered into EPIC will be subject to evaluation, quality controls and performance management standards.

Provide Administrative Support for Medical Matters on Behalf of Physicians:

  • Complete divisional requests for filing, faxing, scanning, copying, answering phones, sorting mail, data entry, and other errands in a timely, accurate, and collegial manner.
  • Answer in-coming administrative calls from patients and provide information to patients, as appropriate.
  • Routinely check voice mail and return calls to patients within 24 hours.
  • Coordinate with patient and/or referring physician to obtain outside medical records. Ensure that all relevant outside medical records are received and scanned into Epic in advance of clinic. Ensure that physician gets medical records in advance per protocol as appropriate.
  • Refer patient to appropriate resources/clinical areas.
  • Send out letters and post op information to referring physicians, if needed.
  • Send out confirmation letters to patients when appointment is scheduled less than 2 weeks out or as needed.
  • Receive from physician completed and signed forms requested by the patient such as: Disability, Family Medical Leave, Workers Compensation, Medical Assistance Application, MVA, etc. All completed forms should be scanned into EPIC and send original to patients for their records.

Other Activity Processed in EPIC, including but not limited to Coordinating Clinic Follow-up of High Importance Activities, such as:

  • Enter patient phone messages and route to physician or nurse, as appropriate.
  • Print and send patient letters as necessary
  • Document inbound/outbound phone messages to patients as appropriate.
  • Obtaining insurance pre-authorizations

Responding to Ad Hoc Patient Inquiries and Requests in a Timely, Professional, and Courteous manner, including Communicating Relevant Information to and from the Physician:

  • Reinforce information for office visits (e.g. scheduled dates of service, information to bring to the visit, driving instructions, where to park, etc.
  • Act as a liaison for patient, coordinating future consultations, diagnostics tests, or procedures.
  • Up to date insurance information found on Johns Hopkins Managed Care website.
  • Facilitate scheduling of lab tests and other procedures.
  • Identifying dissatisfied patients and initiating service recovery procedures

Prepare to support clinic activities from home in case of JHU closure (install virtual desktop and keep electronic reference lists as needed, and make sure you have cell or home phone numbers for physicians, supervisors, and clinic manager).

Provide coverage to the Division front desk and telephone line. Provide back-up support coverage for lunches, illness, and other time-off requests as needed in the Division.

Providing leave coverage of other clinical support co-workers’ job duties, including reviewing and triaging patient requests received, performing needed clinical preparation and follow up, providing other support to physicians as needed, and facilitating clinic schedule changes.

Academic/General Administrative Support – As Necessary. Provide General Administrative Support to One or More Physicians:

  • Answer office phone, schedule meetings/maintain calendars for physicians, make travel arrangements, maintain filing system (copy or scan as indicated).
  • Assist with preparation of correspondence, reports, posters, and related documents
  • Compile information for reports, grant applications, manuscripts, etc.
  • Order stock and maintain office supplies
  • May coordinate meetings on behalf of the physician.
  • Process reimbursements per department protocol as applicable.

Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):

  • High School Diploma/GED.
  • Two (2) years secretarial experience in a similar service oriented industry required.
  • Additional education may be substituted for years of related experience.

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience.  Additional related experience may substitute for the required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

Classified Title:Medical Office Coordinator
Role/Level/Range: ATO 40/E/02/OD
Starting Hourly Pay Rate Range:$15.26 - $21.00/hr (commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule:Monday - Friday / 40 hrs a week
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt
Location:​​​​​​​School of Medicine Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM DOM Cardiology
Personnel area: School of Medicine

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office atjhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

Johns Hopkins has mandated COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, as applicable. Exceptions to the COVID and flu vaccine requirements may be provided to individuals for religious beliefs or medical reasons or because the individual is pregnant or attempting to become pregnant. Requests for an exception must be submitted to the JHU vaccination registry. For additional information, applicants for SOM positions should visit https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/and all other JHU applicants should visit https://covidinfo.jhu.edu/health-safety/covid-vaccination-information/.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Note: Job Postings are updated daily and remain online until filled.

EEO is the Law
Learn more:
https://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf
Important legal information
http://hrnt.jhu.edu/legal.cfm

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