Intake Coordinator presso Augusta Health

This position will have primary responsibility to oversee and provide support to home health intake. This will include managing referrals and initial and ongoing authorization. This position will also be responsible for overseeing the initial plan of care through the coding process.

Qualifications:

• Nursing Diploma and/or Associate Degree in Nursing
• Current and valid Registered Nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia or from a state that is part of a Compact agreement with Virginia
• 1 year of home health experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSN, MSN
• Billing or insurance experience

Essential Job Duties:

• Directly oversee the intake/authorization team
Provide daily oversight
o Perform annual performance review
o Participate in coaching and disciplinary actions as needed
• Maintain ongoing communication with referral sources
o Work closely with Post Acute Care Coordinator
• Functions as a resource for all stages of the referral process
• Review all referrals for completeness
• Enter new referrals
• Verify insurance eligibility
• Obtain insurance authorization and ongoing re-authorizations
• Work closely with the billing team to determine best practice in insurance authorization
• Oversee coding vendor including communicating and problem solving
• Oversee the plan of care on admission and at recertification including auditing for completeness.
Personal Growth-
• Assumes responsibility for own personal education and developmental needs.
• Displays positive attitude and flexibility toward work unit.
• Cooperates with interdisciplinary team members and other units to meet the needs of the patient.
• Attends all staff meetings on working days unless approved by management
• If unable to attend, responsible for obtaining information covered in the meetings
• Attends in-services as required or requested by leadership
• Being punctual for all meetings and in-services
• Minimizes absences per AH attendance policy
Quality-
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives including maintaining knowledge of department PI
projects.

Leadership_

• Participate as a member of the home health leadership team
• Assumes responsibility for own personal continuing education and developmental needs continually evaluate oneself for improvement and seek resources to improve and expand knowledge and foster growth

Some benefits of working at Augusta Health include:

• Generous paid time off to promote work life balance
• Free onsite parking
• Shift and weekend differentials
• Tuition reimbursement
• Onsite child care

Company Information
Augusta Health is a mission-driven, independent, nonprofit, community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginia’s scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255 bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.

Equal Opportunity

Augusta Health recruits, hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran or military discharge status, and family medical or genetic information.