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Deercreekseniorliving

Intake Coordinator

Deercreekseniorliving, Citrus Heights, California, us, 95611

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JR57662The mission of First Call Hospice, a locally owned agency founded in 1993, is to provide individualized quality hospice care to meet the unique needs of patients with a limited life expectancy. The primary goal of First Call Hospice is to enhance the quality of life when the quantity of life is limited.**When you join First Call Hospice Team, we will*** Offer an extensive orientation, tailored to your needs.* Have 401K available to all full time employees with profit sharing.**First Call Hospice is growing and looking for experienced, compassionate Intake Coordinator to join our team!****Job Description**The Intake Coordinator is responsible for managing the patient intake process, including communicating directly with patients and families, data entry, establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources, responding to customer requests and concerns, participating in a daily intake stand up meeting, monitoring portals and managing the insurance verification and authorization processes.**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES*** Monitors partner portals for incoming referrals.* Carries out daily patient referral and intake operations including implementation and execution of intake best practices.* Ensures compliance with all state, federal, and Joint Commission referral/intake regulatory requirements.* Directs the implementation of improved work methods and procedures to ensure patients are admitted in accordance with policy.* Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral sources.* Ensures seamless transition of patients to hospice care by providing direct oversight of patient education and preparation for hospice care, plan of care initiation, and coordination of care with multiple service providers.* Ensures maximum third party reimbursement through direct oversight of insurance verification and authorization processes.* Assists the Executive Director/Administrator in the preparation of an annual budget for the intake department and monitors allocation of resources according to budgetary limitations.* Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of Hospice contractual relationships and ensures that patients are admitted according to contract provisions.* Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of community resources and assists referral sources in accessing community resources should services not be provided by First Call Hospice**Requirements*** The Intake Coordinator must have healthcare experience, preferably in referrals/intake in a home health or hospice environment.* Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.* Demonstrates autonomy, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.**Pay:** $20.00 - $28.00 per hourThe employer for this position is stated in the job posting.

The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.

Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.

More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.First Call Hospice & Palliative Care is a Sacramento based provider that’s been around since 1997 servicing Sacramento, Placer, Yolo an El Dorado Counties. Our name “First Call” comes from being one of the first companies to provide hospice care outside of the large hospital systems in the area.We are an equal opportunity employer committed to ensuring that all conditions and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, transfer, promotion, discipline, determination of compensation and/or benefits, and termination of employment, for all job classifications, are based on qualifications and work record. No employment decision is made, nor do we discriminate, on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex/pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, or disability. #J-18808-Ljbffr