Medication coordinator vs medical scheduler

Differences between medication coordinator and medical scheduler duties and responsibilities

Medication coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage patient's accounts collecting and billing financial statements, budgets and expertise with CPT and ICD-9 coding.
• Manage inpatient transfers to rehabilitation and medical facilities, along with preparing and monitoring outpatient billings insurance verification and referrals.
• Complete records after patients complete all medical appointments, typing intake forms and additional entries/forms, and obtain physician signatures.
• Navigate effectively through an electronic medical records (EMR) system.
• Develop plan for confidentiality of client and agency information through HIPAA guidelines.
• Perform Medicare and Medicaid audits on members using company medical policy and establish criteria for H.C.F.A.
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Medical scheduler example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pre-op responsibilities, and generate all necessary paperwork.
• Schedule patients for any testing that is necessary including MRI's, EMG's and Doppler's.
• Transcribe physician orders including schedule labs, testing and screening/specimens and occasionally transport patients to various location of the hospital.
• Prepare class for transition techniques to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
• Perform basic medical assistant duties such as triage, vitals, administer IM injections.
• Answer multiple phone lines simultaneously, schedule patient appointments, and interact with physicians and triage patient calls.
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