Patient information coordinator vs patient care coordinator

Differences between patient information coordinator and patient care coordinator duties and responsibilities

Patient information coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage and track various holds on inventory: ship on quarantine; FDA hold; and quality hold.
• Verify patient insurance eligibility, and perform medical coding under ICD-9 and CPT code formats.
• Obtain and update demographic, emergency contact and insurance information, including referrals/authorizations on all patients as needed.
• Schedule radiology procedures using IMAGECAST.
• Enter ICD-9 and CPT-code information for billing purposes.
• Verify medical claims are appropriately code utilizing ICD-9 coding and make corrections, as necessary.
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Patient care coordinator example responsibilities.

• Communicate with insurance companies on a continuous basis to ensure hospital reimbursement and attain authorization for home and rehabilitation services.
• Manage caseload by providing care coordination to individuals with a primary intellectual/developmental disability diagnosis all of whom receive community-base waiver services.
• Check in, check out patients, and do EKG's.
• Gain knowledge relate to bundle payments for orthopedic patients and the rules and regulations set forth by CMS.
• Respond to telephone inquiries, providing quality service to customers, PSR's and insurance representatives inquiring about patient accounts.
• Prepare patients prior to MRI exam, obtain safety check lists and assist with the daily operations of the MRI department.
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