Practice coordinator vs patient care coordinator

Differences between practice coordinator and patient care coordinator duties and responsibilities

Practice coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage inpatient transfers to rehabilitation and medical facilities, along with preparing and monitoring outpatient billings insurance verification and referrals.
• Verify and update all insurance and HIPAA forms and information as needed.
• Perform blood glucose and PTINR testing, EKG's, and injections.
• Schedule new patient, follow-up and surgical center appointments using EMR scheduling software.
• Prepare medical records and documentation for patient visits, including loading of information into the EMR system.
• Implement and ensure compliance with laws and regulations that affects the clinic (HIPAA, OSHA, and CLIA).
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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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