Surgical Scheduler - Palmdale
City of Hope
Palmdale, CA
Job posting number: #7287922 (Ref:10027782)
Posted: October 28, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $20.81 - $30.49 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
The Surgical Scheduler schedules patients for surgery, and coordinates operating room schedules of multi-disciplinary, multi-site surgeons. Collaborates with internal and external departments such as OR, New Patient Services, Provider Contracting, Admitting Departments, Utilization Review Departments, clinic schedulers, pre-operative clinic staff, physicians, midlevel practitioners, vendors, and departmental secretaries.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Coordinate surgery cases and outpatient procedures based on doctors OR block time schedules and clinic schedules.
- Counsel patients concerning scheduled surgery, financial obligation and provide patients with estimates related to surgeon fees.
- Request authorization and/or pre-certification from health plans prior to scheduled surgery.
- Arrange for assistant surgeon coverage, including midlevel practitioners, and proctorship coverage as needed.
- Secure all vendor equipment requests for surgery as directed by physician.
- Schedule pre-op appointments including labs, EKGs, imaging or any ancillary services.
- Ensure all clearances requested by provider are received prior to the surgery date.
Your qualifications should include:
- High school diploma
- Two years or more of work experience in a medical environment
- Knowledge of ICD-10 and CPT coding
- Working knowledge of managed care and understanding of HMO, HMO Capitation, PPO, POS and third-party carriers
- Professional attitude in dealing with visitors, physicians, company executives/representatives and/or Board Members
- Experience handling conflicts with patients and patients’ families
- EPIC Cadence EMR experience preferred
Additional information
This position is represented by a collective bargaining agreement
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $20.81 - $30.49 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
