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Inpatient Coordinator - Phoenix, AZ-316007
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When you work with UnitedHealthcare, what you do matters. It's that simple...and it's that challenging.
In providing consumer-oriented health benefit plans to millions of people, our goal is to create higher quality care, lower costs and greater access to health care. Join us and you will be empowered to achieve new levels of excellence and make a profound and personal impact as you contribute to new innovations in a vital and complex system.
The Census Data Unit (CDU) is responsible for the management of the census data for accurate bed day reporting. Inpatient, skilled nursing and acute rehab cases are created in the appropriate UM applications and routed to the CDU for coverage determination, eligibility verification, and routing to the assigned facility nurse as per the Priority Review (PR) and Secondary Level of Care (SLOC) criteria. CDU is responsible for capturing the most accurate census data as possible, timely discharge date entry, managing future scheduled admissions, and referrals to the disease management programs, while meeting the turnaround time goals to support timely clinical review.
Inpatient Coordinator - Phoenix, AZ
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple methods of census notification
- Manage the multiple products and lines of business in the appropriate UM systems
- Receive admission notifications for current, future, and retrospective admissions from facilities and/or Inpatient Care Managers (ICMs)
- Manage cases for shared risk, fully insured, partial risk carve-out, and OOA acute inpatient, skilled nursing, AIR and LTAC admissions, in the appropriate UM system
- Utilize the Blended Census Report (BCRT) to identify cases requiring updates and/or correction
- Route Priority Review inpatient cases from Intake to ICM within 60 minutes
Regardless of your role at UnitedHealthcare, the support you feel all around you will enable you to do what you do with energy, integrity, and confidence. So take the first step in what is sure to be a fast paced and highly diversified career. Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Experience in using MS Windows based PC skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Understanding of basic medical terminology
- Ability to perform ICD-9, CPT and HCPC coding
- Certificate Program or Associate's Degree in Business or related health care field.
- Health care or health plan experience
- Willingness to work flexible work schedule as needed
- Good communication skills, verbal and written
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks
- Demonstrates critical thinking and decision making skills
- Functions well in a team environment. Acts as a team player and is accountable to the team for helping to meet all goals/objectives.
- Detail oriented
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. All candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. |
