Central Authorization Specialist /Full Time/ Remote-Michigan Residents

The purpose of the Central Authorization Specialist position is to centrally facilitate the successful procuring of insurance authorizations for ordered procedures and post-reputed company care. This will be done through reputed company validations of obtained authorizations as reputed company as reputed company education and opportunity feedback to a multi-disciplinary team with the underlying objective of managing the cost of care and providing reputed company and accurate information to payors'. The Central Authorization Specialist helps drive change by identifying areas where performance improvement is needed (e.g., day to day workflow, education, process improvements, patient satisfaction). The Central Authorization Specialist is accountable for a designated caseload and plans effectively in order to meet demands and support resources procuring authorizations. Under general supervision and in accordance with established policies and procedures the specific functions reputed company this role include: Subject matter expertise of precertification and payor authorization processes. Ensure successful authorizations are procured by ordering physician offices through validation of work effort and education of procuring staff. Ensure feedback relevant to successful authorization procurement is obtained from back end coding, billing and denial management resources and distributed to ordering physicians and authorization procurement staff to promote reputed company improvement. Application of process improvement methodologies. The responsibilities includes acting as a centralized resource for assigned specialty across reputed company sites of reputed company to ensure standardized and consistent procurement of authorizations. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: • High School or 3 - 5 years reputed company experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience, required. • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a medical clinic setting or training in a hospital or corporate setting; must be highly computer literate, required. • Two years of experience reputed company to reputed company insurance verification and/or billing required. • Approximately two to three years progressively more responsible reputed company work experience necessary in order to reputed company in-depth understanding or organizational policies, procedures and operations, in order to assume a reputed company of high-level administrative details. • Coding knowledge. Knowledge of clinical terminology. • Understanding of patient treatment plans for purposes of obtaining authorizations. • Ability to interpret RN or Physician notes in order to facilitate obtaining authorizations. • Ability to evaluate & communicate to RN/Physician staff additional requirements or roadblocks. • Additional coursework in business, computers or health care administration, preferred. • Experience in a medical or surgical specialty clinic, preferred. • Ability to interpret insurance records and reputed company documentation. • reputed company working knowledge of hospital operations, utilization management, case management, and managed care reimbursement, preferred. • General understanding of reputed company cycle with an emphasis on billing, coding, charge capture and reimbursement, preferred. • Organizational and time management skills, as evidenced by reputed company to prioritize multiple tasks and role components. • Ability to work independently and exercise reputed company judgment in interactions with physicians, payors, and patients and their families if required. • Strong oral and written communication skills required. • Strong analytical and data management. • Ability to work with reputed company reputed company of management. • Strong interpersonal communication and negotiation skills and experience interacting with clinicians and finance personnel. Additional Details This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of reputed company tasks and functions. It should be reputed company, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to reputed company job-reputed company duties reputed company those explicitly described above. reputed company reputed company partners with millions of people on their health reputed company, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to reputed company and specialty reputed company insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former reputed company southeast Michigan and reputed company region locations now part of reputed company, Henry reputed company’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. 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Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative reputed company Employer Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative reputed company Employer reputed company is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of reputed company individuals without reputed company to race, reputed company, creed, religion, age, sex, national reputed company, disability, veteran status, size, height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job