Intake Specialist

Intake Specialist

At AdaptHealth we offer full-service home medical equipment products and services to empower patients to live their best lives out of the hospital and in their homes. We are actively recruiting in your area. If you are passionate about making a profound impact on the quality of patients' lives, please apply.

The Intake Specialist has a broad range of responsibilities including accurate and timely data entry, understanding, and selecting inventory and services in key databases, communicating with referral sources, and appropriately utilizing technology to notate patient information / communication. Intake Specialist's schedules can vary based on the need of the branch.

The lead specialist serves as a subject matter expert, conducts new hire training and mentor to the team.

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities :

• Accurately enters referrals within allotted timeframe as established; meeting productivity and quality standards as established.
• Communicates with referral sources, physician, or associated staff to ensure documentation is routed to appropriate physician for signature / completion.
• Works with leadership to ensure appropriate inventory / services are provided.
• Communicates with patients regarding their financial responsibility, collects payment and documents in patient record accordingly.
• For non-Medicaid patients communicate with patients
• Responsible for reviewing medical records for non-sales assisted referrals to ensure compliance standards are met prior to a service being rendered.
• Follows company philosophies and procedures to ensure appropriate shipping method utilized for delivery of service.
• Answers phone calls in a timely manner and assists caller.
• Reviews medical records for non-sales assisted referrals to ensure compliance standards are met prior to a service being rendered.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of payer guidelines and reads clinical documentation to determine qualification status and compliance for all equipment and services.
• Works with community referral sources to obtain compliant documentation in a timely manner to facilitate the referral process.
• Contacts patients when documentation received does not meet payer guidelines, provide updates, and offer additional options to facilitate the referral process.
• Works with sales team to obtain necessary documentation to facilitate referral process, as well as support referral source relationships.
• Must be able to navigate through multiple online EMR systems to obtain applicable documentation.
• Works with insurance verification team to ensure all needs are met for both teams to provide accurate information to the patient and ensure payments.
• Assume on-call responsibilities during non-business hours in accordance with company policy.

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