Title: Authorizations Coordinator
Hours: 8am-4:30pm, Monday – Friday
Location: Waltham, MA 02451
- First 6 months fully in office, then turns hybrid
Pay: $24-$27, depending on experience
Responsibilities:
- Collects request for company and outside specialists or diagnostic visits and determines whether managed care authorization is needed.
- Obtains provider authorization (or denial) for a referral and notifies outside specialists and patients of authorization numbers.
- Documents in the medical record: details about referral; the steps to making the referral; and communications regarding the referral
- Serves as liaison between the outside specialist and referring physician and schedules internal and external appointments.
- Notifies patients of scheduled appointments and educates them about their appointments and any necessary preparation.
- Interacts with insurance companies to obtain the prior authorizations for the patients for procedures and dealing with out of network referrals and worker’s comp cases.
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