Job Description

Responsible for overall coordination and scheduling of surgeon's time, patients, and practice.

Shift: Monday- Friday 8:00am-4:30pm

• Manages incoming referrals and schedules consultations. Communicate back to referring physicians.

• Maintains surgeon's surgery calendar and schedules patients for surgery and pre-operative testing.

• Coordinates patients in clinic for pre-op teaching, post-op appointments and additional appointments as required.

• Acts as the liaison between the patient and the surgeon both pre-operatively and post-operatively.

• Acts as liaison with the surgery departments and outside clinics. Initiate consults to other specialists.

• Responsible for surgeon's charge tickets, working the missing ticket report, and indexing reports into the chart.

• Ability to create presentations for surgeon as needed.

• Ability to create surgeon's administrative documents and spreadsheets to include monthly Directorship Timesheets and monthly Call and Transplant reports.

• Maintain knowledge of other office positions and cover medical office specialist and office phones as needed.

At HSKC will also:

• Manage patient flow in surgeon's clinic.

• Monitor patients' insurance coverage and is responsible for prior authorization as needed. Communicate authorizations to Financial Clearance Center.

• Manage surgeon's practice to include coordinating the daily calendar, assisting with requested tasks, monitoring, and renewing licensure and professional memberships, organizing and scheduling meetings, and assisting with travel planning.

• Maintain surgeon's continuing medical education and curriculum vitae.

Job Requirements

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Job Details

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