Hospice Patient Care Coordinator - Sacramento (Intake / Scheduler)

Responsibilities

• Completes department functions, duties, and activities for Intake of new referrals and maintain all clinical field staff schedules.
• Assists in the smooth processing of referrals, and acts as a liaison between LORIAN and referral sources.
• Manages all aspects of the clinical field staff schedules, while ensuring admitted patients are seen as ordered by the referring physicians within 48 hours.
• Ensures that all relevant patient information is obtained in an accurate and timely manner, and is entered into HomeCare HomeBase system, in order to meet MEDICARE requirements, when patients are referred to LORIAN by referral sources.
• Regularly collaborate with the sales and clinical management team in reviewing new referrals and determining the appropriateness of any given referral for the agency.
• Provides all relevant patient information patient personal demographic, history and physical, current medications, physician’s orders, F2F, surgical reports, etc.) obtained upon referral into patient charts.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

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The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.