Care Team Specialist- OB/GYN (City Heights)

Job Description

Job Description

The Care Team Specialist is responsible for greeting patients, clients, and visitors entering the clinic. The Care Team Specialist is also responsible for checking-out patients, becoming familiar with all self-pay and third party insurances, creating appointments for patient, providing a patient plan connecting them to needed services and ensuring all care team information was input correctly.

Customer service is a core competency for the Care Team Specialist.

Responsibilities :

• Greet patients, clients, and visitors when they are checking out following all organizational customer service guidelines (refer to Customer Service Policy).
• Checks-out the patient following their appointment through NextGen enterprise practice management (EPM) auto flow process, which includes updating the patient’s demographics, and scheduling follow-up appointments.
• Printing out a Patient Plan through the NextGen electronic health record (EHR).
• Printing out Patient Education if applicable to patient.
• Printing out information regarding new medications and giving them to patients as they are checking out.
• Creates needed follow up and preventive screening appointments for patients after their visit with the provider
• Generate Same / Next Day reports to prepare for patients coming for their appointments and to see what additional services they qualify for.
• Answer telephones (includes scheduling appointments) and provide information on Clinic operation following La Maestra’s established Phone Call Etiquette.
• Schedule appointments using the PCMH script for all departments and sites and corrects scheduling Errors.
• Assign patients to a Primary Care Provider (see PSR Procedures and Protocols) when appropriate.
• Re-assign patients to a Primary Care Provider (see PSR Procedures and Protocols) when appropriate.
• Re-schedules patients if provider is unavailable while following the PCMH script.
• Always maintain La Maestra’s Phone Call Etiquette (see PSR procedures and Protocols).
• Check clinic voicemail messages and take appropriate action (i.e. call back patient, schedule appointment, forwarding message information to intended recipient, etc.)
• a. All voicemails are expected to be checked daily
• When Checking out the patient, if patient is no longer covered, Care Team Specialist must inform patient, explain payment options and arrange for payment according to sliding fee scale when appropriate and give the patient information regarding obtaining insurance if applicable
• Responsible for being familiar with the guidelines and standards of government programs and health insurances the clinic is engaged in and patients’ use, in paying for services.
• Responsible for scanning and archiving documents into patients chart in a timely manner.
• Call patients if the patient did not check out to schedule any preventive services.
• Inputs Imaging Referral orders into EHR for In House ultrasounds and X-rays .
• Generates Referrals that are in the referral tab when patient is in Check out.
• Schedules appointments for In House Referral orders that were completed by the time the patient Check oust.
• Ensures that all Care Team information was correctly placed in the system by other staff as the patient Checks Out and passes out Patient Satisfaction Surveys.
• Provides weekly productivity reports to supervisor.
• Attend daily huddles for their Care Team.
• Other functions as directed by the supervisor.
• Maintain effective communication and working relationships with other employees and patients.

Job Requirements :

Education : High School Diploma or GED

Certification : Medical Assistant Certificate preferred.

Experience : 1-2 years’ experience in a physician office or hospital setting as a Patient Services Representative or registration preferred.

Verbal and Written Skills to perform the job : Bilingual (English / Spanish) preferred. Familiarity with basic word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.

Accurate keyboarding skills.

La Maestra Community Health Centers is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender, disability or any other legally protected status.

Company Description

The La Maestra Circle of Care® is a holistic, solution-based approach to addressing the health and wellbeing needs of diverse emerging communities because complete wellness requires more than just a trip to the doctor.

Since the first clinic opened in 1990, La Maestra’s board and staff recognized that for a patient and family to be healthy, they must have barrier-free access to integrated services including nutritious food, safe affordable housing, job training or continuing education opportunities, and programs that promote wellbeing.

La Maestra’s staff, who is from the diverse populations served, has embraced the Circle of Care® philosophy, working together to identify the total needs of patients and attend to them through preventive care, education, treatment, and referrals to services that address the social determinants of health, ultimately guiding patients and their families to wellbeing and self-sufficiency.

The Circle of Care® involves a network of integrated services provided by La Maestra Community Health Centers, La Maestra Foundation, and partner organizations.

La Maestra strives to overcome barriers, streamline workflows and improve quality, and it continuously broadens the Circle of Care® to respond to growing needs, while enhancing its effectiveness through state-of-the-art technology including eHealth solutions and custom population health management systems.

The Circle of Care® approach makes La Maestra unique among the healthcare organizations in the region. La Maestra’s total commitment to the health and well-being of the individual and his or her family extends far beyond what normal healthcare organizations are prepared to provide.

La Maestra has been recognized locally and nationally for its commitment to develop and share this grassroots, innovative, and scalable model.

Company Description

The La Maestra Circle of Care® is a holistic, solution-based approach to addressing the health and wellbeing needs of diverse emerging communities because complete wellness requires more than just a trip to the doctor.

Since the first clinic opened in 1990, La Maestra’s board and staff recognized that for a patient and family to be healthy, they must have barrier-free access to integrated services including nutritious food, safe affordable housing, job training or continuing education opportunities, and programs that promote wellbeing.

r n r nLa Maestra’s staff, who is from the diverse populations served, has embraced the Circle of Care® philosophy, working together to identify the total needs of patients and attend to them through preventive care, education, treatment, and referrals to services that address the social determinants of health, ultimately guiding patients and their families to wellbeing and self-sufficiency.

The Circle of Care® involves a network of integrated services provided by La Maestra Community Health Centers, La Maestra Foundation, and partner organizations.

La Maestra strives to overcome barriers, streamline workflows and improve quality, and it continuously broadens the Circle of Care® to respond to growing needs, while enhancing its effectiveness through state-of-the-art technology including eHealth solutions and custom population health management systems.

r n r nThe Circle of Care® approach makes La Maestra unique among the healthcare organizations in the region. La Maestra’s total commitment to the health and well-being of the individual and his or her family extends far beyond what normal healthcare organizations are prepared to provide.

La Maestra has been recognized locally and nationally for its commitment to develop and share this grassroots, innovative, and scalable model.