Location: Danbury, CT
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm for per diem coverages as needed
Provides advanced level clerical and administrative support and coordinates the patient care activities for physician practice operations.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates and schedules appointments and obtains authorizations for testing, referrals, surgical procedures, hospital procedures, hospital admissions.
- Reconciles money and financial reports for daily office deposit.
- Expected to be cross-trained and provide back-up for check in/out staff.
- Coordinates and maintains physician schedules including, but not limited to, meetings, teaching, inpatient rounding.
- Maintains and orders office supplies for efficiency of operation while ensuring budgetary controls.
- Participates in the reengineering of workflows and process improvements throughout the practice to meet the requirements of programs such as Patient Centered Medical Home and Meaningful Use.
- Completes audits and assists with tracking and reporting of information as needed.
- Acts as a super user for telephone and/or scheduling systems.
- Presents a professional appearance and imagine.
- Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
- Composes confidential correspondence, reports, memoranda, and related documents.
- Schedules appointments and meetings. Makes necessary arrangements for meetings. Takes meeting minutes, as required.
- Performs various receptionist and registration duties.
- Compiles and analyzes basic information and prepares statistical data for reporting purposes.
- Prepares presentation materials. Creates charts, graphs, tables, graphics, etc.
- Maintains department supply and equipment inventory.
- Performs research for special projects, as assigned.
- Performs related duties, as required.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
- 0-1 year administrative experience, required.
- 1 year customer related experience required
- Preferred: 1+ years of healthcare experience
- Working knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), required.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and employ basic reasoning skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
*Additional Salary DetailThe salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
