Fort Thomas, KY30+ days ago
Experience at the GS-5 includes but is not limited to: scheduling, cancelling, re-scheduling patients appointments and/or monitoring both inpatient and outpatient appointments for areas of responsibility, ensuring encounter forms are completed in order to obtain appropriate workload credit, verifying and updating demographics and insurance information, processing all emergency and non-emergency transfers to other VA facilities or private hospitals, performing basic eligibility, co-pays and preauthorization requirements for specific coverage, etc. Maintain effective and efficient communication with patients, care teams, VA medical centers, and external agencies, including:- Assisting communication during inpatient-to-outpatient discharge- Contacting non-VA facilities- Preparing correspondence to notify patients of normal lab results- Managing follow-up systems for consults, tests, and other care needs.