Surgical Scheduler

Surgical Scheduler

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Oversees daily operation, schedules patients for surgery, and coordinates operating room schedules of multi-disciplinary, multi-site surgeons. Assists Practice Administrator or Director in managing day to day operations of all medical departments at times.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• "Opens" or “Closes” the surgical department each day, according to office policy
• Assists Practice Administrator and/or Director of Practice Management with daily operational duties, if needed, at times when the Director is off premises, such as: Oversees front office staff for all other departments, processes invoices and daily deposits
• Schedules and completes any active work list items (including: all pre-op orders, laboratory and diagnostic studies) as ordered by the surgeon in the EMR
• Counsels patients concerning scheduled surgery, financial obligation and gives preoperative instructions
• Requests authorization and/or pre-certification from health plans prior to scheduled surgery for surgical procedure and hospital days
• Arranges for assistant surgeon coverage and proctorship coverage as needed
• Schedules surgeries within established surgical block times with affiliated hospitals as requested by surgeons

Your qualifications should include:

• High school diploma or equivalent
  Two years of work experience in a medical environment.
• Two years medical office experience; Preferred
• Medical terminology

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