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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Practice Coordinator 3

Full-TimeDeadline 10/9/26
$36.03 - $51.60
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In PersonMust work at any UCSF campus as needed and scheduled.
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryClinical Support & Patient Administration

About the job

Requirements
  • High school graduation or equivalent with four years of related experience, or a college degree with six months of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Must pass fingerprinting protocol and be approved to serve as a cash collector.
  • Strong computer skills, including basic keyboarding, experience with at least two office software programs such as Outlook, Word, and Excel, and ability to navigate multiple patient record systems.
  • Ability to analyze situations, prioritize work, develop solutions, and make recommendations.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and independently under deadline pressure.
  • Excellent customer service and communication/interpersonal skills in telephone and direct interactions.
  • Basic math skills.
  • Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of individuals and sensitively with patients.
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and writing skills, including composing, editing, and proofreading documents.
  • Demonstrated administrative and office coordination skills and knowledge of medical practice terminology.
  • Ability to sit at a computer terminal with telephone headphones for extended periods.
  • Within six months of start date and after training, must complete a supervisor-led proficiency checklist covering applicable duties such as referrals and workqueues, pending orders and smart sets, surgery scheduling, outside test results, messaging and telephone encounters, MyChart routing and scheduling, letters, patient lookup, check-in/check-out, comments, quick notes, and scanning.
  • Must adhere to patient confidentiality, HIPAA, infection control, safety, administrative, and clinical practice policies and procedures.
  • Must be able to work at any UCSF campus as needed and scheduled.
Responsibilities
  • Represent the administrative team as the public face of the practice and support practice operations, customer service recovery, and intervention with administrative, clinical, and management teams.
  • Maintain routine clerical operations and communications, including CRM messages, telephone encounters, referrals, APeX in-baskets, scanning, filing, authorizations, and billing.
  • Facilitate accurate information flow between medical and hospital staff and departments to improve outpatient unit efficiency.
  • Review referral workqueues, document activities in referral records, and act as a primary contact for referring physicians and new patients.
  • Assign new patients to providers; schedule and register patients; complete intake paperwork; collect and verify insurance and referral/authorization information; and coordinate pre-appointment tests.
  • Explain first-appointment procedures and preparation to patients, send new-patient materials, provide directions and practice-specific information, and coordinate clinical input when needed.
  • Obtain and review outside medical records, scans, and pathology materials for completeness and help determine the appropriate physician for evaluation.
  • Prioritize new-patient scheduling based on diagnosis and treatment status; coordinate consultations, clinical trials, testing, surgery, and care across clinical departments and external providers.
  • Coordinate outpatient and inpatient surgeries, including operating-room time, pre-surgical tests, anesthesia appointments, admissions, authorizations, resources, equipment, and communication among patients, physicians, and hospital staff.
  • Secure and update surgical authorizations, coordinate procedure billing, and confirm medical information and policy compliance in APeX.
  • Coordinate cosmetic-service consent, pricing, and payment, and support growth of elective cosmetic services through customer service and sales.
  • Arrange post-surgical appointments, testing, home care, physical therapy, durable medical equipment paperwork, and workers’ compensation paperwork as applicable.
  • Collect and deposit cash; explain administrative and financial policies; answer account questions and refer patients to appropriate support departments.
  • Obtain and document authorizations for visits, referrals, procedures, ancillary services, medications, and durable medical equipment; communicate clinical information to insurers.
  • Use CPT, ICD-9, ICD-10, and HCPC codes to support scheduling and authorization requests.
  • Monitor provider charts and encounters, support timely documentation, work billing information and denial queues, and assist with retroactive authorizations and amended authorizations.
  • Track complex authorizations, interpret insurance benefits, review denial reports, identify denial trends, and develop workflow improvements with the practice team and supervisors.
  • Compile and analyze revenue-cycle data and create reports in Microsoft Excel; track billing complaints and identify patterns for staff and provider coaching.
  • Serve as a resource on insurance questions and managed-care requirements, review insurance updates with staff, and communicate updates through practice materials.
  • Review patient eligibility, support transitions to new primary care practices, and produce reports on cash-collection barriers and revenue-cycle performance.
  • Greet and register patients, determine and collect copays, maintain practice flow and the reception area, address long waits, and assist patients with check-in kiosks.
  • Coordinate front-desk, referral, authorization, cash-deposit, durable-medical-equipment, and scheduling functions; develop productivity reports and assist management with workflow improvement and staff coaching.
  • Create provider Cadence schedule templates, generate rescheduling reports, and help ensure timely rescheduling and clinic access.
  • Schedule established-patient appointments and coordinate appointments among providers; answer questions about schedules and practice procedures and support prompt appointment access.
  • Triage calls, route urgent symptoms and requests to appropriate staff, use legacy systems and APeX to retrieve patient data, and follow up on missed appointments.
  • Provide administrative patient-care support, including sending letters, educational materials, and laboratory results; schedule procedures and tests and coordinate urgent and complex patient needs.
  • Maintain patient lists or spreadsheets to track care pathways and coordinate timely appointments across providers.
  • Book radiology appointments in radiology scheduling software while ensuring correct exam types, locations, and insurance restrictions.
  • Identify referral problems, report them to management with suggested solutions, and develop and review referral-management reports.
  • Maintain open-access schedules and support Patient-Centered Medical Home standards.
  • Perform applicable APeX patient-care-coordinator functions, including entering referrals and authorizations, managing CRM messages and telephone encounters, working APeX queues, sending MyChart communications and patient letters, creating SmartPhrase templates, entering outside test results, troubleshooting kiosks, pending orders and smart sets, modifying lab order classes, and coordinating advanced scheduling.
  • Support daily appointment access by coordinating alternative sites or urgent-care appointments when the practice has no available appointments.
  • Respond to patient phone and online appointment requests, document calls in EPIC CRM, convert CRM messages to telephone encounters, and use phone-bank protocols to involve clinicians for urgent or emergent symptoms.
  • Prepare charts, file and track patient materials, scan and import records into APeX, and maintain confidentiality of medical records and patient information.
  • Participate in team meetings, training, performance-improvement projects, customer-service initiatives, and process improvements; cover colleagues’ work as assigned and maintain provider calendars.
  • Support primary-care delivery using the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, coordinate patient forms and continuity of care, and contribute to Patient-Centered Medical Home application workgroups.
  • Provide one-to-one and team training for new hires and new procedures, and facilitate float coverage.
  • Report equipment malfunctions, follow ergonomic and infection-control practices, and serve as practice deputy for life-safety activities and drills.
  • Respond to patient inquiries and complaints, obtain information to resolve issues, communicate provider delays, advocate for patients, and suggest improvements to clinic operations.
  • Address escalated operational issues, advise management on process improvements, serve as a resource for designated functions such as APeX SuperUser, provide staff feedback, and support staff orientation, training, and oversight.
  • Follow UCSF service standards, communicate professionally and sensitively, protect protected health information, and comply with safety and infection-control requirements.
  • Maintain clean and orderly work areas, report unsafe conditions or damaged equipment, and protect the facility environment and equipment.
  • Modify tasks and workflows as needed and perform other assigned duties.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in healthcare, including medical, dental, or veterinary settings, in patient scheduling, insurance verification, medical-record data abstraction, or patient financial services.
  • Experience with appointment, ancillary-service, or surgical scheduling.
  • Spanish, Cantonese, or Russian language capability.
  • Prior experience with EPIC.

About the company

UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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