Authorization Specialist

2 weeks ago


San Diego, United States Lorian Health Full time

Join the **Lorian Health** team, a home health and hospice agency that is thoughtful, generous, and family-oriented. At Lorian Health, we believe in equanimity regarding the treatment of all our patients, setting the highest quality standards for home health services. Our commitment to fostering a socially responsible environment within our organization and community allows us to provide the highest caliber of health care for our patients and their families.

**Job Summary**:
The Authorization Specialist I supports the Revenue Cycle Management team by verifying initial and ongoing payer authorization and eligibility of home health services. The specialist will request, follow up and secure prior authorizations prior to services being performed. The specialist must complete the functions of this role in a timely and accurate manner, as a patient’s treatment and satisfaction are impacted.

**Responsibilities**:

- Verifies insurance eligibility and authorization of current and potential home health clients in an accurate and timely manner.
- Completes authorizations and referrals for services, notifies customers of deductibles/co-insurance due.
- Proactively manages and maintains all outstanding authorization accounts to increase billing of clean claims.
- Contacts customers when needing to obtain additional information for incomplete authorizations.
- Assist authorization Lead with Monthly Private Insurance eligibility checks.
- Enters insurance authorization and eligibility information into systems.

**Required Education and Experience**
- Successful completion of high school or GED
- Minimum typing WPM 40+
- 1 year office experience and or work history
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft systems (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, etc)
- Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills, and good phone etiquette.
- Ability to work under stress with interruptions and deadlines.
- Ability to follow complex instructions.
- High-energy and detail oriented.

**Additional Desired Qualifications**
- Have knowledge of insurance carrier billing requirements.
- Home Health and or Hospice experience

**Physical Requirements**
- Subject to sitting for long periods of time.

**Work Environment**
- Professional Office Environment

**Equipment Used**
- Computer
- Phone
- 10 key calculator

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.



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