Medical-Equipment-Specialist-Post-Acute
SSM Health
Location:
Fond du Lac, WI 54936
Date:
12/27/2022
Categories:
- Healthcare
SSM Health
Job Details
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WI-Agnesian Health Shoppe
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Summary:**
Acts as a liaison between employees, providers, payers, customers, and other health care providers to obtain necessary documentation and process orders for medical equipment and supplies.
**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILTIES
+ Obtains and interprets medical documentation, compares documentation with insurance coverage criteria, and creates orders to provide medical equipment and supplies.
+ Verifies patient insurance eligibility and benefits and communicates financial responsibilities to patients, caregivers, and other health care providers.
+ Performs accurate and timely data entry into operating system and processes orders for appropriate equipment and supplies to ensure for timely delivery and correct billing.
+ Communicates with patients, employees, caregivers, and other health care providers on status of orders.
+ Collects payments from patients for coinsurance, copays, and self-pay items.
+ Obtains written orders and prior authorization for appropriate equipment/supplies.
+ Ensures compliance with Medicare, Medicaid and Accreditation Standards.
+ May focus duties on other equipment/supply groups as needed.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ High school diploma or equivalent
EXPERIENCE
+ Two years' experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
+ Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
+ Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
+ Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
+ Rare climbing.
**Work Shift:**
Day Shift (United States of America)
**Job Type:**
Employee
**Department:**
2917000034 AHE HMRE
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
40
SSM Health complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex.
Learn more here (http://resources.ssmhealth.com/nondiscriminationclause/non-discrimination-statement.pdf)
WI-Agnesian Health Shoppe
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Summary:**
Acts as a liaison between employees, providers, payers, customers, and other health care providers to obtain necessary documentation and process orders for medical equipment and supplies.
**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILTIES
+ Obtains and interprets medical documentation, compares documentation with insurance coverage criteria, and creates orders to provide medical equipment and supplies.
+ Verifies patient insurance eligibility and benefits and communicates financial responsibilities to patients, caregivers, and other health care providers.
+ Performs accurate and timely data entry into operating system and processes orders for appropriate equipment and supplies to ensure for timely delivery and correct billing.
+ Communicates with patients, employees, caregivers, and other health care providers on status of orders.
+ Collects payments from patients for coinsurance, copays, and self-pay items.
+ Obtains written orders and prior authorization for appropriate equipment/supplies.
+ Ensures compliance with Medicare, Medicaid and Accreditation Standards.
+ May focus duties on other equipment/supply groups as needed.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ High school diploma or equivalent
EXPERIENCE
+ Two years' experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
+ Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
+ Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
+ Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
+ Rare climbing.
**Work Shift:**
Day Shift (United States of America)
**Job Type:**
Employee
**Department:**
2917000034 AHE HMRE
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
40
SSM Health complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex.
Learn more here (http://resources.ssmhealth.com/nondiscriminationclause/non-discrimination-statement.pdf)