Admissions Specialist – Remote | Acadia Healthcare
Our Mission:
As one of the nation’s leaders in treating individuals with co-occurring mood, addiction, eating disorders, and trauma, Acadia Healthcare places a strong emphasis on our admissions & intake functions to allow us to help every possible person in need. To this end, Acadia Healthcare is currently interested in hearing from dynamic, results driven candidates who may be a fit for the Remote Admissions Coordinator position. The Remote AC will be primarily responsible for the admission and/or registration of patients into the facility and maintaining communication between the organization and the patient referrals and family.
Benefits:Full-time employees are eligible for health/life insurance, PTO, and vacation accruals.
Schedule: Mon-Friday 10am-6:30pm and every other weekend. Weekends hours – 9am-5:30pm
Salary: $25-$30/hourly
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
• Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families.
• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
• Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.
• Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
• Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.
• Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
• Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
• Four years of experience in sales, call center setting and insurance.
• Bachelor’s degree in behavioral science, Social Work, Vocational Rehabilitation, Sociology, Public Administration, or a related field; in some states, may also be a registered nurse, in which case, an associate’s degree in nursing may be the minimum educational requirement or a licensed practical or vocational nurse, in which case, successful completion of an LPN or LVN training program may be the minimum requirement. For states in which a therapist may act in this role, a master’s degree in a therapeutic field required.
• Minimum one year experience working with individuals in a clinical or observational capacity, preferably within the area of specialty for the hiring facility.
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As one of the nation’s leaders in treating individuals with co-occurring mood, addiction, eating disorders, and trauma, Acadia Healthcare places a strong emphasis on our admissions & intake functions to allow us to help every possible person in need. To this end, Acadia Healthcare is currently interested in hearing from dynamic, results driven candidates who may be a fit for the Remote Admissions Coordinator position. The Remote AC will be primarily responsible for the admission and/or registration of patients into the facility and maintaining communication between the organization and the patient referrals and family.
Benefits:Full-time employees are eligible for health/life insurance, PTO, and vacation accruals.
Schedule: Mon-Friday 10am-6:30pm and every other weekend. Weekends hours – 9am-5:30pm
Salary: $25-$30/hourly
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
• Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families.
• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
• Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.
• Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
• Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.
• Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
• Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
• Four years of experience in sales, call center setting and insurance.
• Bachelor’s degree in behavioral science, Social Work, Vocational Rehabilitation, Sociology, Public Administration, or a related field; in some states, may also be a registered nurse, in which case, an associate’s degree in nursing may be the minimum educational requirement or a licensed practical or vocational nurse, in which case, successful completion of an LPN or LVN training program may be the minimum requirement. For states in which a therapist may act in this role, a master’s degree in a therapeutic field required.
• Minimum one year experience working with individuals in a clinical or observational capacity, preferably within the area of specialty for the hiring facility.
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