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Memorial Hospital is looking for an experience clinic biller with at least 3 – 5 years of clinic billing/coding experience in an RHC and fee for service facility.  Remote, at home, off campus access will be considered.  See job specifications and job responsibilities listed below. Primary Job Responsibilities:

Monitor the coding and charging of all clinic procedures for appropriateness and reviews accounts for compliance with Federal and State billing requirements to payers.

Maintain the Epic work ques including claim edits and charge review so that accounts are billed within 4 business days.

Maintain the Epic work ques for timely follow up on accounts for all payers and private pay.

Perform the necessary maintenance of patient accounts, i.e., correspondence, follow-ups, logs, inquires, and correspondence to ensure accurate and timely communication with the business office.

Maintain a system to capture missed and/or late charges prior to submission of claims.

Work with other departments to ensure best practices and processes for the entire Revenue Cycle.

Work closely with healthcare providers in the education of billing and coding principals.

Maintain knowledge of Federal and State billing requirements.

Perform other duties as assigned and requested.

This position is full time Monday through Thursday 10 hours per day in the ER dept.

Job Summary:

Interviews and registers patients for hospital admittance, outpatient procedures, and emergency services either in person or on the phone for pre-registration.  Obtains all applicable medical, demographic, and payment source information to enable the Hospital to appropriately treat the patient, bill the proper payers, and comply with Federal and State regulations.

Keeping EMTALA in mind, attempts point of service collection when appropriate to inform patients of their financial responsibility to allow for an educated decision on what the patient feels is appropriate treatment and to reduce back end collection expenses.

Assists the nursing staff by performing clerical and clinical duties within the individuals scope of care within the nursing unit as needed; records patient ER visits in the electronic statistical tracking sheets and CPSI ER log; processes patient charts and files testing in the patient’s chart before it goes to Medical Records; verifies benefits on inpatient registrations, outpatient surgicals, and other accounts as needed.

Balances the cash drawer; maintain electronic patient files as needed; maintain departmental supply inventory; prepare the various lists related to patients for appropriate use; communicate effectively with a wide range of age groups from the very young to the elderly and multiple socio-economic backgrounds.

The Certified Nurse Assistant is responsible for providing personal care to the residents. Personal care includes assistance with meals, dressing, movement, and bathing. The CNA follows established facility policies and procedures while providing care and coordinates resident care with other facility personnel and families.

Prepare and serve meals in a sanitary manner to preserve nutritional quality, comply with diet orders and meet the needs of the facility.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare meal items as ordered or directed that are safe, nutritious, of appropriate temperature and according to therapeutic diet guidelines.
• Maintain clean and sanitary work area and equipment. Completes assigned cleaning in a timely manner.
• Clean and sanitize dishes and utensils.
• Works in a team environment.  

Job Summary:

Responsible for the supervision of the Clinical Team Leads and the Patient Care Service Manager of the

Memorial Medical Clinics. The Director of Clinical Operations  will meet/exceed the organizations goals and objectives related to the day to day operations of the medical clinics.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1.  Select, mentor, motivate and direct development and evaluation of the Clinic Team Leads in support of the Clinical Team.   The Director of Clinical Operations will team leads in the orientation and evaluation of the  performance  of clinic teams and make recommendations  for personnel actions of the MMC clinical staff.

2.  The Director of Clinical Operations in conjunction with the Patient Service Coordinator will Plan, organize and direct health services and operations for the MMC locations, insures that goals, objectives and work performed are consistent with standards and quality care is provided to patients in a patient care team lead model.

3.  The Director of Clinical Operations will provide oversight and guidance for the implementation of ACO benchmarks and to help facilitate the launch of the Chronic Care Coordinator efforts of the Chronic Care Coordinator.

4.  The Director of Clinical Operations will provider overall guidance and direction as it pertains to Rural

Health Regulations and Joint Commission Requirements.

5.  Responsible for the oversight of day to day clinical operations as reported by the clinic team lead as it pertains to scheduling of the clinical teams to maintain a productive and profitable work day for all of the Memorial Medical Clinic locations.

6.  Establishes and tracks quality improvement indicators in conjunction with team leads and the Patient

Care Service Manager and other information concerning services and care to insure that resources are available to provide quality services and on-time performance.

7.  Devise health related educational programs for clinical and non-clinical staff in collaboration with the

Director of Education at Memorial Hospital.

8.  Participates in the annual business planning and budget process with responsibility for review and

maintenance of clinical expense line items and meeting goals/timelines.

9.   Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure efficient and effective delivery of health care services.

10.       Monitors with the assistance of Clinic Team Leads on charts to evaluate nursing care, identify issues of concern, track trends and report results.

11.       Strategically works with Clinic Team Leads to establishes areas of responsibility and assignment with the clinical staff such as ordering and stocking supplies, maintaining the drug logs and sample medication closets, nurse to provider ratio's and assignment, keeping a uniform medical record with standard nursing abbreviations, notes and forms.

This position will be a float position - floating to the outer clinics with Carthage being the home clinic.

Job Summary:

The Licensed Practical Nurse is a clinical practitioner who participates in providing patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.  He/she is able to implement and evaluate patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to geriatrics. He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit’s standards of care.  He/she demonstrated performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times. To assist the primary provider in all professional and clinical procedures.  Clinical procedures shall include phlebotomy, performing EKG’s, urinalysis, injections, and taking and recording patient vital signs. will be a float position filling in at outer clinics with the home being in Carthage.

The Maternal Newborn Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to female patients age menarche to menopause in the ante partum period, labor, delivery, post partum and to newborn infants.

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package.

Job Summary: The Medical Assistant is a clinical practitioner who participates in providing patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.  He/she is able to implement and evaluate patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to the geriatrics. He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the clinic’s standards of care.  He/she demonstrated performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times. To assist the primary provider in all professional and clinical procedures.  Clinical procedures shall include phlebotomy, performing EKGs, urinalysis, and taking and recording patient vital signs.

Interviews and registers patients for hospital admittance, outpatient procedures, and emergency services either in person or on the phone for pre-registration.  Obtains all applicable medical, demographic, and payment source information to enable the Hospital to appropriately treat the patient, bill the proper payers, and comply with Federal and State regulations; monitors the completion of the conditions of admissions for each registration.

Maintains adequate skills and competencies on the Epic software; maintains the work ques within Epic assigned to this position; processes any change of address and mail returns received from the USPS. Monitor the incoming calls with proper telephone etiquette and efficiency. Complete billing projects as assigned by supervisor.

Attempts pre-registration and point of service collection when appropriate to remind patients of their scheduled services and to inform patients of their financial responsibility to allow for an educated decision on what the patient feels is appropriate treatment and to reduce back end collection expenses.

Assists the nursing staff of the ER/OP Department by performing clerical duties within the nursing unit as needed; verifies insurance coverage on inpatient registrations, outpatient surgicals, and other accounts as needed; assist the ER/OP nursing staff in scheduling services and setting up reoccurring accounts for those services; monitors the need for call back paperwork for the nurses in ER.

Balances the cash drawer; maintain electronic patient files as needed; maintain departmental supply inventory; prepare the various lists related to patients for appropriate use; communicate effectively with a wide range of age groups from the very young to the elderly and multiple socio-economic backgrounds.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1. Interview and complete the registration of all patients to ensure an accurate patient medical record.  This may include the calling of physician’s offices.
2. Assists the nursing staff by performing clerical duties as needed.
3. Attempts pre-registration and point of service collection when appropriate while remaining compliant with EMTALA.
4. Demonstrates the ability to properly prioritize activities within the department as needed.
5. Accurately and promptly handle incoming and outgoing telephone calls with proper telephone etiquette
6. Maintain the department standards for financial counseling of patients
7. Receive and properly maintain the orders received from physician’s offices for quick reference for patient procedures. 
8. Helps to maintain a professional atmosphere for patients and clinical staff.
9. Maintain the balance of the cash drawer.

Job Summary:

Monitors compliance with Federal and State regulations; Verifies all insurance on scheduled services; Completes an estimate of the self pay portion to the patient; Obtains pre-authorization/pre-certification per payer requirements for scheduled and non-scheduled hospital and clinic services prior to services rendered and ensures authorization number is documented in the appropriate field in the system; Monitors the daily operations of Financial Counseling for scheduled services.  

Notifies the appropriate Director of any problems in scheduling a patient or procedure; Assists the nursing staff by performing clerical duties on scheduled services as needed; Maintains effective communications with physicians, physician’s offices, ancillary departments, other departments, and co-workers as is appropriate; Reports all Financial Counseling, pre-authorization, pre-certification, and/or registration issues to the Director of Patient Financial Services.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1. Verifies all insurance on scheduled services and provides an estimate of the self pay portion to the patient.
2. Obtains pre-authorizations/pre-certification per payer requirements for scheduled and non-scheduled hospital and clinic services prior to services rendered and ensures authorization number is documented in the appropriate field in the system.
3. Ensures the clinical documentation is provided to the insurance when appropriate for any and all IP and OP services.
4. Monitors the approval of all observation, inpatient and swing bed patients for adequate approval of covered days.  Calls the insurance company when appropriate to request additional days.
5. Inputs information for inpatient stays into the Medicaid IP Health Solution system for pre-certification approval.
6. Completes referral documentation and forms for patients being referred from Memorial Medical Clinics to a specialist.

Looking for PRN positions for:

Med/Surg RN

Emergency Department RN

The Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) provides nutrition consultation and education for patients and their families who are screened at nutrition risk, identified with nutrition risk, and/or referred by physicians or other healthcare providers for nutrition-related problems, chronic disease management, management of nutrition support, to meet regulatory requirements, or for prevention and wellness. The RDN is an integral part of the multidisciplinary team who serves as the patient’s nutrition advocate. The RDN ensures that the patient’s nutrition needs are being met, including when nutrition support (enteral or parenteral) initiation and/or management is necessary, during patient care, clinic visits, and unit/clinic rounds.

The RDN is an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, is involved in education of physicians and other health professionals and contributes to the development and revision of organizational policies and guidelines. The RDN maintains professional competency and skills required for professional practice.

This position may also float to Pre-OP and OB if needed.  Monday-Friday 08:00 to 17:00.  May be asked to pick up extra hours if needed.

The Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to the elderly.  He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit's standards of care.  He/she demonstrates performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times.

The Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to the elderly.  He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit's standards of care.  He/she demonstrates performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times.

The Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to elderly.  He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit's standards of care.  He/she demonstrated performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system: is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times.

The Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to the elderly. He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit’s standards of care. He/she demonstrated performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect. Acts as a patient advocate at all times.

The Registered Nurse is a clinical practitioner who assesses, coordinates, implements and evaluates patient care specific to the age of the patient population served from newborn to the elderly.  He/she ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner, consistent with the unit's standards of care.  He/she demonstrated performance consistent with the mission, philosophy and goals of the unit and organization; remains flexible to changing system; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats staff, physicians, patients and families with consideration and respect.  Acts as a patient advocate at all times.

Would be responsible for activities involving respiratory care, pulmonary functions, nebulizer treatments, BIPAP, etc.  EKG's, assisting with stress tests and cardiac/pulmonary rehab.

This position is part time and will work every other weekend.  Saturday and Sunday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., taking call during the p.m. hours from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m on the Saturday and Sunday.

This position would also be PRN and would fill in for vacations.

Job Summary:

Responsible for assisting in the implementation of delegated patient care activities and preparation of the surgical patient under the direct supervision of the perioperative registered nurse.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

1. Assists the surgeon as a scrub technician and is prepared with the proper equipment and instruments for the procedure.
2. Assists the circulating nurse as needed.
3. Assists in housekeeping duties of the department as directed to ensure safe patient environment.
4. Assists in the transportation of surgical patients to and from the surgical suite as needed.
5. Assists in maintenance, care and processing of surgical instruments, equipment and supplies.
6. Responsible to take “leave word” hours for the surgery department in case of emergencies on off hours.
7. Assists in the surgery scheduling process for the department.