Job Details
Salary: $23.01 - $35.67 Hourly
Location : Las Vegas, NV
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: ADSOP_12_26_23
Department: CARE CNTR ADMIN - 8615
Opening Date: 04/01/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
Position Summary
EMPLOYER-PAID PENSION PLAN ( NEVADA PERS)
COMPETITIVE SALARY & BENEFITS PACKAGE
As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada's highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients.
We are home to Nevada's ONLY Level I Trauma Center, Designated Pediatric Trauma Center, Burn Care Center, and Transplant Center. We are a Pathway Designated facility by ANCC, and we are on our journey to Magnet status.
Position Summary:
Oversees operation of the admitting and discharge functions. Responsibilities include performing quality assurance tasks, supervising support staff, resolving charges and insurance code problems and acts as a liaison with other departments.
Job Requirement
Education/Experience:
Equivalent to high school graduation and four (4) years of experience in a hospital and/or ambulatory admissions/discharge operation setting, of which one (1) year was in a supervisory or lead role.
Professional level experience is defined as being employed in an FLSA exempt/salaried status position.
Licensing/Certification Requirements:
None Required.
Additional and/or Preferred Position Requirements
- Supervisory and/or Lead Experience to include; training, coaching, and scheduling staff.
- Experience with Front Office and Call Center Operations for Primary, Urgent and/or Specialty Care Clinics.
- Experience with patient scheduling, registration, billing, cashiering, and medical back office.
- Experience with Electronic Health Record (EPIC)
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Must be available for rotational on-call weekends
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical RequirementsKnowledge of:Principles and practices of office management; principles and practices of personnel supervision; medical terminology; hospital and departmental policies and procedures; insurance plans and requirements; basic coding principles; department and hospital safety practices and procedures; patient rights; infection control policies and practices; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency policies and procedures; age specific patient care practices.
Skill in:Establishing and implementing departmental standards; applying customer service techniques; resolving problems and complaints; writing statistical and financial reports; evaluating staff work in order to determine quality and additional training needs; using computers and related software applications; using office equipment such as phones, copiers and facsimiles; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:Mobility to work in a typical office setting and use standard office equipment, stamina to remain seated or standing for long periods of time, vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to occasionally lift and carry up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or an eligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.
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The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada offers a comprehensive & competitive benefits package:
- Employer Paid Pension Plan through Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System "PERS"!
- Vesting in the pension plan after 5 years of qualifying employment!
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance - Less than $20 per paycheck for employee-only coverage
- Consolidated Annual Leave (CAL) - CAL is used for personal leave, holidays (eleven scheduled holidays per year), doctor appointments, vacation, and sick days up to 16 consecutive scheduled work hours (short-term sick leave), etc.
- Extended Illness Bank (a/k/a Sick Bank)
- 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
- Comprehensive Group Health Insurance Plan
- Nevada has no State Income Tax
- No Social Security (FICA) Deduction
As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada's highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients. We are home to Nevada's ONLY Level I Trauma Center, Designated Pediatric Trauma Center, Burn Care Center, and Transplant Center. We are a Pathway Designated facility by ANCC, and we are on our journey to Magnet status.THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER01
Are you a current UMC employee?
- Yes
- No
- No but I am a former UMC employee
02
Do you have a high school diploma or GED? Please note that you will be required to provide original high school diploma or GED.
03
Do you have at least four (4) years of admitting/discharge experience in a clinical and/or hospital setting?
04
Of your admissions/discharge operations expeirence, how many years are in a supervisory or lead role? (
Please clearly document in your work history )
- Less than 1 year.
- 1 to less than 4 years.
- 4 to less than 8 years.
- 8 to less than 12 years.
- 12 years or more.
05
Which best describes your qualifications pertaining to this position? Check all that apply.
- Previous supervisory and/or lead experience including training and coaching staff.
- Experience with front office operations in a primary, urgent, and/or specialty clinic.
- Experience with scheduling, registration, obtaining prior authorizations, and cashiering.
- Experience working with insurance carriers, medicaid, HMO, and Workers Compensation.
- Epic Proficient.
- None of the above.
06
How would you describe your Microsoft Word skill level?
- No Experience
- Basic (create a new document; open and edit existing documents; format characters and paragraphs, work with tabs, indents, margins, lists, breaks, spacing; create and edit tables; print docs, envelopes, and labels, format characters and paragraphs)
- Intermediate (work with sections, create templates, use styles and customize them; create mail merges, sort and filter them; insert graphic elements; create and format complex tables, and manage table data)
- Advance (work with advanced styles and AutoFormat features, linking styles; use graphic effects such as dropped capital letters and clip art, insert WordArt, and draw in a document; Work with very large docs that require a table of contents, footnotes, endnotes, and cross-references; manage and track doc changes, using highlights and comments)
07
How would you describe your Microsoft Excel skill level?
- No Experience
- Basic (create basic spreadsheets & formulas, insert rows/columns, formatting)
- Intermediate (charts, graphs, sorting/filtering, data validation, lookup tables)
- Advanced (pivot tables, scenarios, goal seek, macros, advanced formulas, If functions)
08
I understand that my answers to the supplemental questions alone will not qualify me for the position. I must document those experience, level of education, and certifications clearly in the application in order to be qualified.
- Yes, I understand and will include those experience, level of education, and certifications clearly in the application.
Required Question