Home Health Intake Assistant

Description :

AW Health Care is currently seeking a full time Administrative Assistant to join our Intake team in the University City, MO office.

The intake department supports all three of our Metro St Louis area Home Health offices. Please note : (must live in Greater St. Louis)

The Intake Administrative Assistant is a para-professional who assists the Intake team with various clerical and support tasks.

Responsibilities :

• Adds medications to all pending start of care charts before leaving for the day. If not able to complete, notifies appropriate intake nurse.
• Assists with putting in referrals as needed, completing demographics, insurance ID and medications and calls patient or designated point of contact to verify address.

Once completed, sends referral to appropriate intake nurse.

• Checks efaxes in Kantime periodically throughout the day, prints and gives to appropriate intake nurse
• Reviews faxes received (3PM or later) with each intake nurse to make sure they have received them
• Takes calls / messages when intake nurse is unavailable
• Assists with making calls to new referrals to verify address and notates in journal note
• Updates physician / patient information in Kantime as needed
• Assists with creation of nursing and therapy schedules, ensures all visits are coded correctly
• Completes necessary productivity reports
• Assist with administrative tasks in the office

Requirements : Qualifications :

Qualifications :

• A qualified para-professional with comprehensive home health care knowledge and experience.
• Three to five (3-5) years of health care experience, preferred. One (1) year experience in home care, preferred.
• CMT or Previous Unit Secretary experience, preferred
• Ability to exercise initiative and independent judgment
• Ability to work with individuals, to enlist cooperation of many people to perform / achieve a common goal.

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