Admitting/Pre Authorization Coordinator, Radiation Oncology, Days

7:30 am until 4pm Monday through Friday

Located at 10710 Charter Drive, Suite G030, Columbia, MD 21044

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

I. General Summary

• Under the general supervision of the Director, Clinical Reimbursement and the direct supervision of the Assistant Director, Patient Administrative Services, evaluates financial status and completes insurance verification and authorization for admissions to the acute care hospital and the psychiatric units in accordance with the UMMS policies and procedures. These admissions include those emergency admits and elective pre-certification for future planned admits.

II. Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

• Accepts reservations for future admissions from physicians’ offices and physician teams. Receives this information via the hard copy “white card: or via the IDX system.
• Resolves incomplete information for the planned admits by contacting the physician’s office for the required additional insurance or medical information that is requested by the third party payers.

III. Qualifications

• Completion of a high school level of coursework with attainment of a high school diploma or a State High School Equivalency Certificate (GED).
• Minimum of two years work experience in a clerical position in a healthcare setting such as an acute care hospital, physician’s office or HMO, performing admissions processing or patient registration work.
• Knowledge of data entry and use of terminal for patient registration and demographic information, retrieval of patient information and review of financial information.

IV. Working Conditions

• Weekend, shift work, holiday, on-call, and overtime may be required.
• Work is primarily performed in a normal, office environment with some contact with patients and visitors.
• Work requires a high level of computer work and some potential of visual strain related to work on CRT terminals

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 Compensation

• Pay Range: $17.56-$22.54
• Other Compensation (if applicable):
• Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide