Referral Clinical Review RN

Company: UCHealth
Location: Arvada
Posted on: February 21, 2021

Job Description:

Summary:
Establishes medical necessity for advanced services and procedures. Liaisons with providers, payers, and others to facilitate navigation of complex authorization and reimbursement processes.

Work Schedule: Full Time Days

Responsibilities:
Reviews clinical documentation and guidelines for pending referrals, calling when necessary in an attempt to obtain authorization, mitigating the need for physician calls. Facilitates peer-to-peer reviews as needed.

Identifies documentation requiring clarification, communicating with providers or other healthcare professionals to ensure medical necessity is supported. Serves as a resource to providers and other healthcare professionals regarding appropriateness of clinical documentation.

Determines that medical necessity documentation and intent is established to meet Medicare compliance for diagnosis codes entered by providers. Changes diagnosis codes and documents details in EMR as needed.

Initiates complex referrals on authorization portals, and trouble-shoots how best to navigate portals to obtain authorizations upon submission.

Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.

Requirements:

• Credentials:
  Essential:
  * Registered Nurse
• Other information:
  Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited Registered/Professional Nursing program.
  Required Licensure/Certification: State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
  Minimum Experience: 3 years of experience as an RN.
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  This position's pay range starts at: $31.230000/hour.
  
  
  An annual bonus may be paid to eligible employees based upon organizational and individual performance.
  
  UCHealth offers their employees a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Some of the many benefits included in this package are full medical, dental and vision coverage; retirement plans; paid time off; employer-paid life and disability insurance with additional buy-up coverage options; tuition and continuing education reimbursement; and a full suite of voluntary benefits such as identity theft protection and pet insurance. Our employees and their family members have full access to our Employee Assistance Program, which includes up to 5 free counseling visits and work/life solutions, such as one free legal consultation. In addition, other emotional counseling support is available depending upon their need.
  
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