Senior Director of PAU - (Fort Smith, AR)

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS : 1. Responsible to contact all scheduledpatients prior to their scheduled service and completing a properpre-registration while ensuring a three day min lead time is maintained. 2. Responsible for making excellent firstimpressions with patients and families. Ensures that patients, their families,customers, and staff members are treated with kindness and respect. 3. Accurate account creation includingthe correct selection of patient Medical Record numbers while obtaining andvalidates patient demographic, insurance, and required clinical details. 4. Completes insurance verification andbenefit eligibility checks with complete documentation in DAR. 5. Calculates patient liabilities and reviewsall insurance benefits and patient portions due with patients prior to service,actively collecting and posting patient liabilities from patients, asappropriate. 6. Responsible for obtaining initialprecertification / authorization info and proper patient typeassignments.