Location:Orion Building -6630 Orion DriveFort Myers FL 33912
Department: LPG Referral
Work Type: Full Time
Shift: Shift 1/8:00:00 AM to 4:30:00 PM
Minimum to Midpoint Pay Rate:$16.49 - $20.16 / hour
📌 Now Hiring: Referral Coordinator Lee Physician Group (SWFL Region)
Location: Southwest Florida (On-site for 90 days, then potential to go fully remote)
Schedule: Full-time | Great Work/Life Balance | Supportive Team Environment
💼 Position Summary:
Join our dynamic Referral Department team at Lee Physician Group! As a Referral Coordinator, you will facilitate internal, outgoing, and incoming referrals to ensure timely and accurate scheduling for patients. You'll manage referral work queues, communicate with practices, verify insurance authorizations, and play a key role in patient access and satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
Process over 50 referrals daily for completeness and correct routing
Work incoming and outgoing referral queues in Epic
Schedule patient appointments and attach appropriate referrals
Obtain and verify insurance authorizations
Proactively review schedules to ensure all referrals and authorizations are in place
Maintain communication and rapport with assigned practices and departments
📚 Education & Experience:
High school diploma or GED required; post-secondary training or college preferred
Minimum 1 year of customer service and scheduling experience
6 months of Epic EMR experience preferred
🌟 Perks & Benefits:
Collaborative, team-oriented environment
Work/life balance supported by flexible, remote-eligible work structure (after 90 days on-site)
Opportunity to gain valuable healthcare experience with one of SWFLs leading medical groups
📍 Must be local to the Southwest Florida region
Facilitates referrals by processing internal, outgoing, and incoming referral entries. The Referral Coordinator will be responsible for working assigned incoming and outgoing referral work queues, schedule patients, attach referral to patient appointments, obtain authorizations, proactively look into assigned department schedule and verify all authorizations have been done. Will also be responsible for maintaining communication/relationship with the assigned practice. Processes more than 50 referrals per day for completeness, and disseminating the referral appropriately to the correct work queues is the start of the scheduling process.
Education:High School diploma or GED equivalent required. Post high school training or college preferred.
Experience:Minimum of 1 years experience in customer service and scheduling. 6 months of Epic experience preferred.
Certification:N/A
License:N/A
Other:This job requires you to have a working knowledge of referrals and InBasket, so that you can communicate to the offices and physicians about the referrals. One must possess extensive knowledge Epic scheduling to maneuver efficiently and attach the referral to the appointment, which assists the scheduler in providing quick and accurate service for our patients. This position takes multi-tasking to a new level, and requires one to be flexible, as the job duties change quickly. Communication and fostering a team environment are an essential component of this job. We work in cubicles, so one must feel comfortable working in a confined space. One must maintain all of those proficiencies and will continue to achieve exceptional quality scores/error rate. In addition, this person must be crossed trained in all service lines of the department.
Medical terminology knowledge is a must. Knowledge and understanding of telephone etiquette including strong listening skills are essential. Excellent customer service, including verbal and written communication skills are required. Ability to effectively, precisely and clearly communicate with other departments, physician practices, staff and providers. Data entry skills and good computer skills are required including knowledge of Microsoft Office. Expert understanding of insurance and authorization process. Ability to trains all levels of referral coordinators for all assigned specialties. Being bilingual is helpful.
US:FL:Fort Myers
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