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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm, hours may vary
Posted Date
05/20/2025
Salary Range: $29.42 - 42.14 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24435

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As a Surgery Scheduler, responsibilities include providing high quality front desk patient care support in department clinics. Duties include, but are not limited to, answering, screening and responding to patient phone calls, checking patients in/out, scheduling clinic appointments, confirming clinic appointments, assisting patients with scheduling diagnostic tests, preparing charts and documents for clinic visits, filing, assisting with obtaining insurance pre-certifications and referral authorizations, processing requests for medical records, medication refill requests, and assisting with processing disability and return-to-work forms for patients. You will travel and work at other Urology department clinics throughout the community as assigned by the supervisor for coverage. Other duties, as assigned. 

Salary Range: $29.42 - $42.14 hourly

Job Qualifications

Required: 

  • Demonstrated basic knowledge of cancer treatment
  •  Knowledge of medical terminology, particularly urology.
  • Demonstrated basic knowledge of cancer treatment General knowledge of third party   insurances, government programs and other insurance agencies for purposes of assigning financial class codes and obtaining any necessary authorizations for treatment.
  • Ability to research medical diagnosis and procedure codes in CPT Code book and ICD-9_CM code book.
  • Demonstrated computer skills including word-processing, use of spreadsheets and data entry
  • Ability to understand and correctly use technical terminology, correctly identify and extract data from hospital records, enter data on flow sheets or in computer and maintain study records
  • Ability to communicate effectively with medical, nursing and administrative personnel, regulatory agencies and study sponsors, both verbally and via written reports and memos
  • Knowledge of University's Electronic Medical Record System
  • Skill and experience in composing clear and understandable written memos and reports using correct grammar
  • Skill in prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely and accurate manner. 
  • Knowledge of UCLA School of Medicine and hospital nursing processes. 
  • Skill in communicating with patients, families and referring physicians with diplomacy. 
  • Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with physicians, residents, research associates, fellows, students and staff, as well as outside granting agencies. 
  • Superior typing skills to prepare correspondence, reports and other written materials with speed and accuracy
  • Skill in prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely manner when there are changes in workload and assignments, pressures of deadlines, and/or a heavy workload.
  • Ability to work flexible hours and travel to department clinics, as assigned. 
Preferred:
  • Fluent in Spanish
  • Bachelor's degree

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.