Bilingual Premium Surgery Counselor (Las Cruces)

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

As a Surgery Counselor, you’ll be the patient’s guide through the surgery process and are responsible for providing a smooth and exceptional experience. Your strong detail orientation and multi-tasking skills will be essential to our success in our fast-paced, high-volume environment as you schedule surgeries and surgical appointments, verify insurance, and prepare charts for surgery.

This role will be based in Las Cruces, New Mexico but there is some travel that is associated with the role to other locations in the El Paso and Las Cruces area.

Responsibilities

• Schedules all patient surgeries and pre-operative appointments, including those with the patient’s referring physician, surgical facility, ophthalmologist or technician
• Builds relationships with patients, educate patients regarding lens and technology options, overcome objections and close surgical packages
• Prepares surgical charts, labels documents with appropriate surgical paperwork per ASC Coordinator specifications
• Acts as an effective liaison between the patient, surgeon, referring physician, and the surgical facility in all aspects of pre-operative preparations
• Collects all pertinent information for upcoming surgery, such as bookings, lens orders, insurance, and H&Ps and signed consent forms, and transfer to surgical facility.
• Aids patients in obtaining financing if needed
• Schedules post-operative appointments as appropriate
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of company’s services and procedures, and communicates to patients in a way designed to earn patient’s trust and business
• Answer all telephone inquiries from patients, their families, or referring physicians concerning surgery
• Perform other tasks as assigned

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