EMPANELMENT COORDINATOR

EMPANELMENT COORDINATOR

JPS Health Network is a $950 million, tax-supported healthcare system in North Texas. Licensed for 582 beds, the network features over 25 locations across Tarrant County, with John Peter Smith Hospital a Level I Trauma Center, Tarrant County's only psychiatric emergency center, and the largest hospital-based family medical residency program in the nation. The health network employs more than 7,200 people.

The Empanelment Coordinator is responsible for maintaining, updating, and managing the clinician-patient panels for Primary Care.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities :

• Ensures that each patient is assigned a Primary Care Provider.
• Empanels New Patients to providers and correct empanelment errors.
• Reviews documentation and makes decisions as to which provider should be assigned a particular patient.
• Reassigns patients as necessary based on algorithm or supervisor recommendation.
• Communicates with patients to ensure they are assigned to the appropriate clinician.
• Manages provider panel size and patient continuity (e.g. re-empanel changes to ensure appropriate access to care).
• Makes template change recommendations based on changes in clinician panel sizes.
• Instructs, and coaches new empanelment coordinators to job duties and functions.
• Maintains strict patient confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA policy.
• Monitors and reports on current empanelment status during regularly scheduled meetings with providers and the care team.
• Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Location Address : 200 W. Magnolia Fort Worth, Texas, 76104 United States