Job Description​

The Opportunity:

The Senior Clinical Intake Coordinator facilitates the home health and hospice referral process by receiving referrals from multiple referral sources within and without the St. Luke's Health System, performs initial evaluation of referral for home health appropriateness under Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance regulations, determines need for additional information from referral sources, communicates agency acceptance or decline of referral to varied referral sources, and processes accepted referrals.

Shift:  Monday – Friday, daytime hours.

The Work:

• Facilitates and promotes the Tele-Health services for the agency.

• Provides specialized support for the Patient Accounting and Finance departments.

• Serves as liaison between the patient and facility/physician and the third-party payer.

• Prepares and defends level of care and medical necessity for assigned case.

• Collaborates with physician advisor, payor representative and site case managers to facilitate appropriate level of care decisions and billing status and ensures compliance with the Utilization Review standard and regulations.

• Ensures compliance with home health face to face requirements and county reporting for hospice.

• Periodically participates in remote on-call, evenings, and weekends.

• May require some travel. 

Why Saint Luke’s?

We value our nurses’ knowledge, experience, and expertise to improve patient outcomes and provide quality care. Our nurses are compensated fairly for their hard work and dedication to our patients, we offer competitive salaries and benefits packages to all eligible employees:

• Medical health plans
• Continuing Education Assistance and Tuition reimbursement
• Leave of Absence, PTO, Extended Sick Leave, and various Welfare plans
• Retirement contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Clinical Advancement Program – Shared Governance, Unit Based Project, Career Advancement

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience:

2 years

Family Care Safety Registry - Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, Registered Nurse - Various

Associate Degree - Nursing

Job Details

Full Time

Day (United States of America)

The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.

Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.