Registered Nurse Coordinator (If you are not a RN don't apply!)

The Nursing Coordinator Lead has primary responsibility for scheduling new nursing and ongoing visits and distributing workflow in the department to assure that both new nursing visits and ongoing nursing visits are completed timely and within start of care and patient time expectations.
Responsibilities:
• Coordinate and track regularly scheduled visits as well as assure all tea ---------- mbers have completed their staffing of visits per timelines and policies
• Communicate assignment of new patients and ongoing primary nursing to field staff and assuring that ongoing patients are assigned to FTE Staff and Per Diem staff in conjunction with territory management plan
• Obtains authorizations and re-authorizations as required by payers for nursing visits as needed
• Provides Infusion treatment plans to physicians and maintains communication logs and follow-ups on any POTs that are lagging in completion > 30 days with our nursing staff
• Tracks and assigns patient visits to agencies as required and assures tea ---------- mbers utilize proper territory and fiscal management techniques when assigning to outside agencies
• Works with outside agencies as the lead in communication of procurement of nursing notes, statements and invoices as needed
• Communicates with other departments regarding the status of visit schedule
• Notifies patients/families regarding their established and ongoing nurse visits and assure smooth communication with the team to patients/caregivers and field and internal tea ---------- mbers
• Understands which companies have active contracts with us EIS
• Collaborates with Intake and Pharmacy team to schedule visits on new and ongoing nurse visit needs
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information.