· Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
· Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
· Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families.
· Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
· Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
· Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
· Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other
  appropriate facility staff.
· Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure
  initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
· Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.
· Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary
  treatment team.
· Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
· Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.

RN license, CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).

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