Admissions Counselor

Job description

Overview ​ PURPOSE STATEMENT: ​Clinical professional is responsible for facilitating admissions, clinical intake assessments, and utilization review processes to assure continuity for the most appropriate level of care for patients and their benefit/resource utilization. Responsibilities: ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: ​ - ​Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes. - ​Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families. - ​Perform benefit eligibility to ensure patient benefits are active at the time of admission. Communicate benefit eligibility to the business office and the patient or significant other. - ​Collaborate with facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations regarding pending referrals. - ​Coordinate admission and transfer from referral sources and between levels of care within the facility. - ​Maintain knowledge of milieu management. - ​Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representatives promptly. - ​Ensure all clinical information from referral sources or patients (including medical comorbidity information) is received, when possible, prior to patient admission. - ​Schedul...