RN Inpatient Authorization

This Work from Home position requires that you live and will perform the duties of the position; within 60 miles of an HCA Healthcare Hospital (Our hospitals are located in the following states: FL, GA, ID, KS, KY, MO, NV, NH, NC, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA).

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: RN Inpatient Authorization

Job Summary and Qualifications

This position will focus on initial and continued to stay utilization review as needed for authorization procurement and mitigation of concurrent denials. This involves assessing the medical record for appropriateness and level of care provided, including assessment of treatment modalities, medications, services, and application of treatment protocols. Remain current with HCA education standards and guidelines, such as annual InterQual education, ongoing Midas education, and Midas worklist rules. Maintain nursing licensure for assigned geographical market and productivity.

What you will do in this role

• Conduct medical record review, validate admission status order, conduct a medical necessity review and provide clinical information to the payor

• Document all efforts to gain authorization and payor communications, confirming all days authorized or denied and document in Midas

• Utilize critical thinking skills to review and apply medical necessity criteria • Proficient in the application and use of InterQual

• Analyze documentation of clinical care from the electronic medical record

• Exhibit determined and assertive verbal and written communication skills when interacting with payors

• Demonstrate knowledge and effective use of multiple applications, systems, and resources

• Example, but not limited to: Call Recording, WebEx Teams, Electronic Health Records, Payor portals, Right Fax, SharePoint sites and Onbase

• Communicate with physicians regarding patient status, clinical documentation, and concurrent denial mitigation strategies

What qualifications you will need

• Associates degree in Nursing required

• 1+ year(s) of experience in InterQual required

• Strong clinical background with 2-4 years of nursing experience required

• 1 – 3 years of relevant case management/utilization review experience preferred

• Registered Nurse - Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state in which he or she resides and practices, in accordance with law and regulation required

• Multi-state nursing licensure for compact states required

Benefits

PDU Other, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Parallon provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers and their communities.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our RN Inpatient Authorization opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.