Insurance Preauthorization Clerk
National HealthCare Corporation (NHC)
Hendersonville, TN
Administrative / Clerical
Description
Insurance Preauthorization Clerk
Job Purpose
As an Insurance Authorization Clerk, you play an important role in supporting our center’s admission process. You help ensure a smooth transition for every referral by securing timely insurance verifications and authorizations. Your work strengthens our partnerships, supports our care teams, and helps patients receive the services they need without delay.
Schedule: Monday-Friday
Status: Full Time
Pay: Based on experience
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Obtain insurance authorizations for NHC Skilled Nursing Facilities, Supporting the Metro Region Medicaid Centers
- Verify insurance benefits for incoming referrals.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with partners, centers, referral sources, and insurance companies.
- Track and report monthly authorizations obtained for admissions.
- Collaborate with centers, insurance companies, and referral sources to remove referral or admission barriers (preferred, not required).
- Provide exceptional customer service to Healthcare Centers, insurance companies, and all referral sources.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent computer skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment where procedures cannot be standardized.
- Prior healthcare experience.
- Prior health care insurance - preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Healthcare, or related field preferred.
- Thorough knowledge of funding resources such as Medicare, Managed Care, Single Case Agreements, Scholarships, and other private insurances.
- Enjoy flexible scheduling
- Take time for you with generous PTO—vacation, holidays, and personal days
- Grow your career with tuition reimbursement and advancement opportunities
- Stay covered with medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Plan for your future with a 401(k) and generous contributions
- Provide quality care with supportive patient ratios you can feel good about
If you are interested in working for a leader in senior care and share NHC's values of honesty and integrity, please apply today and find out more about us at https://nhccare.com
We look forward to talking with you!!
EOE
About the company
Company website•Hospitals and Health Care
National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) has been providing the best in senior care for over 50 years. At NHC, we believe that care should respect the individual, promote recovery, wellbeing and independence. We believe in celebrating life every day at our centers.
In NHC communities, we currently operate 80 skilled nursing centers, 26 assisted living communities, 3 behavioral health hospitals, 9 retirement communities, 30 hospice agencies, and 34 homecare agencies. Other services include memory care, senior care pharmacies, hospital, rehabilitation services and management and accounting services to third parties.
NHC is recognized nationwide as an innovator in the delivery of quality long-term care. Our goal has always been to provide a full range of extended care services, designed to maximize the wellbeing and independence of patients of all ages. We are dedicated to meeting patient needs through an interdisciplinary approach combining compassionate care with cost-effective health care services.