Job Summary

The role holder will be responsible for ensuring that Heritage customers receive affordable, accessible, cost-effective and high-quality healthcare services.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain constant contact with hospitals to ensure the continuous well-being of all the stakeholders and handling of medical claims with efficiency and accuracy.
•  Pre-authorise scheduled and non-scheduled admissions within the set guidelines
•  Liaise with the hospitals and doctors for prompt discharge plan of the admitted members.
•  Assess and authenticate inpatient and outpatient medical claim documents
•  Ensure smooth discharge process and co-ordinate any necessary post-hospitalisation care
•  Pre screening and vetting of inpatient, outpatient and reimbursements claims to ensure adherence to agreed tariffs and clinical protocols, with clear documented notes in case of decline and any discount offered by the providers
•  Conduct hospital visits and monitoring of inpatient bills
•  Daily monitoring of interim bills & appropriate interventions for high quality of care.
•  Daily status reporting of the clinical status of the admitted members.
•  Contact centre management, pre-authorization approvals on payments and responding to member and provider enquiries
•  Ensure timely notification to the stakeholder team of all the declined cases as per the policy guidelines.
•  Timely resolution of all the complaints raised by clients
•  Responding to all clients and providers requests within 24 hours
•  Ensure all counter guaranteed and roaming cases have official letters before approvals are done.
•  Authorization of maternity bookings and wellness letters are issued within 24hrs.
•  Monitoring client with chronic diseases by ensuring managed health care forms are completed by the doctors for proper follow up and management.
•  Health talks, wellness and check-ups management with providers and all stake holders
•  Ensure inculcation of the TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) culture

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Medicine, Nursing, Clinical Medicine or Pharmacy
• Progress towards Diploma in Insurance will be an added advantage
•  1 year experience in a healthcare setting