Healthfirst

Bilingual Support Specialist – English, Mandarin or Cantonese

Healthfirst

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $34,091 - $52,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Conduct outreaches for newly enrolled members to review current and approved services, DME and additional requests
  • Review intake documents for pre-approved services and escalate discrepancies as needed
  • Complete Welcome Onboarding and Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Assessments and identify issues or clinical risks for escalation
  • Initiate and finalize authorizations in Trucare for preapproved services and DMEs; update and discontinue authorizations when applicable
  • Handle and accurately document calls with members regarding benefits, appointments, assessments, service issues, and grievances
  • Handle and accurately document calls with providers regarding authorizations, referrals, visits, tests, and faxed care plans
  • Provide education to members and providers about approval requirements for service requests
  • Manage a large caseload while communicating member issues and monitoring screenings to improve quality and cost outcomes
  • Communicate with inter/intra-departments to reconcile onboarding issues
  • Handle member mailings, fax clinical requests and approved service plans, and other non-clinical support tasks

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED equivalent
  • Experience in a customer service environment
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment that requires handling multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Work experience requiring effective communication verbally and in writing while demonstrating good grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills
  • Associate Degree/Certification in a related field (preferred)
  • Knowledge of medical terminology (preferred)
  • Knowledge of Trucare, Salesforce, HHAXchange, DocuSign Epaces, Sharepoint (preferred)
  • Experience in managed care or other area of the healthcare industry working in a Call Center environment or Care/Case Management Department (preferred)
  • Experience with Microsoft Office Suite applications including Excel, Word, Outlook, and MS Teams
  • English proficient bilingual who also speaks Spanish, Russian, Mandarin/Cantonese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Bengali, Punjabi, Hindi, or Urdu
  • Demonstrated ability to document calls into a computer system