What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Call Center position at Corewell Health?
- Responds to providers, clinical staff or patient clinical inquires via phone, email, chat, PerfectServe or EMR, and in doing so ensures exceptional customer experiences and confirms customer’s understanding of information.
- Assesses complexity and priority of work and escalates processing/calls/resulting as appropriate, and documents all relevant clinical information and summary of interactions in EMR.
- Contacts providers, patients or staff with sensitive (I.e. HIPAA/PHI information) or critical clinical information related to patient laboratory testing in a timely manner.
- May processes specimens shipped to outside labs according to laboratory protocol and federal shipping guidelines to ensure specimen integrity, appropriateness of specimen and volume, accurate test orders and test information.
- Collaborates with other departments to determine the root cause of specimen or testing issues and creates an appropriate follow up so the issues are addressed and performs service recovery as needed.
- May perform patient registration, billing functions and/or high complexity/regulatory collections.
- Verifies test results, distributes client reports, including specialty reports and reportable results, according to established schedules and protocols; handles STAT, phone and fax requests per established protocols.
- Investigation of test availability, pricing, specimen requirements, and oversight of send-out cost containment and proper test utilization.
- Required High School Diploma or equivalent
- Preferred Associate's Degree
- 1 year of relevant experience Related call center, specimen processing, and/or customer service experience. Required
Primary Location
SITE - Blodgett Hospital - 1840 Wealthy St SE- Grand RapidsDepartment Name
Lab - Call Center - GREmployment Type
Part timeShift
Variable (United States of America)Weekly Scheduled Hours
4Hours of Work
VariableDays Worked
VariableWeekend Frequency
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