Settlement Processor jobs in Brewster, NY

SIGN ON BONUS $5,000 FOR EXTERNAL CANDIDATES

Optum in the tri-state region (formerly CareMount Medical, ProHEALTH New York and Riverside Medical Group) offers an interconnected network that enables us to work collaboratively to better coordinate care among our doctors and care teams. Together, we offer you and your family access to more than 2,100 providers, representing 70 specialties, working in 360 medical practices and more than 55 urgent care locations across New York, New Jersey, and Southern Connecticut. For more information, visit www.optum.com/tri.  

ProHealth is one of the largest private multi-specialty medical practices in the Northeast and has been serving the health needs of Long Island and the Greater New York Metropolitan area since 1997. With over 900 providers in 300 locations, our goal is to provide quality health care to ensure that our patients get the right care at the right time. 

At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

The group has always maintained a firm commitment to each of our patients...to provide high quality medical and surgical care in a warm, friendly setting, and in a caring manner. Each and every member of our professional and support staff is dedicated to this ideal - physicians, nurses, technicians and support personnel.

Position Overview: Provides laboratory services for the following: receive, sort, identify, process, and distribute specimens to all technical sections. Enter requisition information and patient results into the computer system; call statistical results, answer phone, code charge slips, train new employees and perform related clerical duties.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Accessions or verifies previously accessioned orders in the Order Management System
• Makes corrections to orders as needed before receiving them into the Lab System
• Places barcode labels appropriately onto specimens received
• Centrifuges specimens appropriately
• Prepares and labels aliquots of specimens to various laboratory departments
• Prepares send out manifests for reference lab work and packs specimens according to manifest
• Calls the reference lab as needed to verify specimen requirements and to arrange special handling of specimens
• Alerts the supervisor to improperly collected specimens or mislabeled specimens
• Expedites add on testing by locating a previously collected specimen and building an order
• Performs phlebotomy on a limited emergent basis if properly training to do so
• Maintains a chain of custody for irreplaceable specimens according to MKMG policies
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Rectifies reference lab pending logs and posts results that are held in the fix queue
• Performs related work as required

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.