Job Overview

The Intake Team Lead has primary responsibility and accountability for managing the daily Intake workflow for their regional team ensuring the accurate and timely entry of referrals; obtaining medical records, insurance verification, ordering DME, sending electronic consent forms, reviewing consents with POA are completed in an efficient and accurate manner, facilitating conversion of referrals to evaluations.

Essential Functions

This is meant to be a general description of the most essential functions of this role. Other duties may be assigned.

Oversees team staff to ensure that all Intake tasks are completed in an accurate and timely manner. Monitors Team Intake Email box and electronic faxes; prioritizes tasks and assigns to Intake coordinators. Audits their team referrals and workflow entries on a daily basis. Resolves technical and process issues that could negatively impact the referral process. Schedules and facilitates stand up/down calls with branches to ensure status of pending referrals is accurately recorded. Tracks pending referral statuses to ensure patients are evaluated in a timely manner. Designates phone call coverage for Intake and overflow calls. Escalate concerns and trends that are delaying the referral to admission process.  Responsible for branch calendars and monitoring of the results of a scheduled evaluation to ensure proper follow-up