Transcriptionist Workflow Coordinator - Derm Pathology

Responsibilities:

• Supervises daily work flow throughout the transcription room.

• Distributes work to the transcriptionists to take advantage of each employee’s strengths.

• Re-open, reject and corrects Newpath cases when practice manager is away from desk.

• Add addendums and amendments on pathology reports.

• Organizes and distributes pathology requisitions to the pathologists for signature and approval (done every 20 minutes throughout the day).

• Implements policies to improve turnaround time for transcription.

• Serves as the primary trainer for new transcriptionists.

• Responsible for monitoring and making corrections to cases that populate on invalid billing list, this includes special stains and ICD-10 errors.

• Assist IT with the testing of newly implemented ICD-10 codes.

• Assist Dermatopathology Fellows with dictations before they are presented to Dermatopathologists for review and signature.

• Follow-up with both registration and referring physician on incorrect or incomplete information that may prevent a patient’s biopsy report from being released.

• Maintain the medical diagnosis X-code list by adding and/or removing new/old codes.

• Update referring physician address and add new referring physicians to the newpath data base.

• Provides direct support to 7 Dermatopathologists.

• Assist practice manager with administrative duties for other positions throughout the department when needed (Call Center, Transcription, Reading Room and Report Mail Breakdown).

• Transcribes, codes, types, and/or inputs dictations and demographics.

• Transcribes and prioritizes dictations and complicated pathology consultation reports. Produces final copy as required.

• Responsible for filing and retrieving reports and/or slides.

• Maintains records and generates reports (i.e., problem billing cases for proper identification/follow-up).

• Breakdown and mails/faxes reports to appropriate physicians, clinicians, and/or organizations (i.e., Quest). Records faxing of this same subset of reports.

• Gives verbal (phone) Pathology Reports to physicians.

• Researches pending and incomplete cases.

• Generates and/or reviews reports and slides to be sent to outside physicians, makes corrections as necessary, and collates to mail.

• Contacts physician’s office concerning patient diagnoses.

• Answers the telephone, handles direct patient and physician’s requests, and responds for written correspondence from patients, insurance carriers, and/or physician’s offices. Independently resolves issues when necessary.

• Follows directives and completes other duties assigned by supervisor, managers and physicians.

• Inform supervisor of problem cases.

• Inform coworkers or supervisor of anything that is pending on your desk.

• Serves as back up to sign out clerk and special stain clerk and call center clerks

• If requested, assists physicians with transcribing diagnoses onto protocols, pulls old slides and reports at the request of the staff physician, and orders recuts and special stains from the laboratory.

• Pulls slides and reports as requested.

• Completes work within assigned and/or communicated time frames.

• Ensures effective utilization of materials, staff and financial resources.

• Utilizes all available tools and resources.

• Deliver slides to in-house physicians.

• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures

• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

Credentials:

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• H.S. Diploma/GED
• 5+ years Advanced clerical/secretarial experience in an office setting and experience in a position performing related duties.

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