Health Maintenance Officer Job in Lagos at Box & Cedar

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Job Title: Health Maintenance Officer
Location: Lagos, NIGERIA


Job Type: Full Time
Experience:  Minimum of 2 years

Job Description:

• Ensure provision of excellent customer service.
• To ensure waste reduction at all operating service point. This includes waste of time and resources
• Ensures accurate registration process for new and existing clients
• Co-ordinates Scheduling of  appointments according to established procedures
• Ensures  reminder calls are made to clients in respect of their appointments
• Ensures continuous training programs that will adequately develop and equip staff to function efficiently and provide necessary support in area of Health Maintenance Organizations.
• Analyzing statistics or other data to determine the level of customer service the hospital is providing most especially as it concerns HMO’s.
• Handling customer complaints or any major incidents, investigating and solving customers' problems and referring as appropriate when need be.
• Liaison officer between the HMO’s and NHIS on issues related to the enrollees
• Liaison officer between the HMO’s and the hospital on issues related to the enrollees
• Ensure that fee for service bills are sent out to the HMO, Retainers as at when due.
• Ensure that only identified enrollees’ access care.
• Ensure that treatment coverage is limited to the guidelines
• Ensure that only well-defined referral qualifies enrollees to access care. All ambiguous referrals must be disqualified.
• Ensures that referrals emanating from the hospital requesting for secondary management are sent out as and when due.
• Ensures that referral approvals with details of the extent of care approved are communicated as appropriate to the necessary unit to provide such care.
• Ensure that Doctors and other members of the healthcare team are well informed on the guidelines of managed healthcare and operate within its bounds.
• Monitor prescriptions for investigations and drugs of MHC patients and prepares statistical analysis of these to serve as an audit tool in ensuring prescribers understand the operations of the scheme.
• Ensures that doctors limit secondary care management to what is approved.
• Ensures that approvals are in line with the guidelines.
• Monitoring and ensuring payment of capitation when due.
• Liaises with corporate relations and accounts units to ensure that clients that have exceeded their credit limits are barred from accessing care.
• Ensure all patients on admission meet up with the admission requirement as indicated in the company’s agreement.
• Ensure referrals are raised and approval is gotten for all managed healthcare secondary care cases on admission
• Ensure that the Hospital software is at time working and collate reports for Management

•         Must have a scientific aptitude and detail oriented
•         Be able to get and analyze information
•         Ability to make good decisions and solve medical related issues
•         Strong communication skills
•         Expert in  Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
•         Multi-Tasking and Prioritizing
•         Good organizational and Managerial skills 
•         Up-to-date with current issues in the medical field
•         Excellent Interpersonal Skills
•         Be able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
•         Assisting and caring for others