Qureos Mentor

City of Hope

<div><div>Thank you for your interest. Please note, the purpose of this posting is to recruit for on-going and future positions.
<ul><li>For consideration, please email your resume to Dr. Jianjun Chen at jianchen@coh.org</li><li>
Pay Rate: $33.00-$42.07 per hour</li></ul>
Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research.
Dr. Jianjun Chen&rsquo;s lab in the Systems Biology Department in the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope is in search of a Research Associate II (RA II). Dr. Chen&rsquo;s lab is interested in RNA/DNA cancer epigenetics studies (focusing on both basic and translational research). The ultimate goal of the laboratory is to translate the laboratory discoveries into the development and application of effective novel therapeutic strategies to treat cancers in the clinic.
For more information about Dr. Chen&rsquo;s lab, please visit here.
As a successful candidate, you will:<ul><li>
Assist with laboratory research by providing technical support, preparing, and arranging reagents, managing mouse colonies, and overseeing stock ordering and inventory.</li><li>
Perform mouse handling, including husbandry, injections including drug-treatments, proficiency in collection of submandibular blood of mice.</li><li>
Conduct bulk plasmid purification, PCR, gel electrophoresis, genotyping, Western blotting.</li><li>
Maintain adherent and suspension cell cultures.</li><li>
Test out new reagents/products for potential lab use.</li><li>
Additional consideration for applicants with previous clearance for animal irradiation and/or previous experience in flow cytometry for quantification of xenograft engraftment.</li></ul></div><div>
Your qualifications should include:<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree. Master&rsquo;s degree preferred.</li><li>
Two years related research/ laboratory experience with a Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or one year related research/ laboratory experience with a Master&rsquo;s degree.</li></ul>
Preferred qualifications:<ul><li>
Meticulous record keeping, impeccable organization and proficiency with databases.</li><li>
Exceptional managerial and organizational skills.</li><li>
Excellent written and verbal communication.</li><li>
Strong work ethic, highly motivated, and work well independently and in a team.</li><li>
Experience with genetic mouse models, RNA biology, tissue culture, cellular and molecular biology techniques is a big plus.</li></ul>
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. 
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. 
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.</div></div>

Research Associate II - RNA and DNA Cancer Epigenetics

<div><div>Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope&rsquo;s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Summary
Under the general direction of a supervisor or manager, responsible for performing pre-registration functions and obtaining authorizations from various insurance carriers. This role requires a high level of independent judgement in order to successfully coordinate and obtain authorization requests for complex managed care patients in a timely and efficient manner. This individual is expected to utilize telecommunications and computer information systems to pre-register patients, verify information and insurance, and obtain authorizations. The Financial Clearance Specialist is best defined as a highly independent and flexible resource that focuses on system-specific service lines that are in alignment with the patient experience initiative. Furthermore, this role must multi-task between different patient care areas to ensure an extraordinary patient experience and that quality standards are met. Additional duties include, but are not limited to physician and patient communication serving as an information resource.
Key Responsibilities include:
Referral Coordination<ul><li>
Identifies insurance companies requiring prior authorization for services and obtains authorization. Coordinates authorizations for procedures and testing requested by providers for their managed care patient. Reviews charts on outpatients and reports to third party payors. Retrieves chemo/surgery orders from chart, and requesting authorization through the insurance companies. Prepares all forms required by third party payor for treatment authorization requests. Work on all pending utilization review patients, and achieve authorization for the following day. Getting emergent authorizations from walk-in patients. Verifying with the insurance companies and documents what needs to be pre-certified.</li><li>
Educates patient of their insurance policy. Composes letters and memoranda from physician dictation, or verbal direction for submission to insurance companies to obtain authorization or appeal denials. Maintains current records on managed care patients.</li><li>
Keeps Case Managers updated on all BMO and BMT patients.</li></ul>
Pre-Registration<ul><li>
Performs pre-registration functions prior to the patient appointment (including, but not limited to: obtains and/or verifies demographic, clinical, financial, insurance information, service eligibility, consent forms, and patient/guarantor information for pre-registered accounts).</li><li>
Contacts patients, payers, or other departments to confirm and verify insurance and demographic information. Refers patients to financial counselors to resolve insurance or payments issues.</li><li>
Identifies and resolves issues by working with patients, payors, and/or other CoH departments and personnel in a single interaction with the patient. Identifies patients with &ldquo;share of cost&rdquo; or co-payments by performing pricing estimations, and notifies patients of their expected patient liability and financial responsibility.</li><li>
Collects patient/guarantor liabilities and refers patients who are uninsured/underinsured to Financial Counselor for charity, financial assistance or governmental program screening and application processes.</li><li>
Notifies CoH contracting department of patients with a non-contracted insurance to prepare a Letter of Agreement (LOA) should patient to pursue services at COH and informs patient of approval status.</li><li>
Performs activities required to financial clearance for all patient types. Frequent communications will occur with patients/family members/guarantors, physicians/office staff, medical center and payors.</li></ul>
Customer Service<ul><li>
Ensure a high level of customer service by greeting, being a resource to patients and visitors. Serve as a liaison between patients and support staff. Develop effective relationships with colleague, physicians, providers, leaders and other employees across the organization. Demonstrates genuine interest in helping our patients, providers and other employees by using excellent communication skills, being polite, friendly, patient and calm under pressure.</li><li>
Managing multiple, changing priorities in an effective and organized manger, under stressful demand while maintaining exceptional service. Maintain composure when dealing with difficult situations and responding professionally. Independently recognize a high priority situation, taking appropriate and immediate action. Effectively communicates with service delivery and other departments to resolve issues that impact patient care and escalating issues that cannot be resolved in accordance with departmental guidelines. Answering daily phone calls and pages from doctors, patients, employees and insurance companies. 
Quality Assurance</li><li>
Maintains appropriate level of productivity and accuracy for work performed based on department standards. Maintains thorough knowledge of policies, procedures, and standard work within the department in order to successfully performance duties on a day-to-day basis.</li></ul>
Miscellaneous Duties<ul><li>
Performs other departmental duties as assigned, such as answering and making phone calls, managing incoming/outgoing faxes, organizing and filing departmental documents, inventorying supplies, data entry, etc.</li></ul></div><div>
Your qualifications should include:<ul><li>
High School Diploma.</li><li>
Three years related healthcare pre-registration/referral experience required.</li><li>
Medical terminology and electronic medical record experience required.</li></ul> 
Preferred education experience and skills:<ul><li>
At least two years front desk oncology practice experience registering patients and scheduling appointments.</li><li>
EPIC EMR experience.</li></ul>
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.</div></div>

Financial Clearance Specialist – Established Clinical Network

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Research Associate II - RNA and DNA Cancer Epigenetics

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