Understanding Office Inbox
Overview: Office inbox and buckets review |
Audience: Front Office Support |
Review: The office inbox houses buckets that are specific to administrative duties. Practice Assistants will primarily work out of the respective buckets to accomplish daily tasks and patient requests. Do NOT use the “Claims in Hold” or “Patient Account Holds” buckets.
BUCKETS:
No-Show:
Patients will fall into this bucket 24 hours after their appointment was
supposed to start. If patient was a true No-Show, please follow the No-Show
workflow.
Missing Slips:
Missing slips are the claims associated with an
appointment. A slip will be created when a patient is checked in. Missing slips
should be worked within 48 hours of the appointment and ALL should be closed by
EOD Friday.
Eligibility Issues: Athena
will run eligibility automatically 7 days before an appointment. If there is an
issue with their insurance verification the patient will fall into this bucket.
These should be worked daily to allow enough time for eligibility resolution.
Appointments to Reschedule: Any
time there is a template change for a provider, patients affected by the change
will fall into this bucket. Please reach out to reschedule them.
Appointments to Schedule: These
are Ticklers to inform when and for what type of appointment the provider would
like their patient back for. Schedule the appointment based on the ticker, or
it will not be deleted.
Appointment Requests: If
a patient selects “request an appointment” in their patient portal, the request
will fall into this bucket. Please work daily and first thing in the AM if it
affects today’s schedule.
Patient Cases: This
is the messaging inbox. Patients can send us messages through the portal which
will fall into this bucket. These are also messages from other Geode
professionals that may need to document information regarding the patient.
Admin/Phone Messages: This
bucket houses Protocol reports, Ad Hoc Epion ROI forms that were requested, and
external referral orders.
**Items in these buckets should be worked first thing in the AM if
marked URGENT or if
affecting today’s schedule. All other items should be worked within the same
day and no later than 48 hours **