This is an excellent opportunity for a customer-focused professional who wants to make healthcare easier to navigate and improve the experience of members accessing essential services. As a Member Navigator, you will serve as a primary point of contact, helping members understand their benefits, access appropriate providers, coordinate appointments, and resolve routine questions. You will manage cases from initial contact through resolution, ensuring accurate documentation, timely follow-ups, and effective communication across healthcare teams. Working closely with members, providers, clinical professionals, and internal partners, you will help remove barriers to care and support a seamless healthcare journey. This role combines customer service, administrative coordination, and problem-solving in a technology-driven healthcare environment. With a fully remote setup, structured weekday hours, and comprehensive benefits, you will have the opportunity to contribute to better healthcare access while developing your professional skills.
Member Support and Communication: Serve as the primary non-clinical contact for members through phone, email, and other communication channels, providing timely, professional, empathetic, and accurate assistance.
Benefits and Program Education: Explain healthcare programs, eligibility requirements, benefits, available services, provider options, applicable processes, and next steps in clear, accessible language.
Information Collection and Verification: Gather, verify, and document member demographics, eligibility details, benefits information, referrals, service requirements, and other relevant case information.
Case Management and Resolution: Manage assigned member cases from initial intake through resolution, research questions, resolve routine issues independently, monitor progress, and coordinate follow-ups to ensure timely outcomes.
Appointment and Service Coordination: Coordinate imaging appointments and other applicable healthcare services by identifying appropriate providers, facilitating scheduling, confirming appointment details, and communicating updates to members and providers.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with case management, clinical staff, clients, providers, and internal departments to coordinate services, support members requiring additional assistance, and facilitate appropriate clinical review when needed.
Escalation and Barrier Resolution: Identify potential obstacles to care, service delays, sensitive issues, and non-standard requests, escalating clinical or complex matters to the appropriate teams in accordance with established procedures.
Documentation and System Management: Maintain accurate, complete, and timely records of member interactions, scheduling activities, case progress, outcomes, and follow-up requirements in CRM, scheduling, case management, and other departmental systems.
Provider and Partner Relationships: Build productive working relationships with healthcare facilities, providers, clients, and external partners to promote effective communication and timely service delivery.
Administrative and Operational Support: Assist with claims-related activities, administrative tasks, and other operational processes associated with member cases as required.
Quality and Performance: Meet established service-level agreements, productivity targets, quality standards, documentation requirements, and member satisfaction expectations.
Program Flexibility and Cross-Training: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of supported programs, policies, systems, and business initiatives, and adapt to different workflows, queues, and responsibilities as operational needs change.
Process Improvement: Collaborate with colleagues and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to improve workflows, increase operational efficiency, and enhance the overall member experience.
Compliance and Confidentiality: Follow established security procedures and applicable healthcare privacy requirements, including protecting sensitive member information in accordance with HIPAA and organizational policies.