Scheduling Specialist - Peripheral Vascular Disease - La Jolla
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Scripps Health is hiring a Scheduling Specialist for the Peripheral Vascular Disease department at Scripps Anderson Medical Pavilion in La Jolla. The role supports patients by coordinating registration, scheduling, referrals and authorizations, payments, and check-in functions. It also involves responding to billing inquiries, mentoring staff, documenting patient communications, and helping resolve customer concerns.
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Full job description
This is aFull**Timeposition (80 hours per pay period) with a Monday - Friday, 8AM - 5PM schedule, located at our Scripps Anderson Medical Pavilion in La Jolla. You will enjoy comprehensive benefits that cover health & wellness, career development, and retirement options among other benefits.
Why join Scripps Health? At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered and your abilities are appreciated:
- Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
- Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2026.
- Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
- Becker’s Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2026 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
- We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
- Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.
Join a caring team supporting Scripps Anderson Medical Pavilion as a Scheduling Specialist in the Peripheral Vascular Disease department. You'll be on the front line for creating a positive Scripps Health experience for our patients while being responsible for duties such as the following:
- Interacting with patients, payers, and providers to gather information necessary for accurate registration including assigning of appropriate Medical Record Number, scheduling, referral/authorization, point of service payment collection, document collection and arrival/check-in functions.
- Responding to customer billing and payment inquires as needed.
- Mentoring and training staff on departmental procedures.
- Accurately scheduling and re-scheduling complex patient procedures and appointments. Successful scheduling includes, but not limited to, exhibiting proficiency in the scheduling procedures, scheduling and confirming appointments according to practice guidelines, entering appropriate insurance, initiating authorizations and referrals, performing Key User duties with minimal errors.
- Accurately documenting patient to provider communication, assessing urgency and escalating as appropriate. May manage the patient check-in and check-out process from start to finish, which includes identification verification; updating or confirming demographic and insurance information on every patient; ensuring appropriate forms are provided, signed and witnessed at the time of the patient visit; verifying coverage including benefits, authorization, pre-determination, payer specific policy exclusions or limitations to coverage, collecting any patient responsibility and accurately preparing end of day reporting or payment reconciliation as needed.
- Regularly displaying a proactive approach to customer service by listening to the patient, taking ownership of solutions and being able to accurately identify the need to involve leadership to resolve concerns.
Required Qualifications:
- Must possess excellent mathematical skills and ability to handle monies.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills; innovative with ability to identify and solve problems. Able to adapt, prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Knowledge of medical terminology, commercial and government health insurance and billing guidelines, ACA requirements, understanding of DRG's, Medical ICD9/ICD10 codes and CPT/HCPC Codes and Modifiers are required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 or more years of experience in a customer service or healthcare/medical office environment.
- Previous scheduling experience.
- Experience with Epic.
Job: *Business Office
Organization: *Scripps Clinic
Title: Scheduling Specialist - Peripheral Vascular Disease - La Jolla
Location: Central San Diego County-LA JOLLA-SCF-ANDERSON MEDICAL PAVILION
Requisition ID: 262005908
How this job compares
Set against the 655 open Patient Registration jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$25–33/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 39 open Patient Registration jobs in California and 655 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- Patient Registration postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (357 postings).
- Education
- 2 of the 655 open Patient Registration jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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