Ready to make a difference in behavioral health—without leaving home?
Acadia Healthcare is looking for Remote Registered Nurse Admissions Services Specialists to support our Acute Behavioral Health Facilities nationwide.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Work Style: 100% Remote

What you’ll do:

• Verify benefits for assigned facilities
• Monitor and process patient referrals (including fax referrals)
• Respond to inquiries within policy timeframes
• Support admissions teams across the country
• Work one weekend day shift (Friday, Saturday, or Sunday)

What we’re looking for:
✔ RN with BSN (required)
✔ Master’s degree preferred (MSN, MHA, MPH, or related)
✔ Familiarity with behavioral health services and admissions processes
✔ Understanding of insurance reimbursement practices
✔ Tech-savvy with Salesforce, Concur, and MS Office

At Acadia Healthcare, we’re passionate about helping individuals with co-occurring mood, addiction, and trauma disorders. Our admissions team plays a critical role in making that happen—and you could be part of it.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Manage Referral Management Portals
• Monitor all faxed referrals
• Monitor all webforms and call center handoffs/rollover referrals
• Utilize facility admissions/exclusionary criteria to process incoming types of referrals
• Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Document calls inside of Salesforce and follow-up as needed
• Complete Prior Authorization
• Pre-Admit the patients in billing system
• Coordinate with local admissions department regarding bed availability
• Facilitate intake, admissions, and utilization review process for incoming patients.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information to appropriate internal staff.
• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations for referrals.
• Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
• Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.

STANDARD EXPECTATIONS:

• Complies with organizational policies, procedures, performance improvement initiatives and maintains organizational and industry policies regarding confidentiality.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to person(s) receiving services and their family members, guests and other members of the health care team.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Licensure, as required for the area of clinical specialty, i.e., RN license as designated by the state in which the facility operates.

SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS:

This position is an Individual Contributor

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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