UCLA Health

Patient Service Representative - Pediatrics, Westwood

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Job Description


General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
04/16/2026
Salary Range $30.36 - 43.49 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indifinate
Job #
29850


Primary Duties and Responsibilities


We are looking for a knowledgeable and patient-centered team member to join our dynamic multi-specialty Pediatrics team!
This position will support multiple specialties such as Endocrinology, Allergy, and other areas. As a Patient Service Representative, you will support the Children's Health Center in Westwood by providing vital administrative support to our pediatric patients and physicians. You will help guide patients through the health system and collaborate closely with physicians to ensure patients receive comprehensive timely care. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Obtain prior authorizations
  • Advocate for patients in insurance claims
  • Referral processing
  • Address in-basket messages
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Review of provider schedules
  • Coordinate hospital admissions and/or procedures

Salary Range: $30.36-43.49 Hourly


Job Qualifications


Our ideal candidate will have strong background in authorizations, referral coordination, and direct collaboration with providers, ideally gained within a fast-paced medical setting, who can effectively navigate complex clinical environment.
Required:

  • Skill in setting priorities which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.
  • Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with Faculty, Staff, Administration and patients from various social, cultural and economic backgrounds.
  • Ability to creatively integrate competing demands into a productive working environment.
  • Skill in verbal communications to clearly convey complex problems in both formal and informal situations.
  • Ability to interact diplomatically and sympathetically with a patient population in varying degrees of health.

Highly Desired:

  • Experience with medical insurance and authorization/referral processing.
  • Experience working with in-baskets.
  • Knowledge of specific specialty practice and/or large medical institutions.


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

UCLA Health

About UCLA Health

For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.

Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.

Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Year Founded
1955
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