legionhealth - Remote Patient Experience Operations Medical Virtual Assistant (backed by Y Combinator, $5M+ ARR, $23M+ raised)
Requirements
• Location: Fully remote • Work Hours: 8-hour shift between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM Central Time • Hourly Compensation: $5–$15 per hour, based on experience • 2+ years of experience in a patient-facing support or healthcare-operations role. • Experience in one or more of the following is strongly preferred: • Behavioral health or psychiatry. • Digital health or telehealth. • Healthcare call centers. • Nursing or medical administration. • Pharmacy support. • Insurance or prior-authorization support. • Care coordination. • Exceptional spoken and written English. • Warm, clear, confident, and professional communication on patient phone calls. • Strong patient empathy and the ability to remain calm during sensitive conversations. • Excellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through. • Experience managing a high volume of calls, messages, cases, or patient-support requests. • Familiarity with healthcare workflows such as scheduling, insurance, pharmacies, prior authorizations, refills, medical documentation, and patient forms. • Experience working in a telehealth or healthcare call-center environment is highly preferred. • Comfort using tools such as Dialpad, Slack, Healthie, EHRs, CRMs, ticketing systems, or similar platforms. • Ability to work closely with clinical teams while remaining firmly within a non-clinical scope. • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup where workflows and priorities may evolve. • A clinical or healthcare background—such as medical-assistant, CNA, nursing, behavioral-health, or pharmacy experience—is helpful but not required. • A reliable computer, high-speed internet connection, and quiet, professional environment for patient calls. • The most important qualifications are patient empathy, excellent communication, operational execution, sound judgment, accurate documentation, and reliable follow-through. • ⚕️ Non-Clinical Scope • This is a non-clinical patient-support role. • You will not diagnose patients or assess medical conditions. • You will not provide medical or medication advice. • You will not recommend or make treatment decisions. • You will not interpret symptoms, laboratory results, or clinical records for patients. • You will not approve prescriptions, refills, prior authorizations, or medical documentation. • You will route clinical, medication, safety, and treatment questions to the appropriate licensed team member. • Your responsibility is to support patient communication, logistics, documentation, coordination, and escalation so patients can receive timely care from the appropriate clinical team. • ⚠️ This Role Is Not a Fit If You… • Are uncomfortable speaking with patients regularly by phone. • Prefer work that does not involve emotionally sensitive or occasionally difficult conversations. • Struggle to communicate clearly and professionally in spoken or written English. • Dislike detailed documentation, follow-up queues, or repetitive coordination work. • Frequently lose track of details when managing several conversations or cases. • Wait for repeated instructions instead of proactively following up on unresolved issues. • Are uncomfortable adapting when processes change. • Want to provide clinical advice or make treatment decisions in this role. • Are casual about privacy, documentation, attendance, response times, or follow-through.
Responsibilities
• Respond to patient questions across phone and messaging platforms with clear, accurate, timely, and compassionate communication. • Help patients understand what to expect and what actions they need to take next. • Support appointment scheduling, rescheduling, cancellations, and patient onboarding. • Conduct proactive outreach, reminders, and follow-ups to help patients remain engaged in care. • Follow up with patients who have missed appointments, incomplete tasks, unresolved questions, or other barriers to continuing care. • Support patient-retention workflows by identifying problems early and helping patients reach the correct team or next step. • Coordinate administrative and clinical-support workflows, including: • Prior authorizations: Gather required information, track status, follow up on outstanding steps, and escalate delays. • Prescription and refill requests: Collect the patient’s request, document it accurately, and route it to the appropriate clinical team. • FMLA and documentation requests: Complete intake, gather required information, route the request, track progress, and follow up. • Pharmacy coordination: Help resolve logistical questions and route medication-related decisions to licensed clinical staff. • Insurance and billing questions: Gather context and coordinate with the appropriate internal team. • General patient administration: Manage follow-ups, forms, records requests, and cross-functional coordination. • Document every material patient interaction accurately so teammates and clinicians understand what happened, what remains outstanding, and who owns the next step. • Maintain clear follow-up queues and ensure unresolved patient needs do not fall through the cracks. • Recognize urgent, sensitive, clinical, or safety-related concerns and follow the appropriate escalation procedure immediately. • Coordinate with clinical operations, providers, billing, pharmacy-support, and other internal teams to resolve patient concerns. • Communicate realistic expectations without making promises outside your authority. • Follow approved scripts, SOPs, privacy requirements, and escalation protocols. • Identify recurring patient questions, delays, and sources of confusion and share actionable feedback with the appropriate teams. • Help improve patient-support templates, scripts, checklists, and standard operating procedures. • Use approved systems consistently and maintain a reliable, high-speed internet connection and professional environment for patient calls. • Protect patient privacy and handle sensitive information according to Legion’s policies and approved systems. • Consistently aim to deliver the best possible experience for every patient and family. • 🏆 You’ll Be Successful If You… • Make patients feel heard, respected, and supported—even when they are frustrated, worried, or confused. • Communicate clearly and professionally in both spoken and written English. • Explain next steps simply without sounding robotic, rushed, dismissive, or overly technical. • Respond promptly and follow through consistently until each issue is resolved or transferred to the correct owner. • Help patients remain engaged in care by reducing preventable confusion, delays, and administrative barriers. • Manage multiple patient conversations and follow-up tasks without losing important details. • Produce concise, accurate documentation that enables other teammates to act without repeating the entire conversation. • Distinguish between administrative support and clinical decision-making. • Recognize when an issue is outside your scope and escalate it promptly through the correct channel. • Stay calm and use sound judgment during sensitive or emotionally difficult conversations. • Learn Legion’s care model, patient workflows, systems, scripts, and escalation paths quickly. • Follow established processes while identifying opportunities to make patient support faster, clearer, and more reliable. • Adapt constructively as workflows change in a growing startup. • Earn the trust of patients, clinicians, and teammates through empathy, reliability, discretion, and excellent follow-through.
Benefits
• $5 – $15 per hour • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Passionate about delivering exceptional patient experiences with empathy and care • exceptional patient experiences with empathy and care • Extremely detail-oriented; committed to accuracy and follow-through • Extremely detail-oriented • Energized by true ownership—i.e., you won't just wait for others to tell you what to do. • i.e., you won't just wait for others to tell you what to do. • Highly fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills • Highly fluent in English • Does that sound like you? • Shifts are typically eight hours long, with consistent start and end times each scheduled day. Your shift may be assigned anywhere within our 6:00 AM–10:00 PM Central Time operating window, but you will not work the entire 16-hour period. • Depending on staffing needs, your regular schedule could include Saturday, Sunday, or both. You will not necessarily be scheduled to work both weekend days. • Please answer in US Dollars per hour. • Select all that apply. Include a tool only if you personally used it in the last 30 days to complete a real task or create an output that you or someone else actually used—not if you only watched a demo or briefly experimented with it. • Options are grouped and alphabetized in this order: General assistants and autonomous work; Engineering; Design, video, and audio. “Other” appears last within each section. • We care far more about what you accomplished than how many tools you have tried. • Microsoft Copilot • Other general-purpose AI assistant or work agent • Amazon Q Developer • Augment Code/Auggie • Gemini Code Assist • Other engineering AI tool (e.g., coding, debugging, testing, infrastructure, deployment, or code review) • Canva Magic Studio • Other creative AI tool (e.g., product or visual design, prototyping, image, video, voice, or audio) • Other AI tool not listed above • I have not used an AI tool to complete real work in the last 30 days • Topic: You’re welcome to share anything you wish, but an example from your professional experience that more closely matches this role’s responsibilities is likely to be most impactful. • Topic • Key Challenges: What made this effort difficult? How did you approach key trade-offs or obstacles? • Key Challenges: • Results: Share any metrics, outcomes, or evidence that demonstrate the impact of your work? • Results: • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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