| Location: NHRMC Heart Center Department: Heart&Vascular Institute Assoc Full Time Equivalent: FTE: 1.000000 Work Type: 64 to 80 Hours Pay Period Work Schedule: ENTERSCHED - Please Select Schedule! Exempt from Overtime: Exempt: No |
| Summary:
Working under the supervision of the Manager, the Sr Patient Experience Rep greets patients and other visitors in a polite manner. Responsible for insurance eligibility, updating demographics / insurance information, collecting / posting co-pays. Additionally serves as a front desk liaison, answering phones and scheduling appointments as needed. Responsible for performing a variety of clerical duties. The Sr Patient Experience Rep is expected to participate in the education of the staff and must have the ability to make decisions and solve problems.
Responsibilities:
PRIMARY JOB DUTIES
Responsibility I: NHRMC Standards of Performance
• Ownership – responsible for all outcomes of efforts and actions
• Teamwork – demonstrates a willingness to assist co-workers and to accept additional assignments as requested to support the department efficiently by acting as a team player and working well with others
• Communication – acknowledge patients and co-workers, listen attentively while maintaining eye contact and speaking to them directly and respectfully
• Compassion – Be an advocate for patients, families and teammates. Show them you care and always follow up.
Responsibility II: Daily Preparation / Check-in
• Maintains reception area, to include waiting room
• Verifies insurance eligibility
• Prints all encounter forms for each day appointments
• Ensures that all patients are greeted in a timely manner
• Provide necessary forms to new patients, updates information on existing patients, reviews for accuracy and scans/copies all insurance cards. Notifies the clinical staff when the patient is ready
• Monitors waiting rooms and communicates wait times to patients
• Responsible for applying information on all insurance plans, correctly identifying and entering FSC into IDX
• Collects co-pays and logs them appropriately at the time of check in
• Contact patients by telephone to communicate scheduling information within established time frames
o New patients reminder telephone calls are made within 24 hours of scheduled appt
o Patients who are “no-show” are called within 24 hours of their missed appt
o New patient referrals are contacted within 24 hours to schedule first appt
• Pulls charts for nurses to prepare for patients visits
• Appropriately documents all non essential personnel coming on site in the log book
• Organizes check-in/check-ut tasks, coordinates workflow patterns and serves as a senior resource for issues and concerns presented by patients/Customers. Deescalates situations and problem solves proactively without intervention from leadership.
Responsibility III: Check Out
• Ensures that patients have all information and questions answered about their health and treatments received, to include future appointments
• Ensures encounter forms are completed and tracked accordingly with office schedule
• Obtain any required prior authorizations for patient if being referred for outside services, ie. Radiology, surgery, laboratory, pharmaceuticals
• Completes all documentation for observation, planning and evaluation of care provided to patients
Responsibility IV: Clerical / Administrative
• Process medical records requests
• Open and process any mail and distribute accordingly as well as delivering packages marked “refrigerate” immediately to clinical personnel
• Maintains filing, charting, faxing and all other clerical functions as required
• Answers telephones in a polite manner, makes appointments and takes messages
• Prepares and processes correspondences
• Rolls phones according to schedule
• Assists in the daily reconciliation of the change fund and deposit
Responsibility V: General Practice Duties
• Participates in short range planning, professional development of staff, goal setting, development and completion of action plans. Works with manager and director in development of strategic plans.
• Must have physical exam and annual TB skin testing
• Identifies and orders supplies as needed
• Plays a key role in on-boarding and training of new staff as needed as is willing to cross train to cover additional needs of the practice
• Knowledge of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, PHI, HIPAA as well as other State and Federal regulations pertaining to health insurance statutes
• Ability and flexibility to cover various medical offices when needed
• Performs cash management protocols as assigned
• Adheres to company policy on continuing education programs, i.e. Annual HIPAA training
• Adheres to departmental dress codes as observed by director and wears picture identification badge, 100% of the time.
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| Credentials:
Education:
Other information:
Education: HS diploma or equivalent required; college or advanced education at technical or secretarial school is preferred.
Licensure / Certifications: CPR preferred. CPC or CCS strongly preferred
Experience: At least 3 years previous medical office experience working within a patient registration, reception or billing role.
Demonstrates standards of performance (ownership, teamwork, communication, compassion) that support patient satisfaction and principles of service excellence.
Performs other duties as assigned. |
