Medical Receptionist - Internal Medicine

HealthPartners • Saint Louis, MN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a Medical Receptionist to join our Primary Care Frontline team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day. Position Summary: Call Center: If an employee’s main tasks are dedicated to incoming calls in a Call Center environment; the primary purpose of this position is to handle incoming calls while maintaining a minimum of 93% availability of staffed sign rapidly and accurately on time during scheduled hours. Employees will meet the department specific agent expectations regarding measurement and follow the defined guidelines and processes of the department. Front Desk: The primary responsibilities for employees providing support within a department are to greet patients, collect co-pays, schedule follow-up appointments and referrals and support departmental clerical duties. Both areas will provide support to the department/site ensuring quality service through timely and courteous assistance and provide service support to patients who request our care. Department Overview: We are a group of healthcare workers who are passionate about helping patients and their families with improving their health. With a team of 18 clinicians, we see approximately 150 adult patients (ages 18+) a day. Our clinicians consider our front desk team members as colleagues and really partner with staff to take great care of our patients. Collaborating with all members of the team is how we have continued to have excellent patient experience results and maintain high quality patient measures. We campus includes free parking in a parking lot or ramp. Wolfe Park is in walking distance to enjoy a walk and break. We are located next to many stores and places to enjoy lunch including Target, Byerly’s, Fresh Thyme, McDonald’s, Subway, Chipotle, and Bogarts Donuts. Our team is friendly, engaged, and we love to have fun! Our primary care department provides a wide range of services from yearly physicals, Medicare wellness visits, pre-ops, general office visit, video, and phone visit, in clinic procedures, nurse visits and vaccine clinics. Clinic hours and Work Schedule: Our clinic is open to serve patients 7am - 6pm M-Th and 7am - 5pm on Fridays, and the third Saturday of the month from 8am - 12pm. M-F 8:00a-4:30p, occasional Saturdays 8a-12p.

Requirements

• 6 months related experience
• Accurate computer/keyboarding skills required.
• Demonstrates knowledge of age-related growth and development principles necessary to provide appropriate service and assure safety of patients.
• Must be proficient in the operation of the following types of equipment: telephone and headsets, PC, printer, photo copier and fax machine.

Nice To Haves

• Strong verbal and written communication
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Human relations sensitivity and customer service skills
• Listening and telephone etiquette skills
• Medical terminology knowledge desirable
• Comfort in asking patients for copays and race collection.
• Ability to promote and maintain good patient relations and patient confidentiality.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and structured environment.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.

Responsibilities

• handle incoming calls while maintaining a minimum of 93% availability of staffed sign rapidly and accurately on time during scheduled hours
• meet the department specific agent expectations regarding measurement and follow the defined guidelines and processes of the department
• greet patients
• collect co-pays
• schedule follow-up appointments and referrals
• support departmental clerical duties
• provide support to the department/site ensuring quality service through timely and courteous assistance
• provide service support to patients who request our care

Benefits

• Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, onsite clinic and much more!

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees