Patient Access Representative

The University of Kansas Health System • Louisburg, MN

90d • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for completion of front office tasks ensuring smooth and efficient patient flow and quality customer service. Tasks include greeting patients, verifying and updating patient information, scheduling and cancelling patient appointments, completing appointment reminder calls, answering phone, routing phone calls, collecting account copays and outstanding account balances, balancing of collected payments, reconciliation of appointments, and filing/scanning/copying documents and/or forms.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Previous Related Experience

Nice To Haves

• Previous Healthcare Experience

Responsibilities

• Greets customers in prompt, courteous, and helpful manner.
• Verifies patient information and assures that patient completes and signs appropriate paperwork.
• Obtains copies of insurance cards, driver license and enters/updates patient demographic and insurance information in computer system both accurately and in timely manner.
• Compiles and maintains all forms and/or documents in the patient's medical record.
• Maintains appointment scheduling system to include scheduling, coordinating, and adjusting patient appointments appropriate to patient's request, provider schedule, and computerized system capability.
• Consistently follows "No-Show" procedure.
• Completes appointment reminder calls.
• Answers telephone promptly, screens calls, takes complete message including all necessary triage information or route/transfers call to appropriate staff member.
• Efficiently distributes information to nursing and medical support staff, accurately, and in a courteous and timely manner.
• Consistently collects patient co-pay and outstanding account balances.
• Prepares office batches and balances patient payments received at the completion of each workday.
• Serves as liaison between patient and medical support staff.
• Communicates with insurance company for necessary information regarding referral information and/or assists patient with scheduling specialist appointment and/or testing.
• Checks out patients providing visit specific information and schedules future appointments.
• Maintains clean, orderly front desk and waiting area.
• PARs with PAR/Clinical access to the electronic medical record will timely and accurately enter patient clinical information in the EMR as related to assigned tasks associated with PAR/Clinical access.
• Participates fully as a member of the Patient Centered Medical Home Team.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities.
• Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit.
• Other duties may be assigned as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED