Patient Coordinator-Multispecialty-Pelham, NY-Full Time-Day-Offsite

Mount Sinai Health System•Scarsdale, FL

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Offsite Patient Coordinator serves as the initial point of contact for patients, responsible for greeting them and managing their information. Key duties include confirming and updating patient demographics, scheduling appointments, and verifying insurance coverage to ensure it is appropriate for the physician the patient is seeing.

Requirements

High School graduate/GED.
1 year physician practice experience
Must have a minimum of one week training on-site which will be provided by practice.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a medical office setting, utilizing a computer system for physician scheduling.

Responsibilities

Greets patients either in person or via telephone, and update their insurance/demographics in the practice management system.
Assures that physician accepts insurance that patients present with.
If not already done prior to visit, verify insurance prior to patients arrival or at minimum at time of arrival before visit.
Communicate with appropriate staff regarding patients arrival, and ensure that patients medical record is available for physician.
Processes/updates HIPAA-related paperwork and other institutional forms as necessary.
Collects or retrieves referrals or insurance authorizations as required.
Reviews status of waiting room on a routine basis and ensure that patients are kept advised of wait times.
Ensures that patient has paid co-pay or collects co-pay under direction of billing staff, providing patient with receipt following established cash-control processes.
Schedules patient for follow-up appointment as needed.
Provide patient with guidelines for requesting medical records, if necessary.
May perform simple charge entry tasks or enter payments collected from patients and prepare Cashiers deposit.
Answers phones for practice and schedule appointments
Follows all HIPAA and any other governmental or state agency requirements regarding the appropriate handling of PHI documents.
May initiate reminder phones calls for next day appointments.
Performs other related duties