Patient Service Specialist

SunState Medical Specialists • Miami, FL

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About The Position

SunState Medical Specialists (SMS) is proud to be a part of OneOncology in delivering exceptional, community-based specialty care across Florida. With a team of 105 physicians spanning urology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, breast surgery, general surgery, and head and neck surgery, SMS is committed to providing high-quality, accessible care. Our practice continues to expand services by offering advanced radiation therapies, in-house pharmacy and laboratory capabilities, care management, theranostics, cutting-edge diagnostic imaging, and clinical research. We are dedicated to recruiting top-tier physicians to help increase access to affordable, high-quality care throughout the state.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability in an administrative role within a busy, customer focused environment, medical preferred.
• Handle and resolve urgent matters and time critical medical appointments
• Strong organization and communication skills, with the ability to liaise with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven experience to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.
• Knowledge of patient billing systems and related funding mechanisms.
• Ability to use clinical administration systems, as well as Microsoft Office software
• Collaborative approach in working with the wider administration team and other internal customers, in line with the organization values.
• Flexible approach to work

Nice To Haves

• Travel as required to other centers

Responsibilities

• Ensure a high level of patient service is provided including anticipating needs, maintaining patient service expectations, and reacting to feedback.
• Maintain a professional service which meets patient needs.
• Customer Service Monitoring and reacting to patient feedback
• Monitoring the flow of patients and directing as appropriate
• Answering and attending to all telephone calls in a timely manner
• Responding to queries in accordance with the privacy policy
• Having a breadth of service knowledge to respond to patient queries
• Providing support to Physicians and other internal customers, as required
• Assist with patient questions regarding billing and insurance payments
• Maintenance and improvement of the patients’ waiting room
• Maintaining the look and feel of both patient and employee-facing spaces, restocking supplies, and organization
• Dealing with people traffic, by directing vendors and visitors as they come and ensuring compliance to sign in protocols
• Maintaining the Integrity of Patient Records
• Scheduling Physician appointments with regard to availability & appropriate timeframes
• Undertaking all actions to support a Physicians clinic visit, including ensuring the completeness of patient records prior to and subsequent to the visit
• Admitting and discharging patients, prior to and following, consultation, evaluation and follow-up appointments
• Registering new patients in a timely manner and ensuring the accuracy of personal and billing details
• Ensuring all documentation and correspondence required for the consultations appointment is registered
• Creating referring doctor records as required
• Following up on referrals
• Document management
• Work co-operatively within a multidisciplinary team and assist other team members to achieve team objectives and work outcomes.
• Adhere to the policies and procedures as documented in the work instruction manual and as directed
• Contribute to team development through contributing in team huddles, participating in team problem solving, supporting Center Leads and Physicians with ad hoc tasks, etc.
• General administrative and patient support duties, e.g. document management, report generation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED