Patient Services Coordinator

Fairview Health Services • Burnsville, MN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a patient services coordinator (PSC) to join our outpatient cardiac rehab clinic at M Health Fairview Clinic in Burnsville.
The PSC performs a number of duties throughout the day, including answering phones, scheduling and rescheduling patients and clerical work. The PSC working in patient care settings is also responsible for greeting and checking in patients/visitors, providing and making sure patients fill out necessary forms as well as maintain a clean, welcoming environment. The PSC must have knowledge of computers, database/word processing software and standard office procedures and equipment. A candidate for this position must also possess excellent customer service and communications skills.
FTE: 0.7, authorized for 56 hours per pay period.
Schedule: Every other Monday: 7:45am – 4:15pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays: 8:30am – 5:00pm, Fridays: 6:45am – 3:15pm.
Fairview Rehabilitation offers a range of services that serve patients across 10 acute-care hospitals, 3 post-acute settings and 70 outpatient adult and pediatric therapy clinics. Consisting of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy as well as Audiology and Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehab, our therapists collaborate with colleagues in all medical settings and offer dozens of specialty programs.
As an academic health system with residency and fellowship programs and a rehab-focused clinical quality team, we have a collaborative culture that is centered on learning with an emphasis on evidence based, patient-centered care. Rehab’s continuing education program offers 40+ continuing education courses per year at no cost to employees and further supports numerous external CE courses each year. As an industry leader in rehabilitative care with nationally recognized programs, our therapists play a meaningful role in helping patients reach their goals and live more fulfilling lives.

Requirements

• Knowledge of computers, database/word processing software and standard office procedures and equipment.
• Excellent customer service and communications skills.

Nice To Haves

• Vocational/Technical training
• A.A./A.S.
• 1 year experience as a scheduler/administrative assistant in a healthcare setting

Responsibilities

• Completes scheduling functions
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills
• Produces efficient and accurate schedules and associated reports
• Records and updates schedule changes accurately, communicating changes to all involved staff
• Seeks out solution to time conflicts directly through parties involved and other available resources.
• Scans pertinent documents into the patient record
• Informs patients if there is an unexpected change in their scheduled appointment, including offering other options, rescheduling or cancelling
• Completes clerical and reception duties
• Answers, screens, and responds to telephones calls
• Reviews and routes scans, faxes, inter-departmental or postal service mail
• Takes and leaves concise messages for patients and responds as requested
• Makes new patient packets
• Pulling and tallying data
• Word processing
• Report development
• Develops and implements office/department procedures to maintain systems and records
• Orders supplies and monitors par levels for the department
• Locates and orders repairs and service requests
• Maintains databases, files and records on a regular basis according to established procedure
• Completes the Medicare and Medical Assistance certification, as applicable
• Checking in patients
• Facilitates all necessary paperwork
• Obtains all necessary patient consent and delivers privacy and bill of rights information
• Gathers patient demographic
• Obtains necessary signatures
• Ensuring waiting room and front desk appearance is professional and clean

Benefits

• Fairview offers a generous benefit package including but not limited to medical, dental, vision plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement, early access to earned wages, and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees