Patient Services Specialist 3 UW Medical Center Montlake Oto Head and Neck Surgery Clinic

University of Washington Medical Center•Seattle, WA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

UW Medical Center-UW Medical Center Montlake Oto Head and Neck Surgery Clinic has an outstanding opportunity for a Patient Services Specialist (job profile: Patient Services Specialist 3). This role is conveniently located near public transportation and offers the chance to make a difference for patients and employees, with opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

High school graduation or equivalent
Two years Patient Services Specialist 2 experience OR An equivalent combination of education/experience

Responsibilities

Schedule patients focusing on patient safety and reducing the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
Maintain clean, organized, professional work area, and performs other related duties as assigned.
Assist in orientating and training new patient services specialist staff.
Schedule new, return, and procedure appointments and coordinate and schedule ancillary appointments.
Create Epic orders and referrals for scheduling radiology exams to include exam specific CPT and ICD-10 codes, complete patient registration needs by creating and updating demographics, guarantor accounts, and insurance payors.
Participate in process improvement projects such as facilitating workgroup efforts to identify and increase daily throughput of Epic work queue orders.
Work towards departmental and team goals by analyzing Epic work queue orders and assist in workflow efficiency enhancements.
Participate in use case improvement for the processing of external provider orders through the Fax document management application to be scheduled in Epic.
Skilled in identifying and driving solutions for the anesthesia and sedation nurse triage coordination.
Act as a subject matter expert for their scheduling modality, think critically, and troubleshoot Epic errors for the team.
Function proficiently within their team to assist with the training of new staff and act as a go to team resource.
Support their team Lead in day-to-day operational goals.
Assist in monitoring Epic schedule templates to ensure the group is performing proper resource level loading.
Audit online ticket scheduling appointments for accuracy of order placement, referral completion, and resource selection.
Analyze the No Show, Cancellation, Wait list follow up reports data, and the Online Scheduling reports to perform patient follow up and reduce revenue loss.
Develop and maintain good working relationships within the department, with other departments and all medical staff.
Other duties assigned.