Registration Specialist PRN - Bedford

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Shelbyville, TN

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Registration Specialist PRN in Bedford, Tennessee. VUMC is a leading institution in Nashville, Tennessee, dedicated to advancing health and wellness through patient care, education, and research. This role is crucial for admitting patients in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring all necessary documentation, signatures, insurance verification, and authorization are obtained. The position also involves requesting deductibles or co-pays, correctly applying wristbands, providing advance directives, and addressing patient questions and concerns.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year of experience

Nice To Haves

Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Responsibilities

Admit all patients in a timely and accurate manner.
Ensure all current information has been documented, signatures received, insurance has been verified, authorizations received, and the deductibles or co-pays have been requested in a compliant manner.
Ensure the wrist bands are put on the proper patients, advance directives given to each patient and patients receive the answer to any questions or concerns they may have.
Assist with in-patient patient admissions, as needed.