Patient Admin Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

A Brief Overview:
The primary responsibility of the Patient Administrative Specialist is to handle new patient coordination, surgery scheduling, and other front office functions in the outpatient clinical setting. A Patient Administrative Specialist supports any and all administrative tasks related to the daily operations of the clinic.

What you will do:
• Primary Function: Entry, Front Desk, check-in/out.
• Greets and welcomes patients and assists them with initial questions regarding appointments, payments, schedules, etc.
• Answers multi-line phone, screens and routes calls, takes messages for clinic staff and physicians. Assures appropriate verifications and authorizations are complete before patient sees provider.
• Communicate with providers regarding scheduling preferences, and ability to respond to urgent patient needs.
• Provide doctor-patient support using reference documents and tools.
• Carry out various administrative tasks, including maintaining information and paging directory databases, and processing internal forms.
• Utilize all functionality of the telephone system and electronic medical records systems in performing assigned job tasks.
• Meet/Exceed organizational and department service standards.
• Answers non-clinical CRMs, escalating where appropriate.
• Answers non-clinical patient messages, escalating where appropriate.
• Managing and distributing faxes, mail, and filing of clinic-specific documentation.

Education Qualifications:
• High School Diploma/GED.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area.
• Ability to speak and write effectively at a level appropriate for the job.
• Ability to provide customer service, solve problems, and manage multiple priorities.
• Knowledge of Windows-based office software, computers and operating systems.
• Ability to adjust communications to fit the needs and level of understanding of the receiver.
• Ability to exercise calmness in stressful situations.