Patient Service Rep

Position Summary: Responsible for greeting and assisting patients, patient check-in, and patient check-out, scheduling of appointments, confirming next day appointments, verifying patient's insurance, collecting patient copayments, securing pre-authorizations, entering patient charges in the practice's Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management System (EMR). Monitors administrative and clinical inboxes in EMR and carries out requests for medication refills, appointments, testing follow-up, referrals to other physicians. Provides follow-up to unresolved patient questions and for ensuring continuity of care. Reliable transportation required.

Experience

Required : Minimum one year front desk experience in a physician practice or outpatient ambulatory care setting. Computer and EMR (Athena a plus) experience required. Knowledge of medical insurance, medical terminology, and medical office services and routines.

Preferred : Cardiovascular practice experience. Two to four years' experience in a customer service oriented environment a plus.

Education

Required: HS Diploma, or equivalent

Preferred: Associates degree preferred. Experience may be substituted in place of degree.

License and Credentials

Required:

Preferred: Certified Medical Assistant a plus

Skills

Required: Communicates effectively with customers (physicians, patients, co-workers, insurance representatives). Knowledgeable working with EMR systems (Athena preferred). Maintaining appropriate practice patient activity records, and ability to produce reports as requested

Preferred: Bi-lingual Spanish/English a plus

Hours: full-time 80 hours per pay period


The minimum starting rate for this position is $18.20

When determining a team members base rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., years of recent relevant experience, education, credentials, and internal equity).

At Deborah, healthcare is still about caring...for patients and team members. That is why we offer an outstanding benefits package, which includes healthcare coverage for team members in regularly budgeted positions of at least 30 hours per week. The benefits package also includes generous paid time-off, 401K matching contribution, tuition assistance, short and long term disability benefits, life insurance, meal discount, dependent care subsidy, adoption assistance and free parking.

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