Patient Service Representative - Digestive Diseases, Torrance

Administrative Assistant

Work Location: Torrance, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote Fully On-Site Work Schedule Monday- Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration indefinite Job # 32814

In this position, you will provide direct support to the physicians and patients for assigned physicians. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

acting as a liaison for the patients and physicians in the practice assisting patients in accessing service within the health system facilitating communication with referring physicians referring patients to appropriate resources providing follow-up through telephone and EPIC/Care Connect processing authorizations for multi-specialty and scheduling internal and external GI procedures

Salary Range: $29.42-$42.14/hourly

Required:

• Skill in setting priorities which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities
• Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with Faculty, Staff, Administration and patients from various social, cultural and economic backgrounds
• Ability to creatively integrate competing demands into a productive working environment
• Skill in verbal communications to clearly convey complex problems in both formal and informal situations
• Ability to interact diplomatically and sympathetically with a patient population in varying degrees of health

Preferred:

• Knowledge of specific specialty practice and workflows
• Working knowledge of patient related policies and procedures as well as a thorough understanding of the University system and its services and programs
• Knowledge of hospital computer system, and personal computer systems and the various software products to perform administrative work.
• Familiarity and knowledge of authorization process & managed care programs