Associate Specialist, Patient Access

Job Description

Job Description

​ CAREER OPPORTUNITY OFFERING:

• Bonus Incentives

• Paid Certifications

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Comprehensive Benefits

• Career Advancement

• This position pays between $63,100 - $78,875/yr based on experience 

***This position is an on-site role, and candidates must be able to work on-site at the hospital ****

The Patient Access & Pre-Access Manager oversees strategic and operational functions for patient access and pre-access teams, ensuring alignment with revenue cycle goals and regulatory standards. Manages multi-site operations, monitors KPIs, and drives process improvements that enhance efficiency and patient satisfaction. Develops and manages departmental budgets, ensures compliance, and partners with leadership to implement initiatives that optimize front-end workflows. Leads recruitment, onboarding, and professional development for supervisors and staff, provides coaching and performance feedback, and fosters team engagement to build a high-performing culture. Serves as a liaison for internal and external stakeholders, resolves escalated issues, and promotes collaboration to achieve organizational objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manager is responsible for directly managing the operations for the admitting, registration, and financial services departments at the acute care locations. Admitting staff are responsible for assigning accurate MRNs, completing medical necessity / compliance checks, providing proper patient instructions, collecting insurance information, receiving and processing physician orders, and providing excellent customer service. Additionally, managing Financial Service Representatives and ensuring that proper accounting processes are followed, cash drawer is balanced, money is deposited timely and posted accurately to patient accounts, and proper logs are completed and submitted as requested by Financial oversight departments.

• Develops and manages departmental staffing needs. Prepares monthly reports as requested. Establishes departmental goals with the staff to optimize performance and meet organizational while improving operations to increase customer satisfaction and meet financial goals of the organization. Coordinates employee work schedules to provide adequate daily staffing coverage.

• Collects, interprets and communicates performance data using various tools and systems, while also using this data to make decisions on how to achieve performance goals. Works with internal and external customers to make key decisions, impacting either the whole organization or an individual patient. Works closely with ancillary departments to establish and maintain positive relations to ensure revenue cycle goals are achieved.

• Assists in the development of dyad-reporting patient access staff. Provides training, education, goal-setting, and performance interventions as necessary to ensure adequate performance.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Employment Qualifications:

• Certified Revenue Cycle Representative (CRCR) certification

• Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM) certification

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience in Healthcare Management/Administration

Experience we Love:

• Minimum 2 – 3 year’s management experience in healthcare industry

• Patient Access experience with managed care/insurance or call center preferred

• Experience with Microsoft a must

• Ability to balance numerous priorities, therefore requiring great skills in prioritization

• Ability to understand and master numerous computer applications, while also understanding information technology enough to work with the I.T. department to ensure the technological needs of the department are being met.

• Demonstrated advanced usage of AI and the management of teams using AI to lean in to process and technological improvements, to include the exploration, experimentation, and application of AI.