Lead Receptionist

Lead Receptionist

The Lead Receptionist is responsible for the front desk operations of a healthcare facility. This role involves greeting patients, scheduling appointments, handling inquiries, and maintaining patient records. The Lead Receptionist ensures a smooth and welcoming experience for patients and supports the medical team with various administrative tasks. This position assumes ownership and leads advanced and highly specialized administrative, operational, and customer support duties that require independent initiative and judgment. You will report to the Center Administrator.

The Lead Receptionist welcomes patients, offering administrative support, and assuming team lead responsibilities within a physician practice or center. This may include the following responsibilities:

• Greet Patients: Welcome patients and visitors, both in person and over the phone.
• Schedule Appointments: Manage appointment calendars, schedule patient visits, and coordinate with medical staff to optimize schedules.
• Patient Records: Maintain patient records, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality. Work in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
• Billing and Payments: Ensure patient accounts are updated correctly. May include collecting copay at time of visit.
• Inquiries and Communication: Answer incoming calls, respond to patient inquiries, and provide general information.
• Office Management: Ensure the reception area is tidy, sanitized, and well-stocked with necessary materials.
• Administrative Support: Assist with several administrative tasks. This may involve monitoring performance metrics, conducting team huddles, and taking on center administration responsibilities in the absence of the Center Administrator.
• Team Lead: Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the receptionist team, offering training and guidance. This role may also involve traveling to support multiple centers.
• Problem Resolution: Address and resolve any issues, escalations, or complaints from patients or staff.

Decisions are regarding the daily priorities for an administrative work group and external vendors. These decisions include coordinating work activities and monitoring progress towards schedules/goals. Additionally, the role often oversees work of others and is the primary administrative owner of a main process or program. Work within broad guidelines with little oversight.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 1 year of medical reception experience
• Experience in leading a team/department
• Experience with value-based care models
• Familiarity with medical terminology
• Proficient with EMR systems
• Strong passion for enhancing patient care and experience
• Excellent customer service and phone skills
• Collaborative team player with a positive attitude
• Able to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Detail-oriented and highly organized
• Skilled in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Work Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 to 5:00

Location: Onsite at Jacksonville, FL/Conviva University

Additional Information:

This role is considered patient-facing and is part of the company's Tuberculosis (TB) screening program. If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Pay Range: $39,000 - $49,400 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits:

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Conviva Senior Primary Care: Conviva Senior Primary Care provides proactive, preventive care to seniors, including wellness visits, physical exams, chronic condition management, screenings, minor injury treatment and more. As part of Humana's Primary Care Organization, which includes CenterWell Senior Primary Care, Conviva's innovative, value-based approach means each patient gets the best care, when needed most, and for the lowest cost. We go beyond physical health – addressing the social, emotional, behavioral and financial needs that can impact our patients' well-being.

About CenterWell, a Humana company: CenterWell is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated and differentiated experiences that put our patients at the center of everything we do. The result is high-quality healthcare that is accessible, comprehensive and, most of all, personalized. As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, a leading provider of home healthcare and a leading integrated home delivery, specialty, hospice and retail pharmacy, CenterWell is focused on whole health and addressing the physical, emotional and social wellness of our patients. CenterWell is part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Learn more about what we offer at CenterWell.com.

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