Patient Access Supervisor

Patient Access Supervisor

Job Category: Patient Access

Full-Time

On-site

Columbus, OH 43230, USA

Description

Duties and Responsibilities

Primary Job Functions:

• Supervise assigned medical scheduler staff.
• Create work schedules, workflows, and track attendance for efficiency in operations, approve time off requests for assigned employees.
• Works with Department Manager regarding staffing, training, and discipline for assigned department direct reports.
• Conduct regularly scheduled staff meetings.
• Administer 90 day and annual evaluations for department direct reports.
• Acts as a liaison and resource to all operators and schedulers as well as all areas of the scheduling department as necessary.
• Participates and coordinates new scheduling department employee orientations for phone staff
• Provides daily direction and communication to scheduling department employees to ensure patient calls are answered in a timely, efficient and knowledgeable manner. Including but not limited to adjusting queue assignments to accommodate call volume.
• Provides coaching, counseling, and call resolution.
• Assists with development of reward/ recognition programs to help motivate and maintain a positive working relationship within the scheduling department.
• Provides statistical and performance feedback and coaching on a regular basis for each scheduling department employee.
• Provides feedback to the Administrative Support Manager relating to performance management of scheduling department employees (i.e., attendance issues, quality issues and or productivity issues)
• Assists with creating and monitoring training plans for employees within the scheduling department. Creates action plans designed to improve the quality of calls.
• Ensures scheduling department employees have appropriate training and other resources to perform their jobs.
• Track and report on training outcomes
• Creates weekly schedule for operators and schedulers
• Field and log call offs and tardies

Depending on the needs of the business, this position will, at times, work the duties of a scheduler:

• Answer/screen/triage incoming phone calls in a timely and courteous manner. Will resolve callers' inquiries.
• Schedule appointments and cancellations by phone or faxed referral
• Understands scheduling protocols: hospital, office, ambulatory center, doctors/other providers at each location
• Understands all appointment and procedure types and the preps associated with each type
• Understands insurance protocols for scheduling and pre-certification
• Daily reviews and has working knowledge of physician and office schedules
• Schedule and process incoming referrals, contacting patient directly & communicating appointment information to referring physician offices.
• Obtain patient insurance information and enter into computer
• Call in prescriptions for designated preps to pharmacies as necessary
• Practice appropriate charting methods, including taking appropriate messages
• Mail patient and procedure information packets.
• Utilizes computer programs daily (eCW, AlertMD, g-Gastro and Dial Pad )
• Trouble shoot and assist with technical issues

Secondary Job Functions:

• Assists co-workers with additional work outside of scheduler duties
• Maintain confidentiality of patient's personal and financial information by utilizing HIPAA guidelines and regulations.
• Attend all office meetings or in-service as required.
• Any other tasks as requested by the physician, practice manager, human resource manager, and/or the manager

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Ability to communicate with diversified levels of patients, staff members as well as external providers and/or agencies.
• Ability to organize work material to ensure accuracy of job performance
• Knowledge of modern office procedures and methods including telephone communications, office systems, and record keeping
• Knowledge of modern business communication, including style and format of letters, memoranda, minutes, and reports
• Skills to use a personal computer and various software packages, including internet.
• Skills to handle a multi-line phone system.
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently, and proceed with objectives with little supervision
• Ability to handle and resolve problems
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding health and financial information.
• Neat appearance, professional demeanor and pleasant phone voice.
• Fluent in English.

Credentials and Experience

• Must have high school diploma or equivalent
• Prefer at least 2 years' experience working in a medical environment.

Special Requirements

• Willingness to learn new tasks, be cross trained within the office, and be flexible with work load to help office flow, assisting co-workers as needed.
• Flexibility in working hours with willingness to work occasional overtime.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to sit (frequent), stand (frequent) walk (frequent), stoop (frequent), bend over (frequent) and type on keyboard (frequent).
• Ability to communicate in person (occasional) and by phone (frequent).

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