Supervisor Patient Services - Behavioral Health

Department: 36600 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center - Administration: Behavioral Health

Status:

Benefits Eligible:

Hou rs Per Week:

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Hours are Primarily Monday-Friday from 9:30am-6p. Schedule adjustments could be necessary to support clinic and team need. Flexibility for scheduling is required. This position requires 100% onsite presence at 913 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago, IL.

Pay Range:

• Supervises the day-to-day activities of clerical, administrative, and patient service functions to ensure a high level of productivity. Provides for ample staffing and coverage within areas of responsibility. Monitors staff interactions and documentation for quality assurance.
• Ensures accurate compilation of provider schedules, scheduling and visit closure processes and service to referrals to meet both provider and patient expectations.
• Ensures accuracy of patient registration information, including patient demographics, insurance information and validation, referral data, and other information needed for patient registration. Ensures caregiver skill in patient payment collection, accuracy of cash handling processes and standards, and answering patient payment questions and issues.
• Supports the planning, organizing, development and implementation of system changes and process improvements and effectively manages changes. Monitors quality and patient satisfaction data and ensures caregivers meet all department metrics to ensure service standards are met.
• Serves as a resource for staff in resolving complex patient questions, concerns and issues. Works closely with leadership, contact center, and staff to resolve complex questions and concerns, ensuring patient issues are addressed with appropriate service recovery applied.
• Ensures caregiver competency and accuracy in direct patient contact for visit closure, post visit follow through, or other visit needs, and ensures clinical information is addressed by appropriate clinical staff.
• In collaboration with leader, develops, updates and implements policies and procedures to ensure safe and efficient flow of operations. Provides input into the operating, personnel and capital budget processes for areas of responsibility and is accountable for operating within that budget.
• Collaborates with clinical leadership and other site management to provide pertinent information for the purpose of patient registration, scheduling, insurance verification, insurance billing and day-to-day problem solving.
• Resolves patient and internal/external customer complaints and issues and collaborates with other departments, quality and leadership when necessary.
• Works collaboratively with staff, providers, leads and other supervisory personnel. Represents the department at intradepartmental meetings and functions.
• Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which includes coaching on performance, completes performance reviews and overall staff morale. Recommends hiring, compensation changes, promotions, corrective action decisions, and terminations.
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.

• None Required.

• High School Graduate.

• Typically requires 3 years of experience in providing customer service for a large or multi-site physician practice that includes experiences in automated patient registration, physician referral processes and third party insurance guidelines.

• Demonstrated leadership skills such as delegation, team building, managing multiple priorities, problem solving, and decision making.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), customer service and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate with a variety of patients, staff, leadership, and physicians.
• Excellent organization, customer service, and human relations skills.
• Intermediate computer skills including experience in using personal computers; including Microsoft Office or similar applications, and electronic mail.

• Generally exposed to a normal office environment.
• Position requires travel; may be exposed to road and weather hazards.
• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job

• Incentive pay for select positions

• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs

• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses

• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave

• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.