Patient Access Representative

It's more than a career, it's a calling.
MO-SSM Health Des Peres Medical Pavilion

Worker Type:
Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters-every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

The position serves as a vital connection between patients, participants, and healthcare teams, ensuring a seamless scheduling experience for prescribed procedures. Skillfully gathers and verifies demographic, insurance, and clinical information, helping to create an efficient, accurate, and patient-centered care journey from the very first interaction.

Department: Centralized Contact Center

Schedule: Full Time, working Monday - Friday from 7: 00 AM - 5:30 PM.

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Job Summary:
Responsible for communicating with patients, participants and staff to accurately schedule patients for prescribed procedures and gather the necessary demographic, insurance and clinical information for the procedure.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gathers information from patient and enters into appropriate database. Seeks appropriate resources to resolve issues about the type, date or location of prescribed procedures.
• Schedules patient procedures in a manner that most efficiently utilizes the patient's time and clinical resources. Coordinates and communicates schedules.
• Assists with coordination of activities related to insurance pre-certification/authorization.
• Provides counseling to patient, participant or their representative regarding pre-service requirements and instructions.
• Performs clerical and reception duties associated with patient registration.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department:
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Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

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