Patient Access Manager

Patient Access Manager

The Patient Access Manager is responsible for leading all daily patient access operations, site-specific oversight of medical records management activities and day-to-day oversight of the dietary function in close collaboration with the registered dietician.

Essential Job Functions

• Maintain compliance with EMTALA, DNV, HIPAA and all other hospital and government regulations applicable to admissions operations
• Effectively manage and direct all areas of registration to ensure quality, productivity, and excellent customer service
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of daily registrations
• Compile, analyze, and report data for Patient Access quality measures
• Ensure collection of payments and cash drawer reconciliation
• Prepare and make weekly deposits
• Prepare work schedules and payroll to accommodate budget and allotted FTEs
• Effectively communicate and maintain working relationship with the registered dietician
• Oversee day-to-day operations of patient nutrition services in close collaboration with the registered dietician
• Ensure QA of site-specific medical records and share lessons learned with patient access team members and medical records director/consultant as needed
• Interview, hire, train, evaluate, and counsel patient access team members
• Provide continuous training for and communicate changes to existing employees
• Ensure all personnel policies are followed
• Work closely and professionally with regional and corporate partners on special projects
• Provide focused education and training for patient access team members around point of service collections

Other Job Functions

• Perform patient registration functions when needed to ensure wait times are kept to a minimum and to ensure patient access skills remain sharp
• Distribute mail appropriately
• Order office supplies as needed
• Maintain a clean working environment for the facility; this includes the front desk, restroom, waiting room, break area and patient rooms when assistance is needed by medical staff
• Notify appropriate contact of any malfunctioning equipment or maintenance needs
• Perform month-end procedures including but not limited to: shredding charts, boxing up charts and emptying binders for next month
• Attend staff meetings or other company sponsored or mandated meetings as required
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a High School Diploma or GED
• A four-year degree in business or healthcare highly preferred
• A minimum of five years patient registration and insurance verification experience in a health care setting is required
• In addition a minimum of two years supervisory experience in health care setting is also required. However, demonstrated indirect leadership experience may be considered in lieu of this requirement provided it is a direct fit to the role, ie, lead role, project management or other leadership experiences
• Emergency Department registration experience, strongly preferred
• Knowledge of various types of insurance plans (PPO, POS, HMO, Medicare, and Medicaid.) and payors, required
• Basic understanding of medical terminology
• Knowledge or previous experience using EMR, required
• Excellent customer service
• Working knowledge with MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), required
• Position requires fluency in English; written and oral communication