Counselor (Weekends)

Hours per Week: 11:30am-8:00pm (every third weekend and a holiday rotation required).

Located in the heart of Anderson, South Carolina , AnMed is a dynamic, not-for-profit health system dedicated to delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and integrity. To provide exceptional and compassionate care to all we serve.

Register/admit patients in the hospital system. Obtain signatures for required documents and scan into electronic record. Verify insurance benefits for admissions and initiate authorization/precertification as required for both admissions and OP registrations. Identify any co-pays or deductibles and initiate up-front collections process. Register/admit patient by obtaining accurate demographic and insurance information.

Have appropriate forms signed and scan into electronic medical record (HPF/HBF).

Place ID band on all patients after confirming hospital identifiers: patient name and date of birth.

Direct patient to appropriate department/nursing unit or arrange transport as required.

Medicare CWF, Medicaid web sites, Recondo, private payer web sites and/or VRU, etc.

Initiate up -front cash collections for both Inpatient and Outpatient accounts.

Assist self-paying patients by identifying programs they may qualify for including Medical Assistance, Medicare disability, Crime Victims, etc.

Refer to hospital financial counselors as needed.

Initiate precertification for admissions by entering information into the Insurance carrier web site or notifying them via telephone.

For outpatients, verify precertification has been completed by checking AS400 or Tempus.

Contact UM precept nurse or insurance company directly when needed.

High school diploma or GED.

Basic general office skills.

Medical terminology and prior insurance experience.

Medical Insurance & Wellness Offerings.

Free Financial Counseling.

Founded in 1908, AnMed is an independent, not-for-profit health system serving Upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia. It is licensed for 648 beds and anchored by AnMed Medical Center, a 495-bed acute-care hospital that’s earned the prestigious Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2012. Also included are a heart and vascular center, a comprehensive cancer center, a maternity center, a behavioral health hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, and AnMed Integrated Therapy and AnMed Urgent Care locations. The AnMed Piedmont campus and its freestanding emergency department opened in 2025, and a new campus serving Clemson and Central is under construction and scheduled to open in 2027. Nearly 60 physician practices are also among service sites spread throughout the region. The system has 742 physicians on medical staff and more than 4,000 employees. Guided by core values of compassion, innovation, integrity, accountability and collaboration, AnMed was named one of the nation’s “Great Community Hospitals” by Becker’s Hospital Review. It’s also been named among the nation’s 165 top places to work in health care. It is one of three systems in the nation to earn the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award from the American Hospital Association.