Patient Registration Technician Job Clovis area,New Mexico USA,Healthcare

POSITION SUMMARY

Perform accurate front desk workflows in a health care setting, including patient registration, verification of insurance coverage, scheduling, phone triage,cash handling and check-in/check-out, while maintaining a high level of professional customer service. Responsible for the registration of newpatients, collecting and entering patient demographics, and updating and collecting required patient forms. Maintain privacy and confidentiality of information as required by HIPAA. Ensure that all policies and procedures are observed.

Perform administrative duties including scheduling appointments, maintaining electronic medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Greet patients, staff, and visitors in a positive, helpful, and professionalmanner.

Interviewpatients to obtain accurate demographic and insurance information to determine eligibility and specific form of payment for services required. Ensure completion and obtainsignatures on all patient documentation, intake, release and consent forms.

Assess patient eligibility for government programs (Medicaid, Medicare,Veteran’s Administration, and Health Insurance Marketplace), refereligible patients to insurance specialists/patient benefit coordinators.

Collectco-payments, billing payments, generate receipts, audit and balancefinancial transactions to ensure accurate daily deposits in compliance with billing policies for safe and secure cash collections.

Recordpatient demographic and insurance information, research missing information and obtain signatures and release forms.

Maintain confidentiality of patient and center legal and financial files.

Ensureall required registration fields and forms are filled in completely and documents are prepared and ready to be scanned into the patient’srecord.

Generate and distribute patient forms for well-child visits, physical exams, etc.

Keeppatients informed of their account information, changes and updates.

Conduct insurance verification & follow-up in atimely manner.

Requestmedical records for follow-up appointments scheduled; process incomingand outgoing medical records requests in a timely manner. Document andlog flow of medical records.

Perform administrative duties; answer telephones; respond to inquiries fromstaff and the general public regarding medical appointments, documents,and search for and provide information and copies of official documents.

Schedulepatient appointments. Generate and document appointment reminder callsto confirm patient will show to improve no show rates.

Maintain various logs and reports of daily activities including patient counts inorder to prepare monthly data and operating activity.

Assistin new hire training and of identification of on-going training needs.

Participate in patient satisfaction and quality improvement initiatives; route patient concerns, complaints and feedback to supervisor/manager.

Conduct inventory and order medical,lab, office supplies or equipment.

Participate in the development of,accreditation, quality and other programs identified to improve patient care.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Six (6) months of patient registration, customer service or related experience.

High School Diploma or GED.

KNOWLEDGE,

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

To perform thisjob successfully, an individual must be able to perform each responsibilitysatisfactorily. These requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive,of the knowledge, skill, and ability required for this position.

Knowledge of administrative and recordkeeping principles and practices and medical terminology.

Knowledge of principles and practices of medical records laws, codes and regulations.

Knowledge of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM).

Correctbusiness English, including spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Techniquesfor dealing with a variety of individuals from various socioeconomic,ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in person and over the telephone.

Principles of customer service and support work.

Reading and explaining rules, policies and procedures.

Sortingmaterials in alphabetical, numerical or chronological order withouterrors.

Compilingand summarizing information and preparing periodic or special reports.

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