Hopsital Admitting Specialist

Hospital Admitting Specialist

Location:

Altru Hospital, Devils Lake, ND 58301

Pay Range: $16.26 - $24.38

The Hospital Admitting Specialist accurately schedules patient appointments and procedures, updates demographic and insurance information, completes pre‑registration during scheduling of discharge appointments, accurately registers patients for their admission, collects insurance co‑pay and procedural pre‑pays, and completes insurance verification. The position promotes good public relations, remains customer focused, and ensures patients and families’ needs are met while following HIPAA, payer, and other regulations and documenting all pertinent information as required.

• Ensures strict confidentiality when handling patient charts, records, and scheduling information.
• Accurately registers patients into the EPIC system by collecting and recording demographic, insurance, financial, and clinical data.
• Collects necessary patient account documents and self‑pay balances, pre‑payment amounts, and co‑pays per guidelines.
• Works at the Hospital Admitting registration desk, ER admitting desk, and Urgent check‑in desk and completes in‑room registration and scheduling.
• Visits patient rooms to confirm all necessary registration documents have been signed.
• Creates accounts for new patients and updates existing accounts to ensure accurate services and account processing.
• Interprets physician orders and referrals to determine service needs and schedules patient visits while coordinating appointments with other departments to meet the needs of patient and provider.
• Calculates patients’ co‑pays, deductibles, and co‑insurance and attempts to collect amounts from patients.
• Utilizes appropriate strategies to activate and/or verify insurance coverage of patients and obtain benefit information such as co‑payment and co‑insurance amounts.
• Maintains knowledge of and complies with third‑party payers’ requirements for verifying insurance information, obtaining authorizations/pre‑certifications, and completing other activities to ensure services are billed and reimbursed appropriately.
• Reviews Medicare accounts for completed MSPQ.
• Completes bed placement for patients admitted into the hospital.
• Modifies work schedule to meet department goals/deadlines and the needs of the department and patients.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed to meet the needs of the department/organization.

Required:

A minimum of 1 year related experience.

Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking English.

• Sit:
  Frequently (34‑66%)
• Stand:
  Occasionally (5‑33%)
• Walk:
  Occasionally (5‑33%)
• Stoop/Bend:
  Occasionally (5‑33%)
• Reach:
  Frequently (34‑66%)
• Handle/Finger/Feel:
  Continuously (67‑100%)
• See:
  Continuously (67‑100%)
• Hear:
  Continuously (67‑100%)

• Lift — Floor to Waist Level: Sedentary (