Patient Services Representative

5 days ago


WinstonSalem, United States Atrium Health Full time
Job Description

JOB SUMMARY:

The Patient Services Representative I puts their heart into their work every day. Our representatives lead with empathy and are passionate about showing compassion, ensuring quality work, and providing patients with a stress-free experience while they are registered for healthcare services. Whether it's making patients more comfortable while they wait, checking in on them with updates or going the extra mile to help someone navigate the hospital/clinic, our colleagues know that registering a patient is not a task-oriented career, it's a people-oriented one

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or GED required. Patient access (scheduling, registration and financial clearance), insurance verification, billing or certified medical assistant experience preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
  1. Delights patients with an engaging and personable experience in all encounters.
  2. By providing a superior patient experience, receives high satisfaction survey scores from patients, at or above goal.
  3. Develops and maintains a solid understanding of the revenue cycle and how patient registration affects the billing process.
  4. Takes advantage of all training provided and ensures expertise in hospital/clinic systems including CarePricer, HIPAA confidentiality, healthcare insurance payer portals and protocols, insurance verification and data entry protocols, which hospital/clinic documents are required for medical and financial compliance, navigating the hospital/clinic and understanding and applying age specific competencies, among others.
  5. Completes the registration process while meeting quality and wait time goals.
    1. This includes obtaining all required information for hospital/clinic records and billing systems, obtaining patient and/or responsible party signatures on registration and providing required information to patients/responsible party concerning Advanced Directives if applicable, Privacy, Medicare and required other compliance or consent forms.
    2. This may also include insurance coverage verification, obtaining authorization for services requiring pre-certification or referral, collecting payments, and/or preparing charts/paperwork for patient visits.
  6. Depending on the assigned client location, may screen patients for Medicaid, Affordable care Act or hospital sponsored financial program and provides appropriate documentation and referral. May provide bedside financial counseling and collection support by telephone for patient balances after discharge.
  7. Depending on the assigned client location, may place an identification wristband on the patient and always follows hospital/clinic patient safety procedures for patient identification and medical record management.
  8. Performs clerical functions as needed, including answering phones, taking messages, chart processing, filing, faxing, etc.
  9. Depending on the assigned client location, may cross-train in patient services for other departments and/or work in other departments to cover for staffing gaps.
  10. Continually serves as nThrive's front line ambassador for ensuring each patient is treated with respect and receives the highest quality care and service.
  11. Supports nThrive's Compliance Program by adhering to policies and procedures pertaining to HIPAA, FDCPA, FCRA and other laws applicable to nThrive's business practices.
    1. This includes becoming familiar with nThrive's Code of Ethics, attending training as required, notifying management or nThrive's Helpline when there is a compliance concern or incident.
    2. HIPAA-compliant handling of patient information.
    3. Demonstrable awareness of confidentiality obligations.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Experience showing initiative, including anticipating customer needs and going the extra mile to ensure an engaging and positive customer experience.
  • Demonstrated experience communicating effectively with a customer and simplifying complex information.
  • Experience working with customer support including issue resolution management.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize departmental functions to meet both timed deadlines and quality expectations with great attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to meet performance objectives.
  • Ability to cross-train in other patient services departments.
  • Demonstrated success working both individually and in a team environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technology, hospital/clinic protocols and commercial/government insurance plans, and to be fully trained and operating independently within the 90-day training period.
  • The work schedule may vary. The standard schedule for this position is posted, however, schedules can change over time and this role will also be asked to cover shifts as needed for schedule gaps.
  • Experience working within the registration process in a hospital or physician office setting, including demonstrated success obtaining patient demographic and financial information, handling insurance verification and obtaining authorizations preferred.
  • Knowledge of commercial and government insurance plans, payer networks, government resources, and medical terminology preferred.
  • Basic understanding of patient access services and the overall effect on the revenue cycle. An understanding of commercial and government insurance plans, payer networks, government resources, and medical terminology preferred.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
  • Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
  • Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.


About Us

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

About the Team

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care.

Culture Commitments

We create a space where all Belong

We Work as One to make great things happen

We earn Trust in all we do

We Innovate to better the now and create the future

We drive for Excellence - always
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