25 Feb
Patient Access Rep II, LEAD
Washington, Gigharbor 00000 Gigharbor USA

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Patient Access Rep II, LEADLocation: GIG HARBOR, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATESNew Requisition #: 2020-R0276839Job Type: Full TimeScheduled Hours per 2 Week Pay Period: 80Daily Schedule: Day ShiftWeekends Required: NoLocation: Gig Harbor, WA Franciscan Medical Group is current seeking a full time Patient Access Rep II, Lead for our Franciscan Medical Clinic in Gig Harbor. Come join our team based environment within a busy primary care clinic. Monday through Friday with no weekends, nights or major holidays required. CHI Franciscan Health has exciting and rewarding careers with competitive salaries and benefits. We are a family of hospitals, health care services, and medical providers delivering compassionate care to people throughout the South Puget Sound. We are part of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country.Our mission is to deliver high quality care that meets our patients' medical needs while providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. We believe this three-part approach — physical, emotional, and spiritual — is essential to healing the whole person. Come join our team!Job Summary:Performs a variety of general administrative support duties associated with the patient intake process for the Franciscan Medical Group (FMG) outpatient clinics in accordance with established internal guidelines and procedures. Incumbents typically interact with patients directly at the front desk and/or on the phone to perform follow-up activities.Work includes: 1) ensuring patient is checked in/out for care, 2) collecting and entering demographic and financial data in the patient’s medical record, 3) gathering/validating insurance information using routine methods, scheduling patient appointments, 4) collecting co-pays, co-insurance and prior balances, 5) obtaining and processing of referrals, authorizations and pre-certifications for patients requiring ancillary testing and/or surgical procedures, and 6) working with patients to ensure the patient’s referral needs are fulfilled and determining insurance benefit coverage for hardware related items such as retail contact lenses by working directly with patients’ insurance carriers, ever needed. Work requires critical thinking, hearing the needs of the patient meeting those needs by offering multiple options and solutions, knowledge of insurance authorization/billing requirements and privacy/confidentiality practices, as well as knowledge of medical terminology and the patient intake process. An incumbent following proper channels of communication in handling daily and routine problems and recognizing issues that need referral to management. Strong customer service skills are required offering the highest level of service to every patient every time.This job exists in multiple locations, and while there may be minor differences in job content, they are not significant for classification purposes. Overall, the nature of the work and job requirements is consistent between locations.An incumbent is located either behind-the-scenes, interacting with patients on the phone or at the front desk, interacting with patients directly. The incumbent may also be located in a Call Center environment interacting with patients on the phone.LEAD: An incumbent performs much the same work as the Patient Access Representative II, participating in the day-to-day operations of the work unit, with “lead” work comprising a large portion of the overall job. A Lead is engaged primarily in 1) serving as the point-person for staff as relates to patient access activities, and 2) for monitoring work for adherence to established policies/standards.The work requires knowledge of the policies, procedures and equipment applicable to the work unit at appointment.Essential Duties:Registers and/or checks patients in/out.Handles and reconciles payments.Continually monitors and reconciles issues prior to patient visit.Processes referral orders and/or pre-authorizations.Coordinates appointments and ancillary services.Responds to patient questions regarding routine billing and insurance matters.Coordinates patient instructional/educational activities.Lead Job Duties Provides orientation and/or on-the-job training to new or lower-level patient access staff regarding regionally-approved guidelines and procedures. Monitors individual performance to ensure that accuracy and productivity standards are being met in a satisfactory manner and completes performance feedback process; provides input into formal employee performance evaluations; participates in evaluating and selecting continuing educational opportunities for staff. Participates in the development and updating policies and procedures; explains new and/or revised procedures, forms or other tools to staff. Receives and resolves patient access related issues. Performs day to day workload distribution activities to ensure staff has appropriate work load.Job Requirements:One year of customer service work experience is required, two years preferred.Healthcare or Call Center experience preferred.LEAD: A minimum of one year of work experience as a Patient Access Representative II (or equivalent), or any combination of experience or education that would demonstrate the capability to meet the requirements of the position. Previous “lead” or supervisory experience is desirable.Additional Information

Requisition ID: 2020-R0276839

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Market: CHI-Franciscan Medical Group

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