Essential Job Functions:
- Ensures and adheres to 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 in the computer system. Record and collect necessary patient account documents. Collects self-pay balances, pre-payment amounts, and co-pays per guidelines. Covers both Hospital Admitting registration desk, ER admitting desk, and Urgent check in desk and complete in room registration and scheduling. Visits patient rooms to ensure all necessary registration documents have been signed. Creates accounts for new patients and update accounts for previous to ensure accurate services and account processing.
- Interprets physician orders and referrals to determine service needs and schedule patient visits while coordinating appointments with other departments to meet the needs of the 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 the 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.

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