Patient Access Representative - Corporate Patient Access - Full Time

Position Summary:

Communicates with patients, participants and staff to accurately schedule patients for prescribed procedures. Performs clerical and reception duties associated with patient registration.

Education, License & Cert:

High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

Experience:

• Customer/patient relations experience required (preferably in a healthcare setting).
• At least 1‐year experience in a position requiring frequent and direct in‐person customer contact.

• Candidate should have experience in a role that requires:
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Excellent verbal communication skills
  • Frequent keyboarding
  • Exceptional attention to detail

   

Essential Functions:

1. Creates patient encounters in the EHR for ED, radiology, and outpatient patients. Performs all functions related to the integrity of the EHR (i.e., obtaining general consent for treatment, creating unknown encounters, merging records, scanning, prepared trauma packets)
2. Participates in daily auditing of registration processes.
3. Manages incoming and outgoing telephone calls, Vocera calls, Nurse call system.
4. Collects co‐pays and provides financial guidance related to paying outstanding balances, providing estimate letters for services rendered.
5. Performs the function of Health Information Management department after hours.

6. Participates in ED staff meetings and ED Shared Governance.

    

Other Duties:

Other duties as assigned.

Pay Range $17.00 - $22.82/hour, DOE

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.