What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Service Representative position at The Surgical Clinic?
Patient Service Representative provides customer service, in person as well as with telephone etiquette, greets patients and visitors upon arrival to clinic, schedules appointments, maintains medical records, verifies insurance, and ensures that experiences with our office are held to a superior standard. Knowing that surgery is a stressful time, it is important to confidently provide excellent customer service.
Essential Functions:
- Primary responsibility is to provide excellent customer service to patients, referring physicians, and anyone that calls our office.
- Perform front offices duties including, but not limited to: checking in patients and visitors for appointments and meetings, collecting copays, deductibles and self-pay balances; direct patient flow to ensure clinic efficiency; monitor waiting room
- Verifies demographics and insurance, and obtain referrals/authorizations prior to visit.
- Closing out end of day reports, collecting all money received to balance with reports, then submitting to CBO.
- Send appropriate paperwork and/or letters to patients regarding appointments.
- Schedule appointments and maintain clinic schedules for multiple physicians.
- Maintaining multiline phone system; obtaining appropriate information to transfer calls to proper person.
- Maintain patient records and process medical record request following HIPAA guidelines.
- Scanning patient records into EMR.
- Distribute dictated office notes and letters to referring offices.
- File patient data upon receipt of information.
- Performing data entry, copying, faxing, emailing.
- Performing other duties as requested
Qualifications :
- Medical Terminology, specifically related to Vascular and General Surgery
- Interpersonal/human relations skills, including telephone etiquette
- Organizational skills
- Electronic Medical Record
- Ability to set priorities while multitasking
- Ability to maintain confidentiality according to HIPAA guidelines
- Knowledge of modern office equipment
Work Days/Hours:
- This is a full-time (40 hours per week) position
This job description is not an exhaustive list of all of the functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional job functions. The company reserves the right to revise the job description at any time.
TSC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, disability, age, national origin, religion, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected class as outlined by the federal, local, or state government.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $15.00 - $17.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Work Location: One location
Salary : $15 - $17