We are Vista Hospital. Our primary function is to offer continuous nursing, medical, and other health and social services on a 24-hour basis, under physician directed care and RN supervision. The patient account cashier's responsibilities include timely and accurately completing of deposits, balancing daily payments, providing service to patients and employees and maintaining financial records.

Responsibilities:

• Provides accurate, timely service to all individuals that either presents in person to the cashier office or call.
• Receives patient payments and deposits by check, cash, money order or credit card.
• Calculates and enters daily cash collection on Point of Service reports and forwards to designated individuals on a daily and monthly basis.
• Verifies and prepares daily cash bags/boxes for registration, gift shop and cafeteria.
• Receives payment and discusses receipts for employee I.D. badges, physician rent fees, service fees, meals, and/or various other services.
• Obtains change from Security Armored Car Services to sell to Gift Shop and/or Cafeteria.
• Debits return checks to proper account, notifies remitter of return and posts returned or guaranteed check fees.
• Posts ambulance transport charges to patient bills and monitors ambulance bill for accuracy when submitted for payment.
• Balances, prepares and enters the Cash Report and spreadsheet (copy of CRJ) for the controller including all cash, checks and credit card income per established department procedure.
• Accepts patient valuables for safekeeping and logs out when they are collected by patient upon discharge.
• Assists switchboard / mail clerk by providing home addresses for forwarding mail to discharged patients.
• Posts daily amount collected and number of times collected by individual admitting registrars to assist management in performance review and quality control.

Requirements:

• High School graduate or equivalent required, some college preferred; Accounting background preferred.
• Recent cashier, bank teller or accounting experience preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of function and relationships of departments within a hospital environment preferred.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of insurance requirements and credit guidelines.
• Demonstrated excellent customer services skills / abilities.