What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Admin Specialist position at Ascend?
Job Description
Job Description
Our healthcare client is searching for a Patient Admin Specialist for a contract opportunity with the potential to extend long-term. This is an onsite position in Palo Alto.
A Brief Overview :
The primary responsibility of the Patient Administrative Specialist is to handle new patient coordination, surgery scheduling, and other front office functions in the outpatient clinical setting. A Patient Administrative Specialist supports any and all administrative tasks related to the daily operations of the clinic.
What you will do :
- Primary Function : Entry, Front Desk, check-in / out.
- Greets and welcomes patients and assists them with initial questions regarding appointments, payments, schedules, etc.
- Answers multi-line phone, screens and routes calls, takes messages for clinic staff and physicians. Assures appropriate verifications and authorizations are complete before patient sees provider.
- Communicate with providers regarding scheduling preferences, and ability to respond to urgent patient needs.
- Provide doctor-patient support using reference documents and tools.
- Carry out various administrative tasks, including maintaining information and paging directory databases, and processing internal forms.
- Utilize all functionality of the telephone system and electronic medical records systems in performing assigned job tasks.
- Meet / Exceed organizational and department service standards.
- Answers non-clinical CRMs, escalating where appropriate.
- Answers non-clinical patient messages, escalating where appropriate.
- Managing and distributing faxes, mail, and filing of clinic-specific documentation.
Education Qualifications :
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
Licenses and Certifications :
The rate range for this position is $23-38 / HR DOE.
Salary : $23 - $38
