What are the responsibilities and job description for the Emergency Department Clerk position at ChristianaCare?
Responsibilities
Key Functions
The Emergency Department Clerk will be responsible for following established department guidelines to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness of patient registrations and throughout in the emergency department. This includes greeting all customers, including patients, family members and visitors in a caring and professional manner.
Key Functions
- Registers patients by collecting and entering accurate demographic and insurance information including verification of certain insurance types.
- Maintains a solid working knowledge of third-party specifics relative to the Emergency Department, reducing financial risk for all parties; maximize delivery of care.
- Performs clerical duties related to admission/discharge/transfer using the system.
- Determines insurance eligibility status using electronic data exchanges/third-party eligibility websites.
- Determine and collect guarantor payments (co-payments) due at time of service, when permissible.
- Obtains all necessary signatures on treatment & financial consents.
- Manage communication in the various areas of the Emergency Department using proper telephone etiquette.
- Provides waiting room customer service and wayfinding by assisting patient, family and visitors as needed.
- Serves as a liaison to ancillary departments as needed by completing STAT registrations as needed.
- Follows procedure to initiate, notify and document notification of organizational emergency codes (I.e., Code Blue, Trauma Alert/Code, Heart Alert/RRT etc.) after hours to ensure various parties within the hospital receive secure notification in a timely manner.
- Provides afterhours switchboard support by handling incoming/outgoing calls.
- Assist in providing registration workflow training of newly hired department caregivers.
- Always maintains patient confidentiality.
- Performs assigned work safely, adhering to established safety rules and practices.
- Reports on any unsafe activities, conditions, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients, and visitors in a timely manner.
- Perform other related duties as required.
