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Front office Associate

Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Marietta, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/8/2025

Facility: Marietta Podiatry Group

Job Summary:


The Front Office Specialist (FOS) is responsible for illustrating exceptional customer service and focus to WellStar's patients and customers. This includes greeting customers, registering patients at check-in and check-out, answering telephones, scheduling appointments, cash management, and/or administrative functions that support the practice's operations. The FOS is an important team member in achieving patient experience, employee engagement, and financial goals. This position is considered a highly functioning position where the team member must be able to multi-task while at the same time communicate with various customers.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:


__Customer Service:__
* a. In Adherence to our AIDET principles, the FOS will greet patients and guests in a warm, friendly manner in person or on the telephone, identifying self and practice.
* b. Answering incoming calls; directing to appropriate personnel, taking messages when appropriate within the EHR, handling non-clinical processes, and scheduling patient appointments as requested.
* c. Communicating quickly and often with patients, if there is a delay or wait for patient care.
* d. Working with both clinical staff and providers in a team approach.
* e. Managing patient call wait times; being alert to queues in the system, responding to voicemails and messages timely, offer options to call patients back, if they are on hold too long
__Operations/Revenue Cycle:__
* a. Registering/scheduling patients for appointments; ensuring patient insurance eligibility through Experion, checking in patients, scanning insurance cards and ID into the EHR, and ensuring completion of all necessary paperwork.
* b. Collecting co-pays and any outstanding balances, adherence to the WMG LD90 cash management policy.
* c. Managing cash allowance; verifying opening balance, ensuring all correct change and collections are made and accounted for, accurately balancing superbills/posting report with bank bag for each daily close.
* d. Checking patients out; collecting any deductibles or self-pay account balances, setting up payment arrangements on balances, and/or scheduling next appointment visits
* e. Contacting patients for appointment reminders
__Administrative:__
* Coordinating with the clinic for pharmaceutical representatives, visitors, sample pick-ups, and other clinic requests
* Other duties as assigned by management.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

  • High School Diploma

Required Minimum Experience:


1-2 years administrative front office experience in a physician practice or health care setting Preferred and
Previous customer service experience Required

Required Minimum Skills:


Computer skills essential.
Medical terminology including coding needed (CPT-4, ICD-9, and HCPCS) preferred.
Knowledge of insurance filing and requirements.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Must be able to communicate and understand verbal and written English language and display a positive attitude while working in a team setting.

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