Care Access Specialist -Patient Access Center - CASI

UNC REX Healthcare; Morrisville (NC); Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Care Access Specialist, where you'll play a vital role in patient registration and support by scheduling appointments and providing essential communication between patients, staff, and providers. This full-time role in Morrisville, NC, emphasizes exceptional customer service and requires a high school diploma along with relevant clerical experience.

Qualifications

• Three (3) years of customer service and/or clerical experience required.

Responsibilities

• Ensures excellent customer service by demonstrating a caring disposition.
• Schedules new and follow-up patient appointments as required.
• Verifies patient information to ensure accuracy.

Skills

Customer service

Clerical skills

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

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Care Access Specialist -Patient Access Center - CASI

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Job ID: 179084
Location: Morrisville, NC
Facility/Division: Shared Services
Status: Full Time
Shift: Day Job

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

Summary:The Care Access Specialist team serves as the information center and first point of contact for the patient community, staff, and physicians. This role assists in the patient registration process by scheduling outpatient appointments, entering patient information, and transferring calls to appropriate personnel and coordinating communication between business units.

Responsibilities:
1.Ensures excellent customer service by consistently demonstrating a caring, positive, professional, and helpful disposition with all customer relations. Meets call quality standards
2.Ensures and verifies key patient information (insurance verification, patient and guarantor demographics, etc.) is current and accurate to ensure patient safety, charging, coding, insurance processing, and billing accuracy.
3.Schedules all new and follow-up patient appointments as required. Attempt to reschedule cancellations whenever possible. Communicates cancellations to provider as necessary.
4.Manages incoming and outgoing referrals for multiple clinics. Follows referral management policies and procedures.
5.Answers telephones, directs calls, takes and delivers messages in Epic.
6.Enhances co-worker satisfaction by being self-motivated, a positive communicator, team player, and a willing and approachable resource to other co-workers. Demonstrates willingness to change to ensure continuous improvement.
7.Actively participates in departmental QA by utilizing system work queues, making a personal effort to reduce individual errors, and making corrections. Utilizes system work queues as a daily part of the registration process to minimize errors.
8.Effectively precepts new co-workers as assigned.
9. Message and respond to patient messages in the two-way texting platform
10. Answers clinic and provider in-basket messages
11. Work clinic cancellation, no show, recall worklists
12. Other admin work as needed

Other Information

Other information:
Education Requirements:
● High School Diploma or GED
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
Professional Experience Requirements:
● Three (3) years of customer service and/or clerical experience required.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Patient Access Center - CASI

Work Type: Full Time

Salary Range:$18.66 - $26.51 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Remote

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

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