Clerk/Registrar

Northwell Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking a general clerical receptionist to support a patient care unit, handling registration, records, and basic administrative tasks. You will greet patients, verify insurance data, complete forms, obtain consents, and assist with chart completion and transfers.

Strong typing and interpersonal skills are essential in this fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes accuracy, confidentiality and teamwork with clinical staff to ensure smooth patient flow and compliant

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of one year related registration/clerical experience with public contact.
• Typing 35 wpm and good interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Greet, interview and register patients or their representatives.
• Verify patient, guarantor, subscriber and insurance information and enter into the system.
• Complete required patient registration forms.
• Obtain, secure and witness required consents/signatures.
• Provide information on Advance Directives and Patient Rights; document responses for medical records.
• Attach vouchers to lab specimens and arrange transport to lab as required.
• Perform final chart review and ensure chart assembly is complete on discharge.
• Facilitate patient transfers to the Emergency department as needed.
• Answer phones, direct calls, file, photocopy and maintain bulletin boards.
• Perform clinic receptionist duties and monitor daily attendance/logs.
• Photocopy and maintain unit-specific forms.
• Report equipment needing repair and initiate work orders.
• Perform related duties as required.

Skills

Typing 35 wpm

Interpersonal skills

Public/patient contact

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Performs general clerical and receptionist duties supporting the patient care unit, including preparing, compiling and maintaining records in nursing unit.

Job Responsibility

• * Greets, interviews and registers patients or their representative.
• Verifies patient, guarantor, subscriber and insurance information and enters same into department computer system.
• Completes required forms for patient registration.
• Obtains, secures and witnesses required consents/signatures.
• Provides information regarding Advance Directives, Patient Bill of Rights and Notice of Privacy Practices. Completes questionnaire regarding Advance Directives for the patient's medical record.
• Attaches vouchers to lab specimens and arranges transport to lab, as required.
• Performs final chart review, incorporates loose sheets and ensures that the entire chart assembly is completed on discharge.
• Facilitates patient transfers to Emergency department, as required.
• Answers phones courteously, responds to requests for information, directs calls or takes messages, files, photocopies, faxes information, maintains bulletin boards, etc.
• Performs receptionist duties for clinic. Reviews and maintains daily attendance log. Informs clinical team member of pending appointments
• Photocopies and maintains supply of pertinent forms specific to unit.
• Reports all equipment needing repair and initiates work orders.
• Performs related duties as required.

*ADA Essential Functions

Job Qualification

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
• Minimum of one (1) year related registration/clerical experience with public contact, required.
• Typing 35 wpm, required.
• Good interpersonal skills to deal courteously with patients, families, physicians and all levels of hospital personnel, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).