Client Services - Laboratory - Per Diem

Guthrie; City of Cortland (NY); Sur place; USD 24 000 - 33 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Guthrie Lab Client Services in Cortland, NY seeks a Lab Client Service Representative to greet patients, enter orders, answer calls, and liaise with physicians and staff. You will handle billing edits in EPIC, review demographics, and provide protocol information for lab tests. A strong customer-service ethic and confidentiality are essential.

High school diploma required; some lab experience preferred. The role emphasizes teamwork in a fast-paced environment with strict HIPAA compliance and

Qualifications

• Good typing skills and computer experience desirable.
• Excellent phone etiquette, customer service and verbal skills.
• Self-directed with excellent organizational, analytical, writing and communication skills are a must.

Responsabilités

• Greet every patient in a courteous, professional, and timely manner.
• Perform Order Entry of laboratory orders as needed.
• Answer telephones in a friendly and efficient manner; screen calls and log messages.
• Act as liaison between patients, physicians, hospital staff, and laboratorians.
• Prioritize daily tasks in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Maintain HIPAA confidentiality.
• Participate in quality initiatives.
• Assist patients with questions about laboratory testing.
• Print, scan, process, and distribute laboratory reports.

Connaissances

Typing skills

Phone etiquette

Customer service

Communication

Organizational

Analytical

Time management

Formation

High School diploma

Description du poste

Lab Client Services provide front line customer service support both in person and on the phone for a variety of customer requests. Lab Client Service Representatives research and resolve or assist in the resolution of incidents while working closely with the Leadership Team to prevent reoccurrence. Lab Client Service Representatives respond to customer inquiries, physician, and patients relative to orders, results, costs, etc. They also perform billing and billing audit functions, edits, etc.

Experience

Possesses good typing skills; word processing and computer experience desirable. Demonstrates excellent phone etiquette, customer service and verbal skills. A demonstrated ability to be self-directed with excellent organizational, analytical, writing and communication skills are a must.

Education

High School graduate/GED required. Some laboratory experience preferred.

Essential Functions

1. Responsible for greeting every patient in a courteous, professional, and timely manner every time.
2. Performing Order Entry of laboratory orders as needed.
3. Responsible for answering telephones in a friendly and efficient manner in conjunction with Guthrie's Telephone Standards. Screens telephone calls, processes and logs incoming messages (phone, fax, etc.), documents complete messages and transfers calls as appropriate.
4. Performs liaison duties between patients, physicians, hospital staff, laboratorians, etc., keeping the departments fully aware of all necessary information.
5. Adheres to departmental and organizational policies and attends meetings/huddles as required.
6. Requires the ability to prioritize daily tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, ever changing work environment within a strong team structure.
7. Maintains strict confidentiality related to patient health information in accordance with HIPAA compliance.
8. Participate in all quality initiatives established by the organization.
9. Assists patients with questions and issues related to laboratory testing.
10. Prints, scans, processes, and distributes laboratory reports to all clients (including but not limited to: physicians, medical records, archival, etc.).
11. Provides protocol information and guides specimen collection.
12. Serves as Laboratory contact person relative to proper requisitioning of laboratory testing orders and functionality of order communication application.
13. Searches for results, investigates problems associated with services breakdown in results reporting.
14. Obtains pricing and coding information to charge for laboratory testing as appropriate.
15. Reconciles billing edits in the EPIC system, as well as adding and removing charges, investigating and addressing billing issues as necessary.
16. Helps regional offices with purchasing supplies, CPT code numbers, test pricing, canceling and/or adding tests.
17. Prepares laboratory travel charges for professional billing.
18. Reviews, verifies and corrects patient demographic and insurance information in the patient's confidential medical record.
19. Retrieves and disseminates hard copy patient information as requested from files, LIS, photocopy, medical records, storage or computer.
20. Documents all client incidents and identifies trends or recurring problems to provide long term resolution which enhances customer satisfaction.
21. Investigates and resolves patient complaints and billing problems.
22. Orders needed office supplies for the laboratory.
23. Processes and distributes all incoming and outgoing mail.
24. Greets, assists, and directs customers requiring assistance or direction.
25. Observes proper safety practices in performance of job duties.
26. Follows laboratory policy and procedures.
27. Uses good judgment and maintains a professional, mature, positive attitude while performing job duties.
28. Other duties as assigned.

Other Duties

1. Provides support to the manager and/or lead, providers, billing, clinical staff and most importantly the patients.
2. Responsible to report any areas of concern to Manager or Supervisor and provides support in dealing with complex issues.
3. Stays current and learns new skills as needed to perform all aspects of position.
4. Required to do all yearly mandatory training modules as well as any other training required of the job.
5. Assist in training of all employees as assigned.
6. Sorts workload in order of importance and maintains flexibility to handle emergencies as they arise.
7. Assists with and completes other projects or duties as assigned.

The pay for this position ranges from $17.34-$23.96 per hour.