Clinic Office Specialist - FT - Days - Eye Institute (Dr. Montes)

DHR Health; McAllen (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

DHR Health is seeking a Clinic Office Specialist to join our Eye Institute. This full-time days position supports the physician practice by handling front desk duties, patient registration, insurance verification and billing assistance with strong customer service.

The ideal candidate will be bilingual (English/Spanish), have at least one year of medical receptionist experience, and be proficient with Microsoft Office in a high-volume medical setting.

Qualifications

• High School/GED preferred.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Minimum of one year medical receptionist experience.

Responsibilities

• Working front desk, greet patients and visitors; provide excellent customer service.
• Answer phones and direct calls appropriately in a busy office.
• Make appointments for new and established patients.
• Register new patients and review information for established patients.
• Insurance verification and verification of patient demographics.

Skills

Bilingual - English/Spanish

Customer service

Education

High School/GED

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Clinic Office Specialist - FT - Days - Eye Institute (Dr. Montes) - 22302

Description

Summary

Our Mission is to improve the well-being of those we serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time.

VISION:

Our Vision is to create a world-class health system to advance medicine and increase access for the communities we serve by empowering caregivers to heal through compassion, knowledge, innovation, integrated care and excellence.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Clinic Office Specialist is a key member of the Physician Practice and provides clinical/administrative expertise to ensure all patients receive high quality, efficient care. Team members are responsible to answer phones, register patients, verify insurance and help with billing using their best customer service skills.

POSITION EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS :

• High School/GED preferred
• Computer skills required with knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Good written and verbal communication skills required
• Bilingual – English/Spanish, required

JOB KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE :

• Minimum of one (1) year medical receptionist experience required
• Previous experience in a high volume medical office setting is preferred
• Medical terminology experience/education, preferred
• Previous experience working with spreadsheets preferred

Responsibilities

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working front desk, greet patients and visitors; be courteous, polite and helpful to the public, patients and clients at all times when representing the practice, providing excellent customer service
• Respect and maintain privacy and dignity of patients; assure confidentiality at all times
• Ability to answer and direct all phone calls appropriately received in a busy office practice maintaining the customer service skills as set forth by Renaissance Medical Foundation
• Ability to take accurate and understandable messages and route them to the appropriate party as necessary
• Make appointments for new and established patients
• Register new patients and review information on established patients as they return to the office
• Note cancelled and rescheduled appointments through prescribed protocols set up by the office, and documented in the EMR
• File faxed/scanned information in charts for review by provider, if needed
• Working at the reception desk, checking patients both in and out of the practice as needed, and properly documenting registration including insurance coverage
• Communicating with patients and providers
• Scheduling, canceling, and rescheduling patient appointments
• Reminding patients of upcoming appointments and tracking missed appointments
• Forwarding telephone calls appropriately and following up on return calls
• Insurance verification and verification of patient demographics for established patients
• Retrieving and filing of medical records and delivering/scanning to the appropriate providers as needed
• Weekly statistical reporting for Manager using excel as needed
• Other copying, filing, scanning and faxing duties
• Collecting co-pays and cash from patients, getting authorization on credit cards
• Prepare deposit for team member to deposit in bank as needed
• Entering charges, payments, and daily balancing, as needed
• Prepare and scan packets needed for billing as needed
• Other duties as assigned

LINES OF REPSONSIBILITY :

(Chain-of-command)

1. Office Manager 2. Director DHR Health Clinics 3. Chief Ambulatory Officer

Other information

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principals including: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Service.

AGE SPECIFIC :

Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirement relative to his or her age.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: (ADA) :

A. Essential Duties

Indicated by bold print within performance standards, preceding individual numbered criteria.

The following table provides physical requirements that will be associated with, but not limited to, this position:

• Light/moderate lifting up to 20 lbs, from the floor to shoulder height.
• Yes
• Kneeling
• Yes
• Must be able to assist other employees with lifting more than 20 lbs.
• Yes
• Walking
• Yes
• Light/moderate carrying up to 20 lbs.
• Yes
• Yes
• Straight pulling
• Yes
• Yes
• Pulling hand over hand
• Yes
• Pushing
• Yes
• Repeated bending
• Yes
• Yes
• Reaching above shoulder
• Yes
• Yes
• Yes
• Climbing Ladders
• No
• Dual simultaneous grasping
• Yes
• Depth Perceptions needed
• Yes
• Ability to see
• Yes
• Yes
• Operating office equipment
• Yes
• Twisting
• Yes
• Operating mechanical equipment
• Yes
• No
• Ability to read and write
• Yes
• Ability to Count
• Yes
• Ability to hear verbal communication without aid
• Yes
• Operating Personal Vehicle
• Yes
• Ability to comprehend written/verbal communication
• Yes
• Other: Ability to deal with stress
• Yes
• OSHA Category
• III

B. Working Conditions

The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air-conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents.

C. Occupational Exposure:

This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III (although situations can be imagined or hypothesized under which anyone, anywhere, might encounter potential exposure to body fluids). Person who performs these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

Intelligence:

General learning ability: The ability to catch on or understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. 3

Verbal:

Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them, and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly. 3

Numerical:

Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. 2

Spatial:

Ability to comprehend forms in space and understands relationships of plane and solid objects. Frequently described as the ability to visualize objects or two or three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms. 2

Form Perception:

Ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines. 3

Clerical Perception:

Ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material. To observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation. 2

Motor Coordination:

Ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly. 3

Finger Dexterity:

Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with fingers in placing and turning motions. 3

Manual Dexterity:

Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with hands in placing and turning motions. 3

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination:

Ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. 3

Color Discrimination:

Ability to perceive and respond to similarities or differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different color. To identify a particular color, or to recognize harmonious or contrasting color combinations, or to match color adequately. 3

I have read and reviewed my job description with my supervisor or designee and I understand the job I am expected to perform.

If applicable ____________ certification will be completed within _________ time frame of hire/transfer date.

Employee Signature: ________________________________ Date: ____________________