Clinical Office Assistant - Maternal Fetal Center

St. Elizabeth Healthcare; Edgewood (KY); Presencial; USD 32.000 - 45.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage

PTO

Retirement match

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness programs

Career advancement

Descripción de la vacante

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is seeking a Clinical Office Assistant for the Maternal Fetal Center at Edgewood Hospital. The role involves patient registration, scheduling, billing, and supporting pre-certification activities to ensure smooth patient flow.

Strong computer skills and confidentiality are essential. You will handle multi-task front-desk duties, coordinate communications, and maintain accurate medical records.

Formación

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Familiar with medical terminology and healthcare workflows.
• Strong computer skills and ability to learn EMR/electronic records.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; maintain patient confidentiality.

Responsabilidades

• Handle patient registration, scheduling, and billing for a unit/department.
• Assist with pre-certification and insurance information collection.
• Manage medical records retrieval, release, and data entry.
• Answer phones and coordinate messages and referrals.
• Support front-desk operations and patient flow coordination.

Conocimientos

Medical terminology

Computer literacy

Customer service

Communication skills

Educación

High school diploma

Herramientas

EMR systems

Descripción del empleo

Clinical Office Assistant - Maternal Fetal Center

Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here.

Job Type:

Regular

Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here.

Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

• - Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• - Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• - Retirement savings with employer match
• - Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• - Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• - Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

The best career is right here.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Clinical Office Assistant for our Maternal Fetal Center located within the Edgewood Hospital.

Job Description:

Provide customer-focused service and support to patient flow in a unit based. This position may be responsible for a variety of duties based on the operations of department, including: 1) patient registration, 2) patient scheduling, 3) patient billing, 4) assist with pre-certification if applicable (collect insurance information; receipt of co-pays or bill payments), 5) medical records retrieval, release, or collection, 6) data entry and 7) answering phones. Responsible for routine problem resolution, assistance with patient flow coordination, and initiation of follow-up with appropriate staff as needed. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to patient privacy and confidentiality, i.e., HIPAA laws.

Job Duties:

Multi-task Role of Customer Service, Registration, Scheduling, and may assist with Pre-Certification:

• Provide courteous, respectful, and helpful service to patients, visitors, staff, and physicians seeking information and/or treatment: office, phone, email communications.
• Responsible for the patient registration process (check in and check out) for a unit or department.
• Assist patients with forms obtaining all necessary insurance information and signatures as needed.
• May assist in pre-certification and/consent for services and billing.
• May collect co-pay/co-insurance/deductible based on insurance plan(s).
• Accurately completes or assures completion of registration process and facilitates revenue enhancement through insurance verification, pre-authorization, verification of medical necessity and follow up of denials.
• Obtains treatment authorization(s).
• May collect patient co-pays, co-insurance, and/or deductible and follow up with insurance companies for payment, enter patient charges, and maintain monthly/quarterly record statistics, and code services/ procedures for charge reconciliation purposes.

Coordination of patient information and Clerical services:

• Answer and coordinate multiple phones lines, assist patients with questions and problems, and accepting/relaying messages.
• Relay messages to appropriate staff in order to facilitate communication and assure quality of care.
• Support co-workers in operational functions of the office including: front desk coverage, answering phones, running errands, and transporting patients.
• Prepares correspondence, memos, reports, minutes, and letters.
• Position may require data entry into multiple databases.

Customer Service & Problem Resolution:

• Resolve routine patient problems and complaints on a timely basis.
• Handles conflict with customers constructively and appropriately.
• Initiate further follow-up with appropriate staff member(s).

Medical Records

• Perform medical records tasks timely and accurately including: chart retrieval, storage, filing, and scanning in correct location of EMR.
• Maintains appropriate computer downtime procedures for clinical documentation.
• Coordinate scanning and storage of medical records

Other

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Maintains work area in a neat and clean manner.
• Ensure supplies and materials are available as needed

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• High school graduate or GED

Specialized Knowledge:

• Medical terminology
• Computer fluency/literacy
• Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Maintain patient confidentiality
• Organization and prioritization skills

Kind and Length of Experience:

1 year of experience in an office front desk type role, healthcare registration, scheduling or other patient-facing healthcare positions.

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.

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Ref. Number

JR314998

Job Category

Administrative and Business Professionals

Job Type

Other Non-Clinical

Department

Edgewood Maternal Fetal Center

Shift

1st Shift

Hours

40 hours