Emergency Room Patient Access Specialist

Alomere Health; Alexandria, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Health clinic

401(k) match

Job summary

Alomere Health is seeking an Emergency Room Patient Access Representative for part-time coverage in the Patient Access - Emergency Room department. Shifts include days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays with a 0.8 FTE (64 hours per pay period).

The role supports inpatient admissions, ED and outpatient registrations while ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. Training provided to stay current with EMR systems.

Qualifications

• Perform patient registrations while completing them accurately
• Scan needed ID's and insurance cards
• Complete emergency room, outpatient, and inpatient registrations
• Obtain demographic, insurance, and guarantor information as well as appropriate signatures for documentation
• Manage Organizational Telecommunications
• Paging Codes-Organization wide
• Phone Systems
• Ambulance and Law Enforcement
• Outgoing flights for Medi flights
• Contact on-call Physicians to relay messages
• Find assistance for urgent patients needing help from their vehicle to wheelchair
• Coordinate on the job development/employee training
• Manage workqueues to ensure completion of patient charts
• Keep up to date on all EMR software utilized for the position
• Identify patients as they are entering the ER area
• Assist patients in registration, sitting them in a wheelchair if needed, and contacting the Triage nurse/Charge Nurse as needed
• Follow guidelines developed to assist in rooming patients
• Remain within a PAR's scope of practice while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for patient care
• Monitor overflow patients when rooms are full and alert nursing if patient's status changes
• Responsible for locking down Alomere Health during emergent situations
• Manage the Alarm Systems

Responsibilities

• Perform patient registrations while completing them accurately
• Scan needed IDs and insurance cards
• Complete emergency room, outpatient, and inpatient registrations
• Obtain demographic, insurance, and guarantor information as well as appropriate signatures for documentation
• Manage Organizational Telecommunications
• Paging Codes-Organization wide
• Phone Systems
• Ambulance and Law Enforcement
• Outgoing flights for Medi flights
• Contact on-call Physicians to relay messages
• Find assistance for urgent patients needing help from their vehicle to wheelchair
• Coordinate on the job development/employee training
• Manage workqueues to ensure completion of patient charts
• Keep up to date on all EMR software utilized for the position
• Identify patients as they are entering the ER area
• Assist patients in registration, sitting them in a wheelchair if needed, and contacting the Triage nurse/Charge Nurse as needed
• Follow guidelines developed to assist in rooming patients
• Remain within a PAR's scope of practice while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for patient care
• Monitor overflow patients when rooms are full and alert nursing if patient's status changes
• Responsible for locking down Alomere Health during emergent situations
• Manage the Alarm Systems

Job description

Alomere Health is seeking an Emergency Room Patient Access Representative for part-time coverage in the Patient Access - Emergency Room department. Shifts include days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays with a 0.8 FTE (64 hours per pay period).

The role supports inpatient admissions, ED and outpatient registrations while ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. Training provided to stay current with EMR systems.