Front Desk Patient Financial Services

bannerhealth; Arizona; On-site; USD 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Medical Group in Queen Creek, AZ is seeking a Front Office Representative to support patient flow by answering phones, scheduling appointments, and handling registration and insurance information. This role collaborates with medical staff to deliver a great patient experience in a fast-paced clinic environment.

Responsibilities include verifying insurance, collecting patient liabilities, posting payments, and assisting with referrals and authorizations, with daily reconciliation and

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 1+ year patient financial services or insurance processes experience.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with common office software (word processing, spreadsheets, databases).

Responsibilities

• Registration/check-in and data entry with patient and insurance information.
• Verify insurance eligibility benefits; obtain pre-certifications, referrals, and authorizations.
• Collect patient liability; explain financial policies and payment options.
• Enter payments/charges and reconcile daily; balance cash drawer and deposit.
• Schedule office visits/procedures; confirm next-day appointments and prep patients.
• Maintain strong customer service; communicate with patients, care teams, and payors.
• Respond to requests for patient medical records per policy and law.
• Provide patient services to assist flow (escort, vitals, etc.).
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment with prioritization and judgment.

Skills

Customer service

Interpersonal communication

Data entry

Multitasking

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Primary City/State: San Tan Valley, Arizona

Department Name: BIMC Int Med-Clinic

Work Shift: Day

Job Category: Revenue Cycle

Health care is changing, and it’s our goal to create a new model to answer America’s health care challenges today and in the future. Our passionate and talented teams will be the change on the health care landscape in our communities – big and small. If taking access and delivery from complex to easy, from costly to affordable and from unpredictable to reliable sounds interesting to you, we want to hear from you.

Bring your desire to learn and grow with us to our ever-growing clinic, where you’ll be working side by side with medical staff to create a great patient experience. As a Front Office Rep on our team, we offer a customer-focused and friendly work environment with career growth opportunities. A career with our team is great if you are just starting out or have many years of experience. Bring your desire to learn and grow with us to our ever-growing Primary Care Clinic, where you’ll be working side by side with medical staff to create a great patient experience. Bring your dedication and determination to succeed. You will have a daily opportunity to learn new things and utilize your decision-making skills to make a difference in the lives in our patients

Location: 37100 N Gantzel Rd #201 Queen Creek AZ

Monday-Friday 8a-5p. Some floating to our Merrill Ranch location for call outs or vacation days (sister clinic)

At Banner Medical Group, you'll have the opportunity to perform a critical role in the community where you practice. Banner Medical Group provides both primary and specialty care throughout the communities in which Banner Health operates. We do this in a variety of settings - from smaller group practices like our Banner Health Clinics in Colorado and Wyoming, to large multi-specialty Banner Health Centers in the metropolitan Phoenix area. We currently have more than 1,000 physicians and more than 3,500 total employees in our group and are seeking others to enhance our ability to deliver our nonprofit mission of providing excellent patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position coordinates a smooth patient flow process by answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, providing registration of patient and insurance information, obtaining required signatures following established processes, procedures and standards. This position also verifies insurance coverage, validates referrals and authorizations, collects patient liability and provides financial guidance to patients to maximize medical services reimbursement efforts. This also includes accurately posting patients at the point of service and releasing information in accordance with organizational and compliance policies and guidelines.

CORE FUNCTIONS

• 1. Performs registration/check-in processes, including but not limited to performing data entry activities, providing patients with appropriate information and intake forms, obtaining necessary signatures and generating population health summary.


• 2. Verifies insurance eligibility benefits for services rendered with the payors and documents appropriately. Assists in obtaining or validating pre-certification, referrals, and authorizations


• 3. Calculates and collects patient liability according to verification of insurance benefits and expected reimbursement. Explains and provides financial policies and available resources for alternative payment arrangements to patients and their families.


• 4. Enters payments/charges for services rendered and performs daily payment/charge reconciliation in a timely and accurate manner. Balances cash drawer at the beginning and end of the day and prepares daily bank deposit with necessary paperwork sent to centralized billing for record purposes.


• 5. Schedules office visits and procedures within the medical practice(s) and external practices as necessary. Maximizes reimbursement by scheduling patients in accordance with payor plan provisions. Confirms patient appointments for the following day as necessary and ensures patients are properly prepared for visits.


• 6. Demonstrates proactive interpersonal communications skills while dealing with patient concerns through telephone calls, emails and in-person conversations. Optimizes patient flow by using effective customer service/communication skills by communicating to internal and external customers, care team, management, centralized services and HIMS.


• 7. Assists in responding to requests for patient medical records according to company policies and procedures, and state and federal laws.


• 8. Provides a variety of patient services to assist in patient flow including but not limited to escorting patients, taking vitals and patient history, assisting in patient treatment, distributing mail and fax information, ordering supplies, etc.


• 9. Works independently under regular supervision and follows structured work routines. Works in a fast paced, multi-task environment with high volume and immediacy needs requiring independent decision making and sound judgment to prioritize work and ensure appropriateness and timeliness of each patient’s care. This position requires the ability to retain large amounts of changing payor information/knowledge crucial to attaining reimbursement for the services provided. Primary external customers include patients and their families, physician office staff and third party payors.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.

Requires knowledge of patient financial services, financial, collecting services or insurance industry experience processes normally acquired over one or more years of work experience. Requires the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with minimal supervision and to work independently.

Requires strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills to effectively interact with a wide range of audiences. Strong knowledge in the use of common office software, word processing, spreadsheet, and database software are required.

Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital, BTMC Behavioral, and BUMG, BUMCT, or BUMCS in a Behavioral Health clinical setting that serves children must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment. An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Work experience with the Company’s systems and processes is preferred. Previous cash collections experience is preferred.

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