Medical Receptionist Primary Care

HealthPartners; Chanhassen, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement program

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Onsite clinic

Job summary

Park Nicollet is hiring a Medical Receptionist to join our Primary Care Frontline team. The role involves greeting patients, collecting co-pays, scheduling followups and referrals, and handling incoming calls with care and accuracy.

This position supports both Call Center and Front Desk duties, emphasizes excellent customer service, and requires maintaining patient confidentiality in a fast-paced environment. Monday–Friday day shifts with occasional Saturdays.

Qualifications

• 6 months related experience.
• Accurate computer/keyboard skills.
• Knowledge of age-related growth and development principles for safe patient care.
• Proficient in operating telephone equipment, PC, printer, photo copier and fax machine.

Responsibilities

• Answer and respond to incoming calls from patients and employer groups.
• Greet patients, collect co-pays, schedule follow-up appointments and referrals, and support clerical duties.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and provide courteous service to patients and colleagues.
• Support ongoing process improvements and adapt to department changes.

Skills

Phone etiquette

Communication skills

Computer skills

Multitasking

Customer service

Tools

Telephone equipment

Headsets

PC

Printer

Fax machine

Job description

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a Medical Receptionist to join our Primary Care Frontline team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

Position Summary

Call Center:

• Primarily responsible for rapidly and accurately answering and responding to incoming telephone calls from patients and/or employer groups. Employees will meet the department specific agent expectations regarding measurement and follow the defined guidelines and processes of the department.

Front Desk:

• Primarily responsible for providing support to greet patients, collect co-pays, schedule follow-up appointments and referrals and support departmental clerical duties.

Both areas will provide support to the department/site ensuring quality service through timely and courteous assistance and provide service support to patients and employers groups who request our care. They will both maintain patient confidentiality to protect patient rights.

Furthermore, employees will provide excellent customer service, complete defined work in a timely and professional manner, support on-going process improvement and organizational/department changes, identify self and department in all phone interactions, accept additional related tasks and maintain a clean and orderly work area.

Work Schedule

Monday – Friday Day shift with occasional Saturdays

We are a group of healthcare workers who are passionate about helping people improve their health. With a team of 24 clinicians, we see approximately 200-250 patients each day. Our clinicians consider our clinical support staff as colleagues and really partner with nursing staff to take great care of our patients. Through good collaboration with all members of the team, we have continued to achieve high patient experience ratings and maintain high quality patient measures. Our team is friendly, engaged, and we love to have fun! We even have fun events throughout the year such as holiday parties, summer picnics, and more!

Required Qualifications

• 6 months related experience
• Accurate computer/keyboarding skills required.
• Demonstrates knowledge of age-related growth and development principles necessary to provide appropriate service and assure safety of patients.
• Must be proficient in the operation of the following types of equipment: telephone and headsets, PC, printer, photo copier and fax machine.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Human relations sensitivity and customer service skills
• Listening and telephone etiquette skills
• Medical terminology knowledge desirable
• Comfort in asking patients for copays and race collection.
• Ability to promote and maintain good patient relations and patient confidentiality.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and structured environment.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.

Benefits

Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, onsite clinic and much more!