Nursing Service Clerk

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.; Kentucky; Vor Ort; USD 21.000 - 34.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) seeks a Nursing Service Clerk to handle admissions, records, and clerical duties on-site in Kentucky. The role includes preparing patient identification, transcribing orders, and maintaining the patient register and procedures scheduling.

Ideal candidates will have a High School Diploma or GED, familiarity with medical terminology, and experience with Word/Excel and healthcare billing.

Qualifikationen

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Experience with medical billing preferred.

Aufgaben

• Receives newly admitted patients and prepares identification tags and assembles patients' records.
• Notifies physician of new admissions and consultations.
• Maintains nursing station in a clean safe and orderly manner.
• Types and prepares reports as directed.

Kenntnisse

Billing knowledge

Medical terminology

ICD9 / CPT codes

UB92 / HCFA

Typing 30 wpm

Computer literacy

Word Processing

Office equipment operation

Ausbildung

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Nursing Service Clerk is responsible for performing general clerical duties by preparing, compiling, and maintaining records.

Overview

The Nursing Service Clerk is responsible for performing general clerical duties by preparing, compiling, and maintaining records.

Responsibilities

• Receives newly admitted patients and prepares identification tags and assembles patients' records.
• Notifies physician of new admissions and consultations.
• Assists in keeping vital summary sheet up to date by recording temperature, pulse, respiration’s, weight, diet, activity, etc.
• Transcribes orders from physicians' order sheet to patients' chart, prepares cards, tickets, etc.
• Prepares requests and schedules procedures.
• Answers patient call system and telephone; receives and delivers messages for supplies, patients, physicians, etc.
• Checks patients' chart for completeness at time of discharge. Disassembles and prepares for return to Medical Records.
• Files completed request slips when returned from Laboratory, Radiology, etc.
• Prepares requisitions to maintain established inventories of clerical supplies.
• Maintains nursing station in a clean safe and orderly manner.
• Types and prepares reports as directed.
• Maintains patient register and schedules procedures to be performed by other services.
• Greets, assists, and directs visitors in a courteous manner.
• Operates various office equipment.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent.

Experience

• Preferably one year's billing experience and experience in Microsoft Word & Excel.
• Health care billing experience preferred.
• Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training as required to attain proficiency of performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Must have knowledge of medical terminology, ICD9, and CPT codes as pertains to billing.
• Must be familiar with UB92 and HCFA completion.
• Must be computer literate in Word and Excel.
• Ability to operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and fax machine.
• Ability to type a minimum of 30 words per minute accurately.

Physical Requirements

• Must possess physical abilities to endure prolonged sitting, moderate walking and standing, bending, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling.
• Must be capable of exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.