Patient Access Coordinator Float

Baptist Health; Bardstown (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

Retirement with Company Match

Generous Paid Time Off (Including M,)”

Short/Long Term Disability and Life

Job summary

Baptist Health in Bardstown, KY is seeking a Patient Access Coordinator to perform front-office duties, verify demographics and insurance, register patients, determine out-of-pocket costs, collect payments, and schedule appointments to ensure smooth patient flow.

The role emphasizes customer service, clerical accuracy, and fiduciary responsibility; a high school diploma or equivalent and reliable transportation are required; computer skills are essential.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Computer skills required.
• Must have own reliable, independent transportation.
• Clerical experience in the medical office setting preferred.
• Other education preferred.

Responsibilities

• Greet patients and visitors.
• Verify patients' demographic and insurance information.
• Register patients and obtain necessary signatures.
• Determine patients' out-of-pocket expense, collect and document payments and/or financial counseling as appropriate.
• Schedule appointments; ensure patient flow; switchboard and medical records management.

Skills

Customer service

Clerical skills

Medical office experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Computer skills

Job description

Job Summary

Summary Job Description: Patient Access describes a multi-disciplinary function that is carried out at the point of service areas of the medical office. Patient Access Coordinators perform front office duties under the general direction of the Clinical/Practice Manager or designee. These duties include, but are not limited to, greeting patients and visitors; verifying patients' demographic and insurance information; registering patients; obtaining necessary signatures; determining patients' out-of-pocket expense, collecting and documenting patient payments and/or financial counseling as appropriate; scheduling appointments; ensuring patient flow; switchboard; and medical records management. Customer service, clerical skills, fiduciary responsibility, and accuracy are extremely important in this role. High school diploma or equivalent required. Computer skills required. Must have own reliable, independent transportation Clerical experience in the medical office setting preferred. Other education preferred.

Benefits

• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Retirement with Company Match
• Generous Paid Time Off (Including Maternity/Paternity Leave)
• Short/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance Tuition Reimbursement

Company Overview

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

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NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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