Patient Access Coordinator Gastroenterology

Baptist Health; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

401k Plan with Match

Certification/Education Reimbursement

University partnerships for continuing

Term and LTC insurance

PTO on day of hire

PTO Sell Back Program

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Patient Access Coordinator in Kentucky to manage patient appointments, listener reminders, and registration. You will verify demographics and insurance, collect payments, and relay messages to providers, while supporting clerical tasks in a busy gastroenterology office.

The role emphasizes high school education, computer skills, and prior medical office experience, with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for continuing education.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Computer skills required; medical terminology preferred.

Responsibilities

• Schedule patient appointments and reminder calls.
• Greet, register and check in/out patients.
• Verify demographic/insurance information and enter into system.
• Collect co-pays and payments; prepare daily deposit and reconciliation report.
• Relay messages to and from providers and log them accurately.
• Provide clerical/secretarial support (typing, mail, fax, supplies).

Skills

Computer skills

Medical terminology

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary Job Description

BHMG Gastroenterology Job Summary

The Patient Access Coordinator makes patient appointments and reminder calls. Greets and registers and checks in or out all patients. Verifies demographic and insurance coverage information and enters into appropriate system/patient record. Collects co-pays and other payments and prepares daily deposit & reconciliation report. Receives and accurately and timely relays all phone messages to and from providers and logs them appropriately. Also provides clerical/secretarial support to the office as needed by typing correspondence and reports, sorting and delivering mail, processing incoming and outgoing faxes and ordering and maintaining supplies.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensures/Certifications/Registrations Required

A. High school diploma or equivalent. B. Computer skills required. C. Medical terminology skills preferred. D. Prior medical office experience preferred.

Benefits include

• Competitive Benefits Package
• 401k Plan with Match
• Certification/Education Reimbursement
• University partnerships for continuing education
• Term and LTC insurance
• 40 hours of PTO on day of hire
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund for employees in need of emergency financial support

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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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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