Patient Access Coordinator OBGYN

Baptist Health; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

401k Plan with Match

Education Reimbursement

University partnerships for continuing

Paid PTO on hire date

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

PTO Donation

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Patient Access Coordinator for its OBGYN department. This role handles patient appointments, greeting and registering patients, and checking them in or out. You will verify demographics and insurance, collect payments, and prepare daily deposits.

You will relay messages to providers and support clerical tasks, including correspondence, mail, and supplies management. Previous medical office experience and basic computer skills are preferred, with medical terminology

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Computer skills required.
• Medical terminology skills preferred.
• Prior medical office experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Make patient appointments and reminder calls.
• Greet, register, and check in or out patients.
• Verify demographics and insurance coverage in the record system.
• Collect co-pays and other payments and prepare deposits and reconciliations.
• Relay messages to and from providers and log them accurately.
• Provide clerical/secretarial support, type correspondence, sort and deliver mail, process faxes, and maintain supplies.

Skills

Computer skills

Medical terminology

Prior medical office experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary Job Description: BHMG OBGYN 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
• Office Administration, Reception, Clerical, Administrative, Secretary

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. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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.