Patient Access Intake Specialist

UNC REX Healthcare; Lenoir (NC); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

UNC Rex Healthcare in Lenoir, NC seeks an experienced Patient Access Clerk to ensure accurate ADT information, scheduling, and upfront collections. This per diem role requires attention to detail and the ability to work onsite, with standard hours around 8 per week and a focus on timely, accurate processing.

The position supports patient access operations, including insurance verification, appointment scheduling, and effective communication with providers, ensuring compliance and efficiency in a

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED is required.
• At least 2 years of customer service or clerical experience is required.
• Experience in patient registration or healthcare billing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Verify and update key ADT information (insurance verification, demographics) to ensure patient safety and billing accuracy.
• Schedule new and follow-up patient appointments and communicate cancellations to providers as needed.
• Complete and document governmental, regulatory, financial and contractual forms per procedure and ensure proper scanned storage.
• Use price estimation tool to provide the most accurate estimates to patients during registration.
• Meet upfront collection targets, including deposits, estimated amounts due, co-pays, and/or prior balances.
• Participate in departmental QA by using system work queues to reduce errors and correct issues.

Skills

Customer service

Clerical skills

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

Summary

This role is responsible in ensuring that patient access processing is performed in accordance with procedure and documented in a timely and accurate manner in ADT and other clinical information systems. Meets departmental/organizational outcome targets for process accuracy and timeliness.

Responsibilities

• Ensures and verifies key ADT information (insurance verification, patient and guarantor demographics, etc.) is current and accurate to ensure patient safety, charging, coding, insurance processing, and billing accuracy.
• Schedules all new and follow-up patient appointments as required. Attempt to reschedule cancellations whenever possible. Communicates cancellations to provider as necessary.
• Completes and documents all governmental, regulatory, financial, and contractual forms in accordance to procedure. Ensures document is scanned/saved to correct location and is legible.
• Utilizes price estimation tool, when applicable, as part of the registration process to provide the most accurate estimate to patients
• Meets departmental target for up front collections to include deposits, estimated amounts due, co-pays, and/or prior balances.
• Actively participates in departmental QA by utilizing system work queues, making a personal effort to reduce individual errors, and making corrections. Utilizes system work queues as a daily part of the registration process to minimize errors.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED

Professional Experience Requirements

• Require two (2) years of customer service and/or clerical experience

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Patient Access Triangle West

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours Per Week: 8.00

Salary Range:$17.40 - $25.01 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Lenoir

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
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