Patient Access Intake Specialist

UNC Health; Timberlyne (NC); On-site; USD 26,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Chapel Hill, NC is seeking a patient access specialist to ensure accurate registration, insurance verification, and scheduling in ADT and clinical systems. You will process forms promptly and meet front-end collection targets, with attention to data accuracy and patient safety.

This full-time, Monday–Friday, 8:30am–5:00pm role offers 40 hours per week and is onsite in US:NC:Chapel Hill. High school diploma and 2 years of customer service or clerical experience required.

Qualifications

• Two years of customer service and/or clerical experience.
• High school diploma or GED required; higher degree not stated.
• Experience in healthcare or registration processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ADT and clinical systems have accurate patient registration data.
• Verify insurance, demographics, and guarantor information for patient safety and billing accuracy.
• Schedule all new and follow-up appointments; communicate cancellations to providers.
• Document and scan all required forms clearly and correctly.
• Use price estimation tools to provide accurate patient estimates during registration.
• Contribute to front-end collections targets including deposits and co-pays.

Skills

Customer service

Clerical work

Data entry

Insurance verification

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

*This position is Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm.

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.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

*This position is Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements

• * High school diploma or GED required; higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement.

Professional Experience Requirements

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

Job Details

• Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
• Entity: Shared Services
• Organization Unit: PFE Med Center Arrival Services
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
• Salary Range:$19.12 - $27.17 per hour (Hiring Range)
• Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Day Job
• Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
• 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.

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