Patient Access Liaison II - Access Center - Full Time 8 Hour Days (Non-Exempt) (Union)

University of Southern California; United States; Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Southern Californiais seeking a Patient Access Liaison II to serve as the primary contact for access to USC academic medical centers and the USC Health Sciences Campus. The role involves screening and directing calls, scheduling initial and follow-up appointments, registering patients, and verifying insurance to advise patients of estimated financial responsibility.

Data entry and data integrity are key responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum two years of experience in a call center, customer service and/or healthcare setting.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to multi-task.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance and various health insurance types preferred.

Responsibilities

• Answers, screens and directs incoming and outgoing calls and messages using the call management system.
• Schedules and confirms appointments using the scheduling system and verifies insurance coverage.
• Registers patients and documents data with accuracy; reconciles data as needed.
• Coordinates with medical staff to secure timely appointments and communicates with patients.
• Ensures HIPAA compliance in messaging and data handling.
• Performs data entry and maintains patient appointment records.
• Escalates issues per department guidelines and supports remote work as required.

Skills

Call center experience

Interpersonal skills

Multitasking

Verbal and written communication

HIPAA compliance knowledge

Medical terminology knowledge

Computer literacy with practice mgmt."

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associates’ or Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, business or operations

Job description

Serves as primary point of contact for access to USC academic medical centers and USC Health Sciences Campus. Answers, screens and directs incoming and outgoing telephone calls, electronic messages and other web-based communications using a call management system. Responds to basic inquires and refers other inquires to appropriate medical personnel. Contacts and distributes messages to medical personnel using a variety of electronic methods including text, voice and email systems. The Patient Access Liaison II will also be responsible to schedule and confirm initial and follow-up medical appointments, registers patients, including verifying insurance coverage to advise patient of any estimated financial responsibility. The Patient Access Liaison II will also perform data entry, ensure data integrity, and reconcile as needed.

Departmental Specific Summary

Essential Duties

• 1. Demonstrates competency in the quality of work and knowledge of a Patient Access Representative.
• 2. Strives for first call resolution and demonstrates high level of customer service.
• 3. Maintains warm, courteous and professional behavior in accordance with the USC/Keck customer service standards while interacting with contacts, both internal and external.
• 4. Maintains consistent accuracy in all tasks associated with job role and tasks and responsibilities daily.
• 5. Exhibits collegial and professional demeanor in all interactions.
• 6. Contributes effectively as a productive team member to the Patient Access Center and USC/Keck.
• 7. Follows USC/Keck Communications standard and policy.
• 8. . Accepts alternate assignments to any area within the organization as assigned by Management.
• 9. Expected to work from home as/when organizationally deployed, following the departmentally established guidelines and expectations for remote work.
• 10. Other duties as assigned.
• 11. May page physicians as dictated by internal procedures, correctly, professionally and in a timely manner.
• 12. May perform follow up checks with all open pages while on shift and before leaving shift
• 13. Demonstrates proficiency in ensuring that all information housed within the Call Management system and Qgenda is sent for updates to management and readily accessed when needed.
• 14. Answers, screens and directs incoming and outgoing telephone calls, electronic messages, omnichannel contacts and other web-based communications using the organizational communications management system. Transfers telephone calls to the appropriate department or medical personnel.
• 15. Processes messages following departmental procedure and ensuring compliance with HIPAA regulations.
• 16. Utilizes organizationally defined systems to perform patient communication.
• 16. Performs scheduling functions, to include scheduling, rescheduling cancelations and confirmations of appointments using organizational scheduling system.
• 17. Creates and maintains medical data and reconciles to patient appointment records.
• 18. Coordinates care with patient coordinators, nurses and physicians to secure appointments for patients and referring physicians.
• 19. Performs data entry and maintains data bases for bumps and cancellations.
• 20. Verifies insurance coverage using organizationally defined process. May determine if patient's insurance is contracted with USC and advise patient of any estimated financial responsibility.
• 21. Using USC/Keck defined guidelines, and at their discretion, carries out Service Recovery activity, and/or escalates to any Level 3/Lead or Supervisor within the Patient Access Center.

Required Qualifications:

• Req High school or equivalent
• Req 2 years Minimum two (2) years of experience working in a call center, customer service and/or healthcare department/ environment (or combination of that equals two or more years)
• Req Demonstrated interpersonal skills.
• Req Ability to multi-task.
• Req Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Pref Knowledge of HIPPA compliance and various health insurance types preferred.
• Pref Knowledge of medical terminology strongly preferred.
• Pref Demonstrated knowledge of high-level computer literacy with practice management scheduling systems preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pref Associate's degree Associates' or Bachelors' degree in healthcare, business or operations field strongly preferred.
• Pref Specialized/technical training Vocational certificates in healthcare preferred: appoint scheduling, registration, insurance verification, medical assistant.
• Pref Bilingual: Spanish, Chinese and other languages preferred.
• Pref Knowledge of HIPPA compliance and various health insurance types preferred.Pref Knowledge of medical terminology strongly preferred.
• Pref Demonstrated knowledge of high-level computer literacy with practice management scheduling systems preferred.

Required Licenses/Certifications:

• Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA