Patient Access & Registration Specialist

CHRISTUS Health; Lake Charles (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

CHRISTUS Health is seeking a Patient Access Representative to facilitate welcoming access, register patients, verify insurance, and collect estimated patient portions. This role emphasizes accurate data entry, regulatory compliance, and professional patient interaction in a hospital setting.

The position involves coordinating with care teams, processing authorizations, and supporting departmental targets. It requires 3 days of 12-hour shifts and full-time availability at the Lake Charles

Qualifications

• Accurate data entry for scheduling and registration details.
• Verify insurance eligibility and obtain necessary authorizations.
• Calculate and collect patient portion based on benefits and prior balances.

Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Accurately inputs all required data elements for scheduling and registration, including patient demographic, financial information, guarantor information, and relevant notes associated with the encounter.
• Verifies insurance eligibility and obtains necessary authorizations for services rendered.
• Calculates and collects the estimated patient portion based on benefits and contract reimbursement as well as prior balances.
• Performs financial assessment for appropriate program assistance.
• Communicates the purpose of and obtains patient/legal guardian signatures on all necessary hospital documents.
• Represents the Patient Access department in a professional, courteous manner at ALL times.
• Required to assist the hospital in the event of an internal or external disaster.
• Supports the flexible needs of the department to accommodate patient volume in all areas of the hospital. This may require assignment to another area of the department, and shift change.
• Supports the department in achieving established performance targets.
• Completes required training as needed and as mandated.
• Maintains the team discipline of following all elements of established standard processes
• Works with HPWT (High Performance Work Teams) to maintain an efficient, clean, and orderly workplace using 5S principles and practices once implemented in the work unit.
• Coordinates, communicates, and assists in monitoring work flow and work tasks necessary to manage fluctuating volumes.
• Provides feedback to the team to help identify educational needs, and mediation needs by reporting IPOs (issues, problems, and opportunities).
• Demonstrates competence to perform assigned responsibilities is a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of the members served by the department.
• Appropriately adapts assigned assessment, treatment, and/or service methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific and other developmental needs of each member served.
• Takes personal responsibility to ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standards as promulgated by state and federal agencies, the hospital, and other regulatory entities.
• Performs all duties in a manner that protects the confidentiality of patients and does not solicit or disclose any confidential information unless it is necessary in the performance of assigned job duties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Good communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

CHRISTUS Health is seeking a Patient Access Representative to facilitate welcoming access, register patients, verify insurance, and collect estimated patient portions. This role emphasizes accurate data entry, regulatory compliance, and professional patient interaction in a hospital setting.

The position involves coordinating with care teams, processing authorizations, and supporting departmental targets. It requires 3 days of 12-hour shifts and full-time availability at the Lake Charles