Patient Access & Scheduling Specialist

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

Job summary

UNC Health Care is seeking a patient access professional to ensure accurate ADT and registration processing. You will verify insurance, demographics, and generate timely documentation to support billing and patient safety.

This full-time, on-site role in Smithfield NC offers a 40-hour work week with 7:30am-4:00pm shifts, and an emphasis on up-front collections, scheduling, and QA to minimize errors across the registration workflow.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement.
• Two years of customer service and/or clerical experience

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.

Skills

Customer service

Clerical skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Price estimation tool

Job description

UNC Health Care is seeking a patient access professional to ensure accurate ADT and registration processing. You will verify insurance, demographics, and generate timely documentation to support billing and patient safety.

This full-time, on-site role in Smithfield NC offers a 40-hour work week with 7:30am-4:00pm shifts, and an emphasis on up-front collections, scheduling, and QA to minimize errors across the registration workflow.