Patient Financial Associate 1, ED Patient Access, $1000 Bonus, FT, 07A-7:30P

Baptist Health; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health resources

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness program

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Patient Access team member to support registration, financial screening and patient throughput in a fast-paced healthcare setting.

Responsibilities include accurate verification, ensuring compliance, and pursuing collection goals while collaborating with clinical staff to deliver compassionate service to patients and families.

Qualifications

• Associates degree preferred and relevant coursework beneficial.
• Complete and pass the Patient Access training course.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced public health/revenue cycle setting with strong payment collection experience.

Responsibilities

• Support revenue cycle, compliance, and patient experience by completing registration, financial screening, verification, and patient throughput tasks.
• Meet individual collection goals and maintain relationships with clinicians to ensure a positive patient experience.
• Position is essential staff and may require weekends, holidays, and deployment for disaster events.
• Demonstrate service excellence and knowledge of healthcare terminology and privacy guidelines.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Multitasking

Detail oriented

Team player

Bilingual

Education

Associates Degree preferred

High School Diploma

Tools

EMR systems

Microsoft Office

Revenue Cycle software

Job description

Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 29,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 26 years, we've been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 63 high-performing honors.

What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients' shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels out commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because when it comes to caring for people, we're all in.

Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support
• Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits
• A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs
• Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement
• And so much more

Description

Applies only to Emergency Department and BOS Digital Registration. Responsible for completing varied duties to support the revenue cycle, compliance, and patient experience by accurately and efficiently completing tasks in areas of registration, financial screening, verification, and patient throughput. This incumbent will be responsible for meeting individual collection goals. Maintains a close working relationship with all members of the clinical team to ensure a seamless and positive experience for both patients and caregivers. This incumbent is considered essential staff and must be able to work as needed on weekends, holidays, and during disastrous events. This position may require deployment of legal, ethical and compliance related documents that must be presented and thoroughly explained to the patient at the time of registration. Practices the Baptist Health philosophy of service excellence in providing professional, compassionate and friendly service to patients of all ages, families, employees, physicians and community members. Estimated pay range for this position is $17.62 - $22.38 / hour depending on experience.

Qualifications

Degrees: High School,Cert,GED,Trn,Exper.

Additional Qualifications

• Associates Degree preferred.
• Complete and pass the Patient Access training course.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced public health setting or Revenue Cycle setting with demonstrated experience in payment collection, such as billing, sales, and collection/Customer Service.
• In lieu of degree and/or experience, a highly motivated individual that has the ability to satisfactorily demonstrate and/or role play required skills in a professional manner with a clear and convincing ability to excel in the role.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.
• Detail oriented, organized, team player, compassionate, excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and have an agile mindset.
• Desired: Knowledge of healthcare regulatory guidelines to include, but not limited to, HIPAA, AHCA, EMTALA, etc.
• Understanding of insurance contracts, collections, authorizations and pre-certifications, Microsoft Office products, and EMR applications, etc.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Bilingual English, Spanish/Creole preferred.

Minimum Required Experience: Less than 1 year

EOE, including disability/vets