Patient Reg Team Lead

OhioHealth; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 81,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

OhioHealth is seeking a Team Lead for Patient Access in a remote work-from-home setup. This full-time role involves assisting patients with registration and financial arrangements, supervising staff, and ensuring excellent service. Candidates must have strong customer service skills, knowledge of health insurance, and familiarity with medical terminology.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills are required.
• Familiarity with medical terminology is important.
• 1-2 years of related experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with financial arrangements before, during, and after admission.
• Supervise Patient Registrars and train new employees.
• Interview incoming patients and ensure accurate registration information.

Skills

Customer service skills

Knowledge of health insurance

Familiarity with medical terminology

Education

High School or GED

Job description

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Job Description Summary

Full time Team Lead Position for Patient Access - Remote Registration Work From Home.

3p-11:30p- rotating weekends.

Assist patients/families with financial arrangements for hospital charges prior to admission, in-house, and at discharge; identifies those persons who may be in need of financial assistance or eligible for assistance from outside agencies. Answers questions and handles problems to resolve concerns of patients, such as incorrect insurance information or payment posting errors. Follow-up with correspondence or calls to patients. Assists patients with cost information. Responsible for training new staff. Serves as lead to lower level Patient Registration Reps for questions and problems. May serve as lead to lower level office and registration staff.

Responsibilities And Duties

15%

Assists in supervising Patient Registrars and Scheduling/Bed Management Coordinators; assists in training new employees, performs training sessions for each new employee, attends workshops and seminars to maintain knowledge of current registration trends.

20%

Assists in distribution of work among employees to ensure patients are registered efficiently and promptly; assists in processing employee's pay records, schedules vacations, and schedules to cover for those on vacation or out due to illness.

15%

Assists in supervision and responsibility for completion of all interviewing and clerical tasks required to obtain registration information and to process patient registrations; mails patient questionnaire and updates each patient reservation file maintaining accurate patient records prior to patient arrival to ensure efficient registration of patients at time of admission; pre-registers patient by phone and from computer database, prints pre-registration packets, prepares charts and arm bands. Contacts patient, guarantor/third party Payor. Confirms medical coverage benefits and insurance information.

15%

Interviews incoming patients and records information. Assists in training of patient flow to determine number of staff needed to address patient registration needs; interviews patient to obtain identifying information and applies data in computer database.

15%

Performs duties of Bed Scheduler. Takes reservations by phone for patients from physicians; coordinates cancellations and rescheduling with Bed Control; takes calls from various areas of the hospital regarding admission or transfer; prepares new armbands for patients; may perform duties of bed scheduler in assigning beds, making transfers, recording releases, births and deaths and completing bed requests. May work in multiple work areas performing registration related duties.

15%

Assists in supervision of decentralized Registration sites ADS/OPS, Endoscopy, others as developed d ; responsible for opening ADS/OPS registration center each weekday morning and preparing hospitality functions; assists in supervision of processing paper registrations and maintaining communication channels with departments. Assists in supervision of managing recurring department accounts.

5%

Performs other related Registration department functions. Assists in completion of statistics reports for department. Assists in ordering department supplies and maintaining control of supplies. Assists with all equipment maintenance and repair, and initiating steps to correct computer software problems. Works system reports and notifies staff of error.

Minimum Qualifications

High School or GED (Required)

Additional Job Description

Excellent customer service skills. Knowledge of worker s compensation and health insurance. Familiarity with medical terminology. 1-2 yrs. related Experience .

Work Shift

Evening

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Department

Corporate Registration

Join us!

• if your passion is to work in a caring environment
• if you believe that learning is a life-long process
• if you strive for excellence and want to be among the best in the healthcare industry
  
  

Equal Employment Opportunity

OhioHealth is an equal opportunity employer and fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. OhioHealth does not discriminate against associates or applicants because of race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, military status, pregnancy, disability, marital status, familial status, or other characteristics protected by law. Equal employment is extended to all person in all aspects of the associate-employer relationship including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, discipline, reduction in staff, termination, assignment of benefits, and any other term or condition of employment

Remote Work Disclaimer

Positions marked as remote are only eligible for work from Ohio.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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