Patient Registration Rep

St.-Mary-Medical-Cente; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA seeks a Patient Registration Representative to ensure a welcoming patient experience at registration. You will collect demographics, verify insurance, and explain hospital policies and patient rights to families.

You will apply approved procedures for registration across departments, handle insurance verification, determine financial responsibility, and assist with billing through compliant cash handling.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Experience in hospital patient registration or related revenue cycle roles preferred.
• Excellent customer service and attention to detail.
• Ability to verify insurance and explain policies to families.

Responsibilities

• Register patients and collect accurate demographics in the ADT system.
• Verify insurance benefits using verification tools or by contacting payers.
• Explain hospital policies and patient rights; discuss financial responsibility.
• Process payments per PCI-DSS guidelines and cash handling procedures.
• Coordinate with physicians and departments to update registration requirements.

Skills

Customer service

Data entry

Insurance verification

PCI-DSS compliance

Healthcare terminology

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

ADT system

Electronic verification systems

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Patient Registration Representative, you will ensure a positive patient experience during registration, employing excellent customer service.
Every day you will identify patients, collect accurate demographics, verify insurance, determine/collect financial liability, and explain hospital policies and patient rights to families.

• Registration: Maintains up-to-date knowledge of specific registration requirements for all areas, including but not limited to: Main Admitting, OP Registration, ED Registration, Maternity, and Rehabilitation units. Ensures complete, accurate and timely entry of demographic information into the ADT system at the time of registration.
• Verification, Authorization, and Compliance: Follows approved scripting, verifies insurance benefits on all patients registered daily by using electronic verification systems or by contacting payers directly to determine the level of insurance coverage.
• Financial Processing and Assistance: Understands and follows the 'Delay/Defer' procedure and escalates accounts that do not meet financial clearance standards to Patient Registration leadership immediately. Explains the Payment and Billing Assistance Program to all patients regardless of financial concerns or limitations. Refers patients to Patient Registration Specialist as appropriate.
• Understands and follows the Cashier policy and procedures. Properly handles credit card transactions in accordance with PCI-DSS standards and guidelines.
• If required by facility, inventories and stores patient's valuables following proper procedure.
• Works with physician offices and clinical areas to collect and share patient information and to help update these stakeholders on changes in Patient Registration requirements, processes or programs.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Graduate or GED
• Minimum 1 year of experience working in a hospital Patient Registration department, physician office setting, healthcare insurance company, revenue cycle vendor, and/or other revenue cycle related roles

Preferred

• 2 years experience working in a hospital Patient Registration department, physician office setting, healthcare insurance company, revenue cycle vendor, and/or other revenue cycle related roles or
• Applicable education and/or training can be used to balance a lack of experience.

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1923, Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center is a 389-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Long Beach, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, and orthopedics. Additionally, St. Mary Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and received a Healthgrades 5-Star Award for Heart Failure in 2026.

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