Patient Support Specialist (Temporary, Full Time)

Sprinter Health; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Sprinter Health is hiring a Patient Support Specialist I to be a first voice for patients nationwide. You will field questions, coordinate scheduling, and support clinical teams while ensuring confidentiality and high-quality home-based care.

This temporary role runs through December 31, 2026 and requires strong organization and communication skills. You will collaborate with Field Support and Sprinters, handle overflow questions, and help streamline processes across departments in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 3+ years of patient or patient service experience; healthcare background required.
• Preferred: experience working with Zendesk.
• Proficiency in using EHR systems and other healthcare software.
• Experience coordinating with national labs such as Quest or Labcorp, including requisition review, issue investigation, and result tracking.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail for appointment documentation and record-keeping.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to liaise between clinical and administrative teams.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Commitment to maintaining patient confidentiality and delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Field and resolve overnight questions and support requests from patients and partners.
• Respond to and triage inbound patient and partner questions via phone, email and SMS in a timely manner and per benchmarks.
• Escalate questions and concerns to other teams for additional support as needed.
• Assist Field Support and Sprinters with real-time scheduling changes.
• Support clerical work before and after appointments to keep Sprinters focused on delivering high-quality care at home.
• Take on additional responsibilities and projects to enhance processes and enable cross-training across departments.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Patient service

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Adaptability

Confidentiality

Tools

Zendesk

EHR systems

Job description

Patient Support Specialist I

About Us

At Sprinter Health, we're focused on dramatically expanding access to healthcare by reimagining the patient experience—delivered at home and powered by technology for scale.

Sprinter Health is building the clinical and technological infrastructure to realize a future of healthcare untethered. We have a rapidly growing team of visionary leaders who are passionate about increasing access to care, lowering healthcare costs, and improving outcomes for patients.

We’re backed by prominent VC’s, advised by a medical board of industry leaders, and led by former executives, physicians, and engineers from Google, Facebook, Labcorp, and Disney.

About The Role

We are rapidly expanding our operations as we build new partnerships across the healthcare spectrum. We are looking for an experienced, patient-centric individual to grow our patient support team. As a Patient Support Specialist, you are often the first voices of Sprinter Health. We are looking for someone that can use their voice to deliver flawless and timely support to our patients across the nation.

This is a temporary position through December 31, 2026.

Schedule: Saturday - Wednesday

A Day in the Life of a Sprinter Patient Support Specialist

• Your day will begin by fielding and resolving overnight questions and support requests from our patients and partners
• Throughout the day you will respond to and triage inbound patient and partner questions via phone, email and SMS in a timely manner and in adherence of organizational benchmarks
• As different patient situations arise, you will escalat questions and concerns to other teams for additional support

• This position will assist Field Support and Sprinters with real-time scheduling changes
• This position will also support clerical work that may be required prior to and after appointments to ensure our Sprinters can focus on delivering high quality care in the home
• Additional responsibilities and/or projects as designated, encompassing enhancements to processes and the facilitation of cross-training across various departments.

Skills and Requirements

• - At least 3+ years of relevant experience in patient or patient service, healthcare required
• - Preferred: experience working with Zendesk
• - Proficiency in using electronic health record (EHR) systems and other healthcare software
• - Experience coordinating with national labs such as Quest or Labcorp. This can include but not limited to requisition review, issue investigation, result tracking)
• - Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail to ensure accuracy in appointment documentation and record-keeping
• - Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively liaise between clinical and administrative teams
• - Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• - Commitment to maintaining patient confidentiality and delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

About You

• - Flexibility, humility, and a sense of humor are your key personality traits
• - You excel at last minute problem solving and out of the box thinking
• - You are highly organized and love to follow a process
• - You over communicate both in writing and in words
• - You know how to prioritize tasks and escalat situations when necessary
• - You have experience working in an on-demand service or healthcare environment
• - You thrive in a fast paced, high pressure environment
• - You have a calm and understanding demeanor and the ability to empathize with patients' frustrations and needs

Sprinter Health is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all applicants from every background and life experience to apply.