Hours: M - F / 7:30a - 4:30p - this position floats between Matthews and Ballantyne
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Patient Services Representative Supervisor is responsible for creating and maintaining a positive, welcoming environment for all patients, families, and visitors while performing the requested duties. These duties will include interviewing patients and/or families to obtain all demographic and financial information, scheduling and confirming patient appointments, verifying patient insurance, explaining financial responsibility to patient or patient representative, and collecting same-day payments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Greets patients, families, and visitors in a courteous and helpful manner
- Ensures accuracy of patient data entered in the RIS
- Schedules screening schedule ahead mammograms and diagnostic exams
- Confirms all tests have required orders
- Communicates to patient or patient representative any financial responsibility
- Calmly handles patient experience and customer service issues, and effectively resolves escalating situations
- Acts as primary point of escalation for all front-end challenges and escalates particularly complex issues to Center Manager
- Provides input and support for new initiatives and process implementation
- Acts as on-site leadership in absence of center manager, helping to manage center activities
- Manages the training and onboarding of new team members
- Leads regular staff meetings and associate one-on-ones
- Monitors and approves timecards
- Initiates and participates in staff performance evaluations and on-going development of team members including performance improvement plans, disciplinary actions and/or terminations when necessary
- Performs audits on cash payments and prepares bank deposit slips and deposit bags
- Delegates and ensures side duties are completed in a timely and efficient manner, i.e., worklists, schedule prep, etc.
- Handles callouts
Minimum Qualifications:
Education/Licensing/Certification:
- High school diploma required
- Associate’s degree preferred
Experience (years and type):
- 2+ years’ customer service experience required
- Previous supervisor experience preferred
Knowledge and Skills:
- Familiarity with outpatient clinical setting and patient registration workflows
- Familiarity with medical terminology
- Excellent customer service, both internal and external
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Computer literate