Supervisor Patient Access

Karmanos Cancer Institute; Southfield (MI); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care seeks a Manager/Director of Patient Access to plan, direct, evaluate, and organize the staff and functions of the Patient Access Department. This role ensures accurate registration, admission, transfer, and discharge processes and oversees training and performance initiatives.

The position emphasizes staff development, policy implementation, payroll data handling, and alignment with management objectives; it is a full-time onsite role within McLaren’s Michigan facilities,

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in business management, accounting or related field.
• Two years’ experience in Patient Access or a related department.
• One-year experience in a leadership role leading or assisting in all phases of effective supervision (ie. Recruitment, performance management, training)
• Five years in Patient Access or related department; one-year leadership experience in supervision.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily duties of employees in registration, admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
• Review department work for customer satisfaction and third-party billing accuracy; document productivity and quality measures.

Skills

Staff supervision

Training

Payroll processing

Policy design

Patient access

Education

Associates Degree in business management, accounting or related field

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Under the direction of the Manager/Director of Patient Access; plans, directs, evaluates, controls, and organizes the staff and functions of the Patient Access Department.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the supervision of daily duties of employees engaged in activities related to registration, admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
• Responsible for reviewing all work performed by the department for customer satisfaction and third-party billing accuracy.Documents performance measures for productivity and quality and provides feedback and corrective action as needed.Terminates employees as appropriate.
• Accountable for the training of new staff and evaluating existing staff’s need for additional training.If necessary, must provide additional training of existing staff as it relates to any aspect of admitting or registration process.
• Directly responsible for the training and collection of copays and deductibles at the point of patient access.
• Responsible for understanding, implementing and monitoring management’s objectives as it relates to the patient access department.Designs, implements and monitors policies and procedures for admitting and registration functions in relation to management’s objectives.
• Creates and monitors employee schedule and timesheets and enters information for payroll.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Associates Degree in business management, accounting or related field

Two years’ experience in Patient Access or a related department.

• One-year experience in a leadership role leading or assisting in all phases of effective supervision (ie. Recruitment, performance management, training)

OR

• Five years in Patient Access or related department
• One-year experience in a leadership role leading or assisting in all phases of effective supervision (ie. Recruitment, performance management, training)

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26010298
• Daily Work Times: 8:00am-4:30pm
• On Call: Yes

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.