Team Lead PAS (Columbia County) ED - Nights

Wellstar Health System; Magnolia (AR); On-site; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellstar Health System is seeking a Registration Specialist to support daily operations and guide staff. The role includes collecting patient liability, verifying demographics and insurance, and routing uninsured patients to financial counseling.

You will help ensure accurate deposits and maintain compliance with EMTALA and related policies. Requirements include a high school diploma or GED and at least 2 years in healthcare registration or patient-facing customer service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years registration or face-to-face customer service in a healthcare setting.
• Preferred 3 years registration or face-to-face customer service in healthcare.
• All certifications required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

Responsibilities

• Assist management with daily operations and staff mentoring.
• Verify patient demographics and insurance information; obtain and document eligibility.
• Balance liability collections and reconcile deposits; ensure accurate daily reconciliations.
• Schedule follow-up appointments and coordinate with provider availability; obtain authorizations as needed.
• Ensure EMTALA compliance and facilitate financial counseling for patients.

Skills

Customer Service

Basic Computer

MS Office

Medical Terminology

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what’s possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people’s lives.

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Schedule: 5PM-5:30AM Days with Rotating Weekends

Job Summary:

To assist management with daily operations, in addition to Registration Specialist duties. Duties will include guidance
and mentoring of new/existing staff with daily work, monitoring of quality assurance and productivity reports, daily
deposits and orientation of new employees. Must adhere to all functions of Registration Specialist job description. An
expectation of this individual is ensuring all financial requirements are met including the collection of patient liabilities
and all ABN related payment expectations, and route uninsured patients appropriately through financial counseling.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Utilizes proper patient identification; properly armband patients. Ensures all demographic and insurance
information is obtained and correct; scans IDs and insurance cards. Sends query for insurance eligibility to
validate and accurately document eligibility and benefits. Informs patients of in/out of network status, as
appropriate. Accurately completes the Medicare Secondary Payer Questionnaire on all eligible patients.
Demonstrates working knowledge of EMTALA, HIPAA, and financial assistance.
Collects all payments due, including current liabilities, outstanding balances and ABN related amounts.
Accurately schedules patient follow-up appointments at checkout that best fit the patients schedule in
coordination of availability of provider and other resources. Performs other duties to ensure
reimbursement is received for appointments/services including, but not limited to, obtaining required precertifications,
referrals or authorizations and completing medical necessity checks.
Assists Management in training, ongoing development, and compiling data for evaluations. Reviews daily
audit, performance statistics and productivity reports. Assists staff with work flow questions. Assists with
training and job shadowing for new staff and cross training of current staff. Researches issues such as
registration errors and patient dissatisfaction. Reconciles liability collections, conducts quality checks on
individual deposits. Balances log sheets.
Obtains all necessary patient demographics, insurance, and financial information for provider services
rendered at off-site non-affiliated locations (including all referral and authorizations related to encounters).
Reconciles all encounter forms daily. Discusses problems/confidential information appropriately; keeps any
confidential documents secure and out of public view.
Must follow department and System policies and procedures, in addition to all applicable state and federal
regulations, including EMTALA. Must adhere to physician/departmental scheduling protocols to accurately
schedule patients for appointments. Strives to achieve point of service collection goals, as established
annually. Achievement of benchmarks including, but not limited to: greater than registration accuracy
rate; insurance verification rate; MSPQ obtained; ABNs obtained.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

• High School Diploma General or GED General or Associates General-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

• CHAA - Cert Healthcare Access Assoc or CPAR - Certified Patient Account Rep or CRCR - Certified Revenue Cycle Rep or CRCR-P - Certified Revenue Cycle Rep - Provisional (90 Days) within 120 Days

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

HFMA, NAHAM, AAHAM, CPC or equivalent Upon Hire Preferred

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum 2 years registration or face-to-face customer service healthcare setting. Required or
Minimum 3 years registration or face-to-face customer service healthcare setting. Preferred and

Required Minimum Skills:

• Customer Service
• Basic Computer
• MS Office
• Medical Terminology- preferred

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