Registration & Fin Rep at Baystate Health in Ware, MA

Summary: 

Schedule: Per diem work opportunity; this is a 1st shift work opportunity and flexible schedule and days are required.

Location: Baystate Wing Medical Center; Palmer MA

Under direction of the Revenue Cycle Registration Manager, receives and assesses requests from all major customer constituencies: patients, providers, service areas and payers. Analyzes customer requests and coordinates accurate and thorough information exchange. Provides accurate documentation following all established protocols. Collaborates with service area and acts as liaison between Baystate Health and our external customers to satisfy customer requests. Performs responsibilities within established customer service standards.

Job Responsibilities: 

1) Registers and/or pre-registers patients both in person and via telephone.

2) Collects/verifies/updates all account demographic and financial information including insurance information within established quality assurance thresholds.

3) Adheres to call guides and communicates in a professional, respectful and appropriate manner to all patients and/or family members as well as hospital staff.

4) Under supervision of mentor collects co-payments, deductibles, co-insurance, and other patient balances where applicable.

5) Under supervision of mentor accepts payment, releases change, and provides receipt with 100% accuracy as indicated by daily balancing.

6) Under supervision of mentor secures cash drawer according to departmental procedures with random quarterly balance checks 100% of the time.

7) Provides preparation instructions and directions to various locations.

8) Participates in a variety of activities in support of the product line, which may include quality assurance review, mentoring, statistical collection and report production.

9) Participates in assigned team activities in support of product line, team and department.

10) Attends required in-service/meetings. Maintains resources. Accepts/encourages assessment/feedback from peers and supervisors.

11) Successfully completes introductory classroom training in Access policies, procedures, workflows and applications. BMC ONLY

12) Completes departmental orientation and orientation to product line, demonstrating competency in introductory proficiency testing. BMC ONLY

13) Under supervision of mentor completes ED Unit Coordinator functions as required by shift assignment including:BMD functions, ambulance quick registration, co-ordination of patient transport, maintains patient chart and prepares chart for transfer-discharge, Medical Records. BMC ONLY

14) Completes admission functions as prompted by request from appropriate clinical areas and reconciles census . BMLH and BFMC ONLY.

15) Under supervision of mentor completes cashier functions for facility, patient inquiries and patient balances. Prepares daily cash receipts and process all petty cast requests. BMLH and BFMC ONLY

16) Under supervision of mentor completes operator functions for facility. Under supervision of mentor dispatches critical codes, activates emergency code teams, disaster response team and stat pages. Alerts engineering to alarms. BMLH and BFMC ONLY.

17) Cross over limited financial counselor functions as needed. BFMC ONLY.

Required Work Experience: 

1) Customer service experience

Preferred Work Experience: 

1) Bi-lingual

Skills and Competencies: 

1) Keyboard skills and ability to type 25 wmp

2)  Speak, read, and write English clearly and concisely using correct grammar and vocabulary

Education:

GED or HiSET (Required)

Certifications:

Certified Medical Terminology - OtherOtherOther

Compensation

Note: The compensation range(s) in the table below represent the base salaries for all positions at a given grade across the health system. Typically, a new hire can expect a starting salary somewhere in the lower part of the range. Actual salaries may vary by position and will be determined based on the candidate's relevant experience. No employee will be paid below the minimum of the range. Pay ranges are listed as hourly for non-exempt employees and based on assumed full time commitment for exempt employees.

Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum

$17.98 - $22.25 - $28.08

 

 

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