Bilingual Float Patient Service Representative

This is a full time position that requires working in the following counties: Greenwood, Saluda, Abbeville, McCormick, Edgefield, Newberry, and Laurens.

Bilingual in Spanish is required.

Description

The Patient Service Representative (PSR) represents Carolina Health Centers and the assigned practice site in a professional manner and serves as the first point of contact for patients, visitors and callers. This position provides daily support for the practice site including telephone coverage, appointment scheduling, check-in and check-out of patients (ensuring demographic and insurance information, as well as payment information is accurate and complete in the practice management system), patient referrals, and general patient communication.

Additional Details:

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent

Work Experience and Skills

• Bilingual in Spanish is required
• Knowledgeable of medical terminology preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Current computer skills
• Ability to establish and promote positive interpersonal relationships
• Excellent organization skills
• Cultural awareness and appreciation for differences
• Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service and strong cultural competency
• Ability to adhere to strict confidentiality guidelines
• Good interpersonal, organizational, and computer skills required
• Teamwork oriented
• Able to take and follow through with delegated tasks sand accountability
• Resourcefulness in problem solving
• Beginner to intermediate proficiency in Microsoft applications: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word

Duties and Responsibilities

Customer Service:

• Answers the telephone with the standard greeting and a smile in a timely manner
• Treat Every Patient with Care and Courtesy
• Maintain a well-kept lobby and work space
• Understand, abide by, and be able to explain HIPAA to patients as needed
• Respond in a positive manner to questions, inquiries, and requests making every attempt to accommodate the patient’s needs and expectations
• Ensure patients understand the services we provide and the benefits of choosing us as their medical home

Check In:

• Acknowledge Patients in the PM system Upon Arrival
• Arrive Patients in EHR and enter location (Waiting Room)
• Verify Demographics (mailing address, telephone number, responsible party)
• Input Insurance or Sliding Fee information
• Collect Co-Pays & Post & Balance Payments
• Update Patient paperwork annually (HIPAA, Registration, RX consent)
• Run Medicaid to verify eligibility daily

Check-Out:

• Print Patient Clinical Summary
• Schedule any Follow-up Visits
• Check patients out in the PM system and EHR upon departure

Other Procedures:

• Count Cash Box and log in the amount in the box at the beginning and end of each shift
• Run an Acknowledged Patient Report, match encounters against the report & document any missing encounters
• Conduct Appointment Phone Call Reminders
• Build New Patient Accounts
• Scan & appropriately file Patient Documents
• Navigate through EMR System to print records, identify meds, referrals, lab results, etc.
• Knowledge of inner office forms (Incident reports, RX Log, Transfer of Patient Care Log, Supply Order, etc.)
• Identify and manage tasks in the EMR platform
• Distribute & Sort Mail & Courier Items
• Distribute medications delivered through the courier to patients & collect payment on those medications
• Sign out prescriptions for controlled substances to patients
• Responds to tasks from the patient portal as required in a timely manner
• Capable of using the office phone correctly (Hold, Transfer, Voicemail, Directories)
• Operate Copier for Office Copies, Fax, and Scanning
• Capable of operating the Credit Card Equipment
• Operate the Postage Machine

Salary:

Starting at $16.42/hour

All employees of Carolina Health Centers, Inc. are expected to perform the duties of their job and behave in a manner consistent with the Corporate Philosophy which supports the values of: honestly, integrity, openness, the pursuit of individual and collective excellence, and unwavering mutual respect and appreciation.