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SalaryPosition Highlights:
- Schedule: As needed
- Award Winning: Named among the top 10% in the Nation for Patient Safety Excellence Award, America’s 100 Best Orthopedic Surgery, America’s 100 Best Spine Surgery.
- Employee-centric: Competitive pay, excellent benefits, tuition assistance, retirement plan matching, recognition program, local discounts.
- Stability: Serving Erie and surrounding counties since 1876.
- Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.
- Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
What You Will Do:
- Under the supervision of the Site Director, provides clerical services including answering and triaging phone calls, managing requests for services and gathering required data, coordinating clinician schedules and patient appointments; and coordinating the patient flow at check-in, check-out and while in the waiting room.
- Provides clerical support the direct service staff and management team at respective site.
- Is professional in the use of the electronic medical record and related software.
- Promotes patient engagement in treatment by conveying a welcoming, non-judgmental, positive, and supportive demeanor during all interactions with patients and other involved support persons. Keeps patients informed when appointments are running late.
- Performs tasks necessary to support revenue including timely and accurate documentation of patient demographics i.e. legal names, addresses, preferred telephone numbers, email address, preferred method for appointment reminders, emergency contacts, insurance information, etc.
- Manages all clerical duties related to patient care on behalf of clinicians in order to ensure clinician time is primarily devoted to patient care. Examples include: sending out letters and other correspondence, obtaining release of information for referral sources, sending out faxes, etc.
- Actively engages in cross-training so all functions related to the operations of the front office continue in the absence of any staff person.
- Assists with filing/scanning of client materials in patient records and the preparation of QA and other reports if requested. Ensures materials are scanned into correct location within the EMR and include all appropriate notations in compliance with departmental guidelines.
What You Will Need:
High school diploma or equivalent.
Ability to type 40 wpm.
Ability to maintain a positive impression of the Medical Center at all times and handle sensitive telephone and face-to-face inquiries.
Ability to file both alphabetically and numerically.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
