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Patient Service Representative
First Choice Community Health CentersLillington, NC, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Oct 2025
About the role
The Patient Service Representative (PSR) coordinates across patient care continuum by being the first and most frequent contact with patients, families, providers, and office staff. The PSR assists in coordination of healthcare and patient-centric care management by serving as patient and provider advocate by answering all specific questions, while educating and guiding patients through the complicated process of healthcare. The PSR also follows-up on calls by completing research, solving problems, and contacting various parties to implement solutions.
The PSR is a member of the Patient Centered Medical Home healthcare team approach to delivering care in a proactive, planned, and coordinated evidence-based care. The role of the PSR focuses on problem solving, patient advocacy, education and guidance by meeting the patient’s needs and preferences for quality health care. The PSR will report to and receive supervision from the Billing Coordinator. As a PSR, employees will be expected to operate efficiently at either the Front Desk or Call Center.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
They include, but are not limited to, the following:
The PSR is a member of the Patient Centered Medical Home healthcare team approach to delivering care in a proactive, planned, and coordinated evidence-based care. The role of the PSR focuses on problem solving, patient advocacy, education and guidance by meeting the patient’s needs and preferences for quality health care. The PSR will report to and receive supervision from the Billing Coordinator. As a PSR, employees will be expected to operate efficiently at either the Front Desk or Call Center.
- Front Desk: responsible for check-in and check-out of all patients, insuring complete and accurate patient information, entering billing/encounter information into corporate practice management system accurately and timely, collecting co-payments, deductibles, etc. from patients, and collecting billing information for all payer types.
- Call Center: responsible for handling high volume of incoming calls for FCCHC’s appointment scheduling line; ensuring patients receive professional and courteous patient service as well as present information and answer questions regarding corporate patient scheduling and registration procedures.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
They include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide new and/or established patients with all forms that must to be completed or updated to ensure accurate patient demographic, insurance, financial (Sliding Fee Scale) and UDS information;
- Ensure the completeness of forms, and accuracy of data obtained, are entered correctly into the corporate practice management systems; information will be updated each time patient comes into office to be seen;
- Provide assistance to patients on any questions the patients may have pertaining to their form(s);
- Resolved patient concerns in an effective and timely manner, to include re-routing calls;
- Greet patients in a professional and courteous manner to ensure excellent patient service and satisfaction, which includes face-to-face and/or telephone communications and direct phone calls to the appropriate staff member;
- Scheduling all patient appointments (to include follow-up visits) for individual location(s) in a timely manner and in accordance with corporate production goals;
- Establish medical/dental records for all new patients;
- Verify and obtain all information from the patient regarding demographic, insurance and financial (Sliding Fee Scale) is accurate and all copies of appropriate documentation to support demographic, insurance and financial information is filed in the patient’s medical/dental record;
- Responsible for making sure all the correct administrative and patient care forms are complete and filed in the appropriate order in the patient’s medical/dental records;
- When computer systems are down, retrieve patient medical record for patient visit and provide to the appropriate medical staff and re-file chart upon completion of visit and appropriate signatures have been received;
- When computer systems are down, responsible for printing encounter form at check-in and entering all encounter charges and receipts immediately upon completion of the visit;
- Run and balance corporate practice management system end of day receipt report totals between encounters, batch report (i.e., check conversion, cash and credit/debit card machine) and cash drawer. Run and balance corporate practice management system end of day charge report totals only when computer system is down;
- Complete daily report form for appointments, production, charges, monies collected, batch report totals, drawer start off and petty cash along with corporate practice management system end of the day receipt report totals to Accounting at the close of each day;
- Open mail and distribute mail following all U.S. Postal Service requirements and guidelines;
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