Lead Patient Service Representative - Einstein Philadelphia ED (Full Time, Days)

Job Details

Provides day-to-day support to Patient Access Representatives. Acts as a subject matter and technical expert. Ensures that staff offer a positive patient experience to patients and families. Demonstrates effective communication and customer service skills when interacting with staff, patients, families, and leadership. Trains and educates staff to enter complete and accurate orders, demographic and insurance information including authorizations, referrals, medical necessity. Ensures staff’s compliance with departmental and institutional protocols including communicating and collecting out of pocket liability from patients.

Job Description

Essential Functions
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Ensures timely, efficient, and accurate registration processes are followed by staff. Excels in all functions performed by staff. Keeps current on insurance tip sheets and workflow updates
• Ensures regulatory and compliance requirements are met; complies with departmental and institutional protocols
• Distributes work assignments, daily
• QAs a sample of registrations to ensure overall accuracy, provides feedback on deficiencies. Coaches and tracks for performance improvement, daily
• Backfills for staff during meal breaks. Covers scheduled PTO /ETO or unscheduled absences, as needed
• Demonstrates a professional demeanor with patients, families, coworkers, clinical and leadership by consistently fostering a positive interaction in the department
• Trains all new hires to accurately record orders, demographic and insurance information including authorizations, referrals, medical necessity. Provides real-time coaching and feedback to staff on any workflow changes or quality errors.
• Achieves individual and team performance metrics
• Interacts with a diverse patient base while ensuring door to doctor time is maintained according to departmental standard wait times
• Rotates assignment to all points of service within Patient Access (Outpatient Registration and Emergency Department.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:
Required High School Diploma or GED
AND
Experience:
3 years of patient registration experience

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Albert Einstein Medical Center

Primary Location Address

5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.