Patient Business Representative-Admitting Flex shift

Manages patient’s admissions, insurance coverage, bed coverage, and discharge.

Collect, verify, and input patient information paperwork with appropriate financial and demographic forms into the M.I.S system

Obtains all old medical record numbers from the Medical Records Department for patients previously in the system, or when appropriate assigns new medical record number

Receives information from the Emergency Department on incoming emergency admissions.

Admits and interviews patients scheduled for elective, emergency, OB, ambulatory surgery and pre-admission prior to admission to the hospital following established procedures

Registers people for private outpatient registration office. Completes corresponding charge forms and documentation

Registers patients having pre-admission testing services

Interviews patients privately before, during or after the services for financial screening to update insurance information or other pertinent data

Ensures all admissions are given admission information which includes but is not limited to: The Patient’s Bill of Rights, Discharge information, A Welcome booklet, hospital policies and procedures regarding room rates and financial obligations

Prepares and distributes daily admission and census lists

Verify patient financial class codes are correct and refers patient to Medicaid Expediters when the patient does not have coverage.

Notifies Medical A.C. of all private teaching admissions

Assign patient beds and initiate patient bed transfers when necessary.

Enters relevant discharge and transfer information into the computer

Accepts telephone and in-person requests from physicians for patients accommodations

Assures placement of patients’ name on “Elective or Emergency” list

Act as billing liaison for the patient, prepare bills, collect, deposit, and give receipts for payments. Update the billing system to reflect payments and keep track of complete and incomplete accounts in a separate filing system.

Closes all PROP, PAT and Ambulatory Surgery visits in the M.I.S. system

Process and files birth certificates

Process and files death certificates

Contacts Nursing Stations to obtain expected discharge

Release bodies to funeral director. Notify morgue attendant for family members that with to view deceased.

Communicates with Housekeeping & Nursing regarding status of patients bed using BedBoard system.

May be required to act as a messenger or patient transporter and provide backup/relief to the clinic cashiers

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSW

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next ge