At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support, and respect of an organization that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation's Top 100 Places to Work.
You'll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you're open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.
Join the Patient Financial Services team at Scripps Green Hospital as a Patient Service Representative. This important role involves greeting patients, explaining documents, obtaining signatures, and checking in patients. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer service and medical registration background.
General PSR duties may include:
- Interacting with patients, payers and providers to gather information necessary for accurate registration including assigning of appropriate medical record number, scheduling, and referral/authorization, point of service payment collection, document collection and arrival/check-in functions
- Responding to customer billing and payment inquires as needed.
- Effectively managing the patient check-in and check-out process from start to finish, which includes identification verification; updating or confirming demographic and insurance information on every patient; ensuring appropriate forms are provided, signed and witnessed at the time of the patient visit; collecting patient payment responsibility and accurately preparing end of day reporting or payment reconciliation as needed.
- Escalating billing inquiries as needed.
- Accurately scheduling patient appointments. Successful scheduling includes, but is not limited to, exhibiting proficiency in appointment scheduling procedures, accurate documentation and routing of messages, scheduling and confirming appointments according to practice guidelines, entering appropriate insurance, performing key user duties with minimal errors.
- May be responsible for initiating and validating referrals/authorizations.
- Regularly displaying a proactive approach to customer service by listening to the patient, taking ownership of solutions and being able to accurately identify the need to involve leadership in order to resolve concerns.
This is a non-benefitted Casual (per diem) position with a varied schedule that includes some weekends, located at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla/Torrey Pines.