UHS
UHS
Posted about 1 month ago
Full Time
Riverside, California
In Person
Smart Summary
Responsibilities
The Patient Representative provides comprehensive patient care services, including registration, insurance verification, and appointment scheduling. They also support clinical staff by maintaining records, managing equipment, and ensuring a professional, patient-oriented environment.
Qualifications
We are seeking a Patient Representative to provide comprehensive patient care services. Key requirements include a high school diploma or GED, strong communication and clerical skills, and ideally one year of medical office experience with medical terminology knowledge. This role involves verifying patient information, collecting payments, scheduling appointments, and ensuring a pleasant patient-oriented atmosphere.
Job Description
Come and join the RMC Family!
We have been in the community since 1935. Our mission is to provide comprehensive multi-specialty medical services in the greater Riverside region. Your passion, inspiration, and talents are invaluable to us and our mission to serve others. Our facility can provide a place for you to thrive and continue your professional development. Quality Healthcare is our passion, improving lives is our reward. We are working to change lives and transform the delivery of healthcare.
Riverside Medical Clinic is the best place to work, practice medicine, and receive care.
Summary: Provides Patient Care Services Representative coverage based on the Clinic requirements. Assumes all Patient Care Services Representative job responsibilities. Verifies established patient information to ensure accuracy and insurance information is correct. Collect co-pay and amounts due if applicable, giving each patient a receipt. Cooperates in cross-training others to ensure coverage at all times. Patient Representatives working in the Audiology department perform tasks that are prescribed, directed, and supervised by audiologists including, but not limited to, testing equipment set up, operation and maintenance; clinical procedures, device orientation and training; hearing aid trouble shooting and repair; maintaining records related to patients, supplies, equipment; clinical activities including patient intake, scheduling, referral management, chart record-keeping, provider support requests, follow-up, customer service and other administrative support.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Hours: Monday- Friday 8:30am-5:30pm
Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. Must possess good written and verbal communication skills, typing, general clerical skills and excellent telephone skills. Medical terminology and one year medical office experience preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, AND Registrations: None.
Essential Functions:
Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job’s purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable. Note: (other duties may be assigned, deleted or changed at any time, at the discretion of management, formally, or informally, either verbally or in writing).
1. Cooperate in the cross training of this position to ensure adequate coverage at all times: cooperate in being cross-trained to another position to ensure coverage at all times.
2. May travel between departments and facilities to assist in coverage as required.
3. Assist in training of Patient Care Service staff (e.g. classroom, on-the-job settings.)
4. Responsible for following and keeping each provider’s schedule (e.g. Out-of-office meetings, lunches, and/or vacations). Update provider’s calendar as needed in computer.
5. Schedule new and established patients according to the approved Clinic guidelines of each practitioner and the appointment scheduling policies and procedures.
6. Verify and update patient information following patient registration criteria; obtain copies of insurance care. Make corrections into computer immediately.
7. Collect payments and inform patients of payment responsibility according to Business Office guidelines. Balance and deposit payments on daily basis.
8. Make return appointments for patients within the scheduling guidelines. Cancel and reschedule patients as needed. Follow protocol for all patients’ check-in.
9. Take messages for the office staff and providers as requested and when appropriate (per policy). Route messages according to procedure.
10. Prepare charts according to office procedure.
11. Assume responsibility for initiating a pleasant, patient –oriented atmosphere by displaying a professional attitude through performance, appearance, and demeanor.
12. Duties may vary occurring to assignment (e.g. check-in or appointment scheduling for Patient Service Representative).
13. Filing document daily in medical records.
14. Assume maintenance responsibility for office equipment (fax, copier, printer, etc.)
15. Cooperates in cross-training others to this position to ensure coverage at all times.
This opportunity offers the following:
Challenging and rewarding work environment
Growth and Development Opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
Competitive Compensation
About Universal Health Services
One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com
EEO Statement
All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.
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At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.
If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters
UHS
Located in Aiken, South Carolina, which was named 2018’s “Best Small Town in the South” by Southern Living Magazine, Aiken Regional Medical Centers is a 273 licensed-bed acute care facility that offers a comprehensive range of specialties and services. Aiken Regional is dedicated to patient safety and providing quality healthcare services, many of which are recognized on a state, regional or national level including a Certified Primary Heart Attack Center, a Certified Primary Stroke Center and an Advanced Heart Failure Certification from The Joint Commission® and American Heart Association®. Aiken Regional receives more than 42,000 emergency room visits, performs nearly 9,000 surgeries and delivers over 1,100 babies each year. More than 1,200 associates, a medical staff of more than 200 multi-specialty physicians, and a team of 230 volunteers keep the hospital going with their dedication to quality and excellence. To learn more about Aiken Regional, visit aikenregional.com. Aiken Regional Medical Centers is owned and operated by a subsidiary of one of the largest hospital companies in the nation, Universal Health Services, Inc., based in King of Prussia, PA, and is accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by the State of South Carolina. Social media accounts are managed by Marketing. We are unable to provide medical advice through social media. Please contact your physician, or in case of emergency, call 911. Although we do our best to respond to comments and messages, there may be a delay in response time, and we may not be able to respond due to the nature of the message. Visit our website for language assistance, disability accommodations, the non-discrimination notice, Terms of Service and other disclaimers. Thank you.
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