Customer Service Representative
Job Summary
Major Duties And Responsibilities
Receive inbound contacts (calls, emails, faxes, etc.) from patients and physicians requesting services.
Answers calls in a timely manner to assist with maintaining a high level of quality service.
Provide patients with information on physicians, available services provided, and directions to all of our locations.
Answer patients or physicians questions pertaining to appointments and services provided.
Interviews callers to obtain full understanding of what information is being requested.
Responsible for satisfying the customer’s scheduling needs and striving for first call resolution.
Compliance, Policy, and Procedure
Carefully coordinate appointments for patients needing multiple types of healthcare services.
Properly register patients by verifying and obtaining accurate patient information.
Ensure that established patients have updated contact and demographic information.
Comply with confidentiality policies, such as HIPAA, when contacting patients.
Maintain and update patient demographic and insurance pre-registration information in scheduling system.
Patient Focus
Provide high quality customer service on every call.
Display empathy and sensitivity to each patient’s individual needs.
Always uses courtesy words and shows respect to each patient.
Workplace Computers and Equipment
Create and respond to Emails, Flags and Phone notes in the Centricity database.
Inputs contact, demographic, and insurance information into Centricity database.
Updates appointment reminder statuses appropriately into the Centricity database.
Dependability and Reliability
Display time flexibility towards work shift per company needs.
Teamwork
Promote teamwork and call center success.
Work as a group to improve call center policies and procedures.
Skills And Abilities
Ability to type 35 wpm preferred.
Require excellent verbal and written communication, professional telephone manner, interviewing and interpersonal skills to interact with patients, families, members of the health care team and external agencies.
Requires ability to work with diverse people and deal effectively with angry and/or upset customers.
Knowledge of MS word, Excel, and MS Outlook preferred; EMR experience is a plus.
Bilingual - English and Spanish preferred.
Education And/Or Experience
A high school degree or GED required, college degree preferred.
A minimum of 2 years of customer service experience, medical office preferred.
Preferred: Previous call center experience.