Front Office Specialist Float

Responsibilities

• Greet patients and visitors
• Communicate wait times to patients and direct them accordingly
• Obtain authorization, as needed, to process patients for services
• Check in patients using appropriate patient management system
• Explain all required forms to patients and ensure proper completion of all paperwork
• Answer incoming telephone lines and direct the caller accordingly
• Contact patients regarding appointment reminders, rescheduling, or cancellations
• Check out patients in appropriate patient management system and distribute records
• Maintain inventory of office supplies and printed forms
• Manage dissemination of all paperwork to outside parties including non-injury, custody, and control forms
• Follow HIPAA guidelines and safety rules
• Attend center staff meetings
• Participate in initial and ongoing training as required
• Complete processing of patient referrals including accurate checkout, paperwork processing, patient education, and communication with Client Support Group
• Auxiliary in managing daily administrative functions
• Auxiliary in maintaining a neat, clean, and orderly appearance throughout the facility
• Use employer reporting tool to scan and distribute employer results and paperwork
• Review clinician transcriptions and enter applicable charges via internal charge entry system
• Perform some medical assistant duties such as breath alcohol tests, drug screens, TB skin test reads and/or other duties as assigned/approved by medical leadership

Qualifications

• Education Level: High School Diploma or GED
• Job-Related Experience: 6 months to 1 year
• Working knowledge of state-specific occupational medicine requirements preferred