Patient Access Registration Specialist

Summary

Provides receptionist, registration, and clerical duties associated with registering patients for services.

Responsibilities

• Mets with patient and/or patient's caregiver to exchange necessary information and documentation.
• Provides explanation of visit, instructions, and addresses concerns and questions.
• Verifies insurance benefits and obtains pre-certification/authorization as necessary.
• Escorts and transports patients and visitors within the facility, which may include a wheelchair or oxygen tank.
• Determines and accepts required payments, including co-pays and deductibles, or refers to financial counselors for follow up.
• Ensures that all necessary demographic, billing, and clinical information is obtained and entered in the registration system with timeliness and accuracy.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.

Benefits

• Recognition Performance bonus: UCHealth offers a 3-Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals and tenure.
• Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance that meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluation process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
• Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay rates are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.
• Health and well-being: Medical, dental and vision coverage, discounted gym memberships and fitness resources, free Care.com membership, voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
• Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence, employer-provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options, employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability with a buy-up coverage option.
• Retail and savings: 403(b) plan with employer matching contribution, additional 457(b) plan may be available, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care, health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.
• Educational and career growth: Access to academic degrees and certificate programs to promote professional and personal growth, up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees, up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement, access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, internal professional development opportunities.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submission assistance.