Patient Access Representative 40 Hrs, Scheduling; varying shifts between 7am - 5:30pm

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Must preserve substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Content: - Intro: "When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This position is full-time, with Benefits and requires flexibility for Day shift hours between 7am - 5pm, Monday - Friday. Working in Patient Access and as a member of the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) System Services team, you can have a career that allows you to grow and advance while making a difference in people’s lives. We use a coordinated approach to delivering administrative and operational services across our entire healthcare system. By leveraging resources across the organization, we're able to provide high-quality, high-value care to the patients and the communities we proudly serve. The Patient Access Representative ensures that the patient experience in accessing healthcare at BILH is efficient and welcoming, and that patient confidentiality is respected and patient safety is preserved. Performs a variety of functions to support an accurate, safe, and customer-focused registration process, either electronically, telephonically or in person. The Patient Access Representative ensures that all proper patient financial and demographic information is obtained and processed so BILH is fully reimbursed for clinical services provided. The Patient Access Representative handles patient questions and requests accurately and efficiently, ideally with first-call resolution, or by making appropriate referrals to other departments, based on the original purpose of the question and any other questions or requests subsequently disclosed by the patient. Extensive training including Electronic Health Record (EHR) is provided. Our team works in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, helping our patients navigate their healthcare journey." That's about the role. Then "Job Description Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:" then a list of duties broken into Registration, Scheduling, Pre-Registration. We need to capture responsibilities. Then "Minimum Qualifications Education: High school degree or equivalent. Associate’s degree preferred. Licensure, Certification & Registration: None Experience: 1-3 years related work experience. Experience with computer systems required, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access. Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: Able to work successfully in a fast-paced, multi-task environment, where some independent decision-making is necessary. Able to process electronic information and data accurately and efficiently." Then "Preferred Qualifications & Skills Call Center and/or telephone customer service experience Strong typing skills 40+wpm. Knowledge of medical terminology Bilingual written and verbal communication skills Familiar with EHR Software" Then "Pay Range $20.50 - $27.59 The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law." Then benefits: earlier "This position is full-time, with Benefits and requires flexibility for Day shift hours between 7am - 5pm, Monday - Friday." So benefits mentioned but not detailed. We have a Benefits section only if posting actually states them. It says "with Benefits" but no specifics. Should we include Benefits section? The rule: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It states "with Benefits" but not details. Is that enough? It states benefits exist but not specifics. The rule says "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. 'commensurate with experience', 'not specified', 'N/A', 'varies', 'TBD')". "with Benefits" is not placeholder but it's vague. However we could include a Benefits section with the statement "This position is full-time, with Benefits". That is substantive? It's minimal but it's actual content. Probably okay. Schedule: "requires flexibility for Day shift hours between 7am - 5pm, Monday - Friday." That's schedule specifics. So we can include Schedule section. Pay: we have pay range details, so include Pay section. Now we need sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Use

for each section heading. We need to use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. At end there is EEO statement etc. Remove that. Also remove lines like "More than 35,000 people working together..." maybe that's not boilerplate but it's about organization; could be considered substantive? It's more fluff but maybe keep? It's not essential but it's not boilerplate. However it's not about the job. Might be considered filler. Safer to remove? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The paragraph about 35,000 people is not those categories. It's more promotional. Might be okay to keep but could be considered filler. I'd keep it as part of About the role? It's after the EEO line? Actually after EEO line: "As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment. More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled". The vaccination requirement is substantive? It's a condition of employment. Might be relevant but could be considered legal/boilerplate? It's a requirement (flu vaccine). Might be considered a requirement. However it's not explicitly listed under qualifications. Could be included under Requirements? Might be okay. But the instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The vaccination requirement is not EEO but could be considered a condition of employment. I'd keep it maybe under Requirements as "Must be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment." But we need to see if we want to include that. It's a specific requirement. I'd include. Now let's structure. About the role: combine introductory paragraphs up to "Job Description Essential Duties & Responsibilities". We'll put that in

  . Responsibilities: list duties. We have many bullet-like sentences. We'll create

  • for each duty. Could group by categories but not required. We'll just list each duty as separate li. We need to ensure we don't lose any duty details. Let's extract duties from the text: Registration: - Registers patients presenting for visits. - Explains the registration process to patients and responds to patient questions. - Processes patient co-payments, co-insurance, deductibles, and balances due. - Safeguards cash, checks and receipts and reconciles cash drawer at the end of each business day. - Assists patients with Kiosk check-in as needed. - Completes the Medicare Secondary Payer Questionnaire for each patient and adjusts patient coverage based on results. - Instructs patients and obtains signatures on consent forms, financial forms, and other documents required by the clinical department; distributes documents to patients; scans, processes, and records receipt of all documents collected during registration encounter. - Counsels patients regarding non-covered services, obtaining signatures on Advance Notice Beneficiaries (ABNs), consents and waivers. - Monitors patient waiting area for a smooth, efficient registration flow. - Advises patients of potential delays and takes steps to ensure a pleasant patient experience. - Responds to patient concerns and potential patient safety issues accordingly. - Recognizes health conditions that are a possible risk to others and adheres to appropriate established procedures to help contain risk. - Assures a neat, orderly registration desk and patient waiting area, securing all confidential patient information. Scheduling: - Initiates patient scheduling activities by prioritizing and accessing a variety of sources, including patient phone calls and digital messaging, orders, scheduled order work queues. - Utilizes a variety of information sources to schedule, reschedule, and cancel patient appointments. Information sources include online questionnaires, offline materials, and subgroup searches. - Establishes working relationships with staff of assigned clinical departments. - Understands and correctly applies unique clinical department scheduling protocols. - Remains current on scheduling protocols and applies judgment, or seeks management assistance, to ensure safe patient care when clinical department scheduling protocols do not meet patient needs. - Ensures all required key patient scheduling and registration information is captured and verified. Key information includes referring physician information, insurance coverage, demographics, and contact information. - Identifies and communicates to Patient Access management issues that may impact the timeliness and accuracy of patient appointments and subsequent patient care. - Strictly follows confidentiality and equipment security and safeguarding guidelines when working in a remote setting. - Maintains productivity, quality, and accuracy levels and communicates regularly with the Supervisor and Manager. Pre-Registration: - Efficiently registers patients, capturing and verifying all required information in order to identify the patient, contact the patient, and receive proper reimbursement for services on initial claim submission. - Ascertains, creates, and assigns the guarantor for each patient, including personal/family relations, workers compensation insurance, third parties, behavioral health, or others as required. - Identifies records and verifies patient insurance coverage using real-time eligibility (RTE); reviews the insurer’s response to each verification request and takes appropriate action based on this response. - Applies the appropriate guarantor and insurance to each patient visit. - Communicates financial clearance status to patients. - Advises patients of contract status, self-pay status, and payment responsibility and schedules patients with Financial Counseling as needed. We could also include "Extensive training including Electronic Health Record (EHR) is provided." maybe under Responsibilities or About the role. It's a benefit/training. Could be under Responsibilities as a duty? It's more of a provision. Could be under About the role. Now Requirements: Minimum Qualifications: Education: High school degree or equivalent. Associate’s degree preferred. Licensure, Certification & Registration: None. Experience: 1-3 years related work experience. Experience with computer systems required, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access. Also maybe the flu vaccination requirement. We'll put these in
    • . Skills, Knowledge & Abilities: Able to work successfully in a fast-paced, multi-task environment, where some independent decision-making is necessary. Able to process electronic information and data accurately and efficiently. Preferred Qualifications & Skills: Call Center and/or telephone customer service experience; Strong typing skills 40+wpm; Knowledge of medical terminology; Bilingual written and verbal communication skills; Familiar with EHR Software. We could combine Skills section with both required and preferred? The instruction: Use headings Skills, Requirements, Qualifications etc. We have both Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications & Skills. Could treat Requirements as minimum qualifications, Qualifications as preferred? Or we could have Requirements (minimum) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills could be separate for abilities. But we have overlapping. Let's decide: - About the