Patient Service Representative - General & Vascular Surgery - Full Time (40 hours/week)

About the role

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care. Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision. KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision. We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website - Benefits - KV Healthcare www.kvhealthcare.org

Responsibilities

• Reception duties
• Medical records management
• Referrals processing
• Pre-authorizations
• Scheduling
• Working closely with the healthcare team, KVH personnel, and external customers

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• At least one year of general administrative/clerical or customer service experience
• Current computer experience (medium to expert level) in Microsoft products
• Demonstrated knowledge of Medical Terminology
• Previous cash-handling experience

Skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Some college coursework
• Bilingual
• Previous medical office experience with exposure to medical records, insurance verification and pre-authorization fundamentals, scheduling, and/or high-volume phone systems
• Certified Professional Coder from The American Academy of Professional Coders
• Certified Billing and Coding Specialist from the National Healthcareer Association
• Certified Medical Administrative Assistant from the National Healthcareer Association

Benefits

• Low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Robust employee wellness program
• Company contribution toward choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage (including spouses/domestic partners and dependent children)
• Continuing education programs (Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay)
• Pension eligibility after one year of part-time service

Pay

Wage range: starts at $19.62/hour and goes up to $29.74/hour. Actual wage will be based on years of applicable experience.

Schedule

FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)

Union status: This is a non-union covered position.