Principal Admitting Worker - ACC - Ambulatory Admin - FT Days

About the role

Incumbent performs all tasks necessary to register patients, obtain necessary authorizations, verify the patient has a source of funding to cover services, and schedule patients for surgery. Responds to patient inquiries and resolves any identified issues.

Responsibilities

• Register patients
• Obtain necessary authorizations
• Verify patient has a source of funding to cover services
• Schedule patients for surgery
• Respond to patient inquiries
• Resolve identified issues

Requirements

• Previous experience with computer registration and registration scheduling system
• Skill, knowledge and ability essential to successful performance of assigned duties
• General understanding of medical terminology
• Customer service skills appropriate to the job
• Ability to travel to off‑site physician practices
• Minimum one (1) year recent experience (within past two (2) years) registering patients in a hospital or clinic, working as a Medical Assistant, or working in medical billing
• General knowledge of ICD‑9 and CPT codes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Demonstrated experience using MS Office
• Ability to work weekends, holidays, and evenings
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
• Ability to interpret and understand various medical insurance plans and make accurate determinations regarding coverage
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System

Qualifications

• Knowledge of University and medical center organizations, policies, procedures and forms
• Familiarity of Joint Commission standards
• Experience with Epic
• Demonstrated experience with authorization process and surgical scheduling
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Sick and vacation time
• Retirement savings plans
• Access to a number of discounts and perks

Schedule

Ability to work weekends, holidays, and evenings as needed.