Registrar Casual

About the role

Available hours to pick up are based on the department need. Must be willing to rotate all shifts - days, afternoons and midnights throughout the week. Position will support the Wayne hospital.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers promptly with a warm and friendly reception.
• Direct patients to appropriate setting, explaining and apologizing for any delays.
• Maintain professionalism and diplomacy at all times, following specific standards as defined in the department professionalism policy.
• Register patients for each visit type and admit type and area of service via EPIC (Electronic Medical Record- EMR).
• Collections and documents all required demographic and financial information.
• Scrutinize patient insurance(s), identifies the correct insurance plan, selects appropriately from the EPIC and documents correct insurance order.
• Applies recurring visit processing according to protocol.
• May facilitate use of electronic registration tools where available (Kiosks, etc.).
• Verify patient information with third party payers.
• Collects and documents Advance Directive information, educating and providing information as necessary.
• Collects and documents Medicare Questionnaire, issue Medicare Inpatient Letter & Medicare Off-site Notifications as required by Government mandates.
• Scan appropriate documents.
• Manage all responsibilities within Compliance guidelines as outlined in the Hospital and Department Compliance Plans and in accordance with Meaningful Use requirements.
• Financial Advocacy: Screen all patients self-pay & out of network patients using the EPIC tools. Provide information for follow up and referral to the Financial Advisor as appropriate. Initiate payment plans and obtain payment, Informs and explains to patients/families all applicable government and private funding programs and other cash payment plans or discounts.
• Utilize audits and controls to manage cash accurately and safely.
• Transcribe written physician orders, communicating with physician/office staff as necessary to clarify.
• Determine & document ICD-10 codes.
• Performs medical necessity check and issue ABN as appropriate for Medicare primary outpatients. Note: excluding lab-only outpatients effective September.
• Affix wristbands to patients, prepare patient charts.
• Manage/prepare miscellaneous reports, schedules and paperwork.
• Manage/prepare duplicates Medical Records for merge: identify potential duplicate records to determine that the past and current records are truly the same.
• Utilize all system resources and contact patient if necessary.
• May act as a preceptor to a newer staff member.
• Maintains or exceeds the department specific individual productivity standards, collection targets, quality audit scores for accuracy productivity, collection and standards for registrations/insurance verifications.
• Provide excellent service to our clinical and “downstream” departments and physicians as users of our registration services.
• Contribute to process improvement activities to support an efficient patient and process flow.
• Clerical duties including i.e., typing, filing, mailing, calling patients to form groups or to obtain case history, copying, faxing, receiving payments and funding applications.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 1 year of relevant experience customer service role or health care industry
• Must be 18 years of age, as required to co-sign legal documents (hospital consent forms, etc)
• Proficient in medical terminology and has assimilated the proficient typing requirements (30 words/min)

Skills

• Windows
• Excel
• Word
• EPIC
• Electronic Eligibility System
• Variety of websites for third party payers for verification

Benefits

Casual positions do not offer healthcare benefits.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Rotating (United States of America)