Senior Patient Service Representative
Westchester Medical Center Health Network · West Nyack, NY · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
About the role
The Senior Patient Service Representative provides on-site lead for daily operations for the Medical Secretary. Serves as a liaison between Practitioners and Patients.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a liaison between Practitioners and Patients to coordinate successful delivery of care and services.
- Works with patients to get them checked in.
- Handling all questions that they have regarding the office and procedures.
- Reviews correspondence, memoranda, and routine reports and communicates with the Office Manager with issues and concerns.
- Answers all patient and hospital phone messages and communicates them with physicians.
- Processes incoming medical records and gets them into the electronic medical record.
- Answers phones make appointments, direct calls appropriately.
- Understands and helps assure compliance for HIPAA.
- Oversees the daily schedule for the physician and does orders for bloodwork for physicals.
- Demonstrates effective problem-solving and critical thinking techniques to areas of concern to patients and employees.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 5 years of prior related experience.
- Work requires knowledge of physician office policies, procedures, medical insurances and equipment.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communications skills required.
- Heavy front desk and or customer service experience a must.
- High School diploma or GED required.
- If applicable, the individual may reasonably anticipate coming into contact with human blood and other potentially infectious materials; must exercise universal precautions, use personal protective equipment, and follow infection control policies.