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Are you ready to bring your skills to a world-class healthcare organization recognized as one of the top ten in the United States? Come join our team!

The Patient Access Rep II performs all admissions activities for pre-admit and face-to-face registration of patients presenting to Admissions and/or outpatient areas for treatment. Facilitates patient access to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and secures all demographic and financial patient registration information, including the following: Registration, Pre-Registration, government and non-government insurance verification, eligibility verification, Workers Compensation eligibility, and securing cash deposits (co-pays, deductibles, cash packages). Demonstrates the ability to perform job duties and interact with customers with sensitivity and attention to the patient population(s) served. Provides superior customer service through all personal and professional interactions with all customers within the Cedars-Sinai Health System

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs all registration activities for patients presenting to all patient access areas. Cross trained and competent to perform in no less than 3 patient access functions and/or patient access areas.
• Obtains financial clearance and determines patient's correct financial classification. Performs insurance verification electronically, telephonically, or through product website(s).
• Performs proper system search to secure a medical record number (MRN) or assign a new MRN without duplication. Consistently follows CSMC Patient Identification Policy when assigning and verifying MRN.
• Performs proper selection of physician. Recognizes privileging issues (physician suspensions). Knows how to handle and resolve physician privilege and suspension issues.
• Demonstrates superior patient interviewing skills. Interacts with patients and performs job duties with sensitivity and attention to the patient population(s) being served.
• Competent to independently handle routine / frequent inquiries from patients, patient representatives and insurance companies. Escalates issues appropriately.
• Demonstrates collection skills. Able to determine and explain patient financial obligation and collect funds when appropriate. Meets or exceeds cash collection goals
• Works and resolves QA error worklist daily and without exception.
• Interacts with physicians and specialty departments to assure accurate intake of information required for complete registration.
• Demonstrates the ability to clearly explain registration and consent forms to the patient and obtain necessary signatures.
• Demonstrates the ability to assemble registration paperwork for inclusion on the patient chart. Scans all appropriate documents into scanning system for retrieval as necessary.
• Demonstrates competency regarding navigation and entering patient and financial information in the ADT system.
• Maintains patient confidentiality. Knows and adheres to CSMC and HIPAA regulations regarding patient privacy and release of information.

Qualifications

Education & Experience Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED required. Bachelor's Degree in Hospital Administration or equivalent preferred.
• One (1) years of healthcare experience working in Patient Access, Registration, Financial Clearance, Scheduling, or Revenue Cycle related roles, including physician offices, healthcare insurance companies, or other revenue cycle related functions required.
• EPIC EMR & insurance verification experience strongly desired.
• Scheduling flexibility and timeliness including weekend & holiday commitments.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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