Patient Services Representative - Front Desk

Job Description

Job Description

Job Location:10 Hawthorne Place, Boston, MA 02114 (BBJI OccMed)

Ability to speak English and Spanish is required.

Position Summary

• Greets patients as they arrive for scheduled appointments
• Provides new patients appropriate paperwork for required signatures (if they have not been pre-registered)
• Verifies demographic and insurance information for new and established patients, according to protocol; makes a copy of each patient's insurance card, front and back and also their license
• Collects patients’ co-payment and any previous balances that are due. Manages Self-pay client accounts.
• Checks for insurance referral and has patient sign waiver if referral has not been obtained.
• Explains financial and collection policies to new patients—provides written guidelines to each patient
• Ensures all patient paperwork is complete before patient is seen—puts the chart up for the clinical staff
• Informs patients in the reception area when the physicians are running behind—offers to reschedule them
• Summarized other duties include printing, cleaning, answering phones, monitoring voicemails, collecting and relaying information to appropriate areas in the practice.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Operate telephone switchboard to answer, screen, or forward calls, providing information, taking messages, or scheduling appointments.
• Receive payment and record receipts for services.
• Perform administrative support tasks, such as proofreading, transcribing handwritten information, or operating calculators or computers to work with pay records, invoices, balance sheets, or other documents.
• Greet persons entering establishment, determine nature and purpose of visit, and direct or escort them to specific destinations.
• Hear and resolve complaints from customers or the public.
• File and maintain records.
• Transmit information or documents to customers, using email, mail, or fax.
• Schedule appointments and maintain and update appointment calendars.
• Analyze data to determine answers to questions from customers or members of the public.
• Provide information about establishment, such as location of departments or offices, employees within the organization, or services provided.
• Collect, sort, distribute, or prepare mail, messages, or courier deliveries.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Experience typically gained with an Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) and 1 year of relevant work experience.

Active Learning- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Active Listening- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Critical Thinking- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Learning Strategies- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Mathematics- Using mathematics to solve problems.

Monitoring- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Multitasking - the performance of more than one task at the same time.

Reading Comprehension- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Science- Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Speaking- Talking to others to convey information effectively.