Patient Access Rep

Company: Christus Health
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: February 14, 2020

Job Description:

Description
Patient Access / Pre-Access Representatives II facilitate a welcome and easy access to the facility and are responsible for establishing an encounter for any patient who meets the guidelines for hospital service. Patient Access / Pre-Access Representative II ensures that all data entry is accurate including scheduled procedures. demographic and financial information, insurance verification, authorization for services and collections of patient portion. Patient Access / Pre-Access Representative II communicates directly with patients and families, physicians, nurses, insurance companies and third party payers. This position requires professional appearance, behavior, good communication skills, dependability, flexibility, and teamwork.

Scheduler will be responsible for verifying medical necessity when scheduling patients for all procedures. Each Scheduler will have ICD-10-CM diagnosis code and CPT procedure code assigned to each case



Requirements
Requirements:
Two years' experience in hospital registration or a comparable position preferred

Certified Healthcare Access Associate through National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) or Coding Certificate.

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