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AdventHealth

Consumer Access Specialist

AdventHealth, Chicago, Illinois, United States,


All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

Benefits from Day One for FT/PT positions

Paid Days Off from Day One for FT/PT positions

Student Loan Repayment Program for FT/PT positions

Career Development

Whole Person Wellbeing Resources

Mental Health Resources and Support

Debt-free Education (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

Schedule:

Full Time, 36 hours

Shift:

Days, 9:00am - 5:30pm, w/rotating weekends and holidays

Location:

AdventHealth Hinsdale

The role you’ll contribute:

Ensures patients are appropriately registered for all service lines. Performs eligibility verification, obtains pre-cert and/or authorizations, makes financial arrangements, requests and receives payments for services, performs cashiering functions, clears registration errors and edits pre-bill, and other duties as required. Maintains a close working relationship with clinical partners to ensure continual open communication between clinical, ancillary and patient access departments. Actively participates in extending exemplary service to both internal and external customers.

The value you’ll bring to the team:

Proactively seeks assistance to improve any responsibilities assigned to their role

Accountable for maintaining a working relationship with clinical partners to ensure open communications between clinical, ancillary, and patient access departments, which enhances the patient experience

Provides timely and continual coverage of assigned work area in order to offer prompt patient service and availability for all clinical partner registration needs.

Meets and exceeds productivity standards determined by department leadership

Contacts insurance companies by phone, fax, online portal, and other resources to obtain and verify insurance eligibility and benefits and determine extent of coverage within established timeframe before scheduled appointments and during or after care for unscheduled patients

Verifies medical necessity in accordance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) standards and communicates relevant coverage/eligibility information to the patient.

Obtains pre-authorizations from third-party payers in accordance with payer requirements and within established timeframe.

Obtains PCP referrals when applicable

Alerts physician offices to issues with obtaining pre-authorizations.

Corrects demographic, insurance, or authorization related errors and pre-bill edits

Meets or exceeds accuracy standards and ensures integrity of patient accounts by working error reports as requested by leadership.

Registers patients for all services and achieves the department specific goal for accuracy.

Responsible for registering patients by obtaining critical demographic elements from patients.

Confirms whether patients are insured and gathers details if so.

Performs Medicare compliance review on all applicable Medicare accounts.

Properly identifies patients, ensures armband accuracy, inputs demographics information, and secures the required forms to ensure compliance with regulatory policies.

Creates accurate estimates to maximize up-front cash collections.

Calculates patients' co-pays, deductibles, and co-insurance.

Attempts to collect patient cost-sharing amounts before service.

Connects patients with financial counseling or Medicaid eligibility vendor as appropriate.

Performs cashiering functions such as collections and cash reconciliation with accuracy.

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

High School degree or equivalent required

One year or more of relevant healthcare experience preferred

Prior collections experience preferred

One or more years of customer service experience preferred

Associate's degree preferred

Bilingual – English/Spanish preferred

Category:

Patient Financial Services

Organization:

UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale

Schedule:

Full-time

Shift:

1 - Day

Req ID:

24036991

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