About this role
Position Summary: The Senior Patient Access Representative is responsible for completing tasks associated with specific assignments with little or no direction. Specific job responsibilities will be in registration, financial clearance, insurance verification, cashier, etc. as assigned by Revenue Cycle Management. The Senior Patient Access Representative is expected to perform assignment tasks within the quality and productivity standards assigned to position responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Provides training and guidance to Patient Access Rep as required.
- May be assigned special projects related to Patient Access workflow, procedures, etc.
- Accurately and efficiently performs registration and financial functions via Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to include: thorough interviewing techniques, registers patients in appropriate status, following registration guidelines while ensuring the accurate and timely documentation of demographic and financial data; obtains the appropriate forms and scans into the medical record as per department protocol.
- Greet customers promptly with a warm and friendly reception.
- Collects, documents, scans all required demographic and financial information.
Qualifications:
Required:
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- 5 years of Patient Access, Customer Service or Medical Billing work experience OR Associates Degree in related field and 3 years of Patient Access or Medical Billing work experience.
Preferred:
- Certification in medical billing, coding, or equivalent job specific certification
Other facts
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
What you'll do
- The Senior Patient Access Representative is responsible for registration, financial clearance, insurance verification, and cashier tasks with minimal direction. They also provide training and guidance to other Patient Access Representatives and may be assigned special projects.
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