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Job Type:
RegularScheduled Hours:
20
💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare
At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.
🌟 Benefits That Support You
We invest in you — personally and professionally.
Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility
Job Summary:
Perform a variety of duties in order to register, order, receive and process laboratory specimens in an accurate and timely manner, assuring correct billing by the SEH Billing Department.Job Description:
Order/Registration
- Performs accurate and complete registration on all patient/accounts. Assures 100% accuracy in identifying correct patient in EPIC. Demonstrates knowledge of guarantor assignment, payer information, assigning correct provider, billing indicator and if applicable, correct client information. Scans all pertinent documents. Maintains Registration Error and Demographic Work Queue.
- Accurately places and releases all orders in EPIC and/or the LIS. Resolves all test selection issues to assure quality and timely results.
Customer Service & Support
- Provide support to clients, draw locations and technical departments in a courteous and respectful manner to assure delivery of quality service.
- Takes all necessary steps to resolve issues that could prevent or delay completion of testing and lab processes in the best interest of the patient and client. Always safeguards confidential matters.
- Receives and disseminates messages regarding specimen pickup, patient blood draws, test orders, processing and results for the laboratory system.
- Handles communication with physicians, healthcare providers, laboratory leadership and staff, patients, patient families and visitors. Provides information on test and specimen requirements and lab processes.
- Responsible for completion of all call-back queues and meeting the required response times. Manages add-on tests. Provides documentation of issues and resolutions information to OSCPII as part of the Laboratory Quality program.
- Uses and maintains a variety of office equipment such as fax machines, telephones, paging/tracking systems, printers, copiers and computers for the access and distribution of information including laboratory results and laboratory services.
Receiving & Labeling of Specimens
- Receives and labels all specimens into the LIS. Assures 100% correct labeling of all specimens. Follows all safety protocols and procedures when handling blood and other potentially infectious specimens.
- Accurately completes all Transfer lists.
- Monitor’s list of incoming specimens for anomalies and follows up on items in question.
Sorting & Distribution of Specimens
- Sorts all specimens upon arrival. Assures correct sorting for registration and receiving. Always maintains specimen integrity.
- Delivers all specimens to the correct testing location in a timely manner. Assures that all specimens are maintained properly during processing and delivery.
Testing & Specimen Collection
- Demonstrates understanding of test and specimen requirements. Seeks assistance from technical staff and reference material when necessary.
Other Duties as Assigned
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
- High School Graduate
Specialized Knowledge:
- Keyboard/Data entry skills
- Organizational skills
- Minimum 1-year clerical experience
- Data Entry Skills above 100 Net Keystrokes/min
FLSA Status:
Non-ExemptRight Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.
Other facts
About St. Elizabeth Healthcare
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is one of the oldest, largest and most respected medical providers in the Greater Cincinnati region. For more than 150 years, St. Elizabeth has been the heart and soul of healthcare in Northern Kentucky. Founded with one small hospital in 1861, St. Elizabeth Healthcare now operates six facilities throughout Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana – St. Elizabeth Covington, St. Elizabeth Edgewood, St. Elizabeth Florence, St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas, St. Elizabeth Grant and St. Elizabeth Dearborn. St. Elizabeth also has vast resources to serve the Greater Cincinnati area, including almost 1,200 licensed beds; a physician organization, which includes more than 100 primary care and specialty office locations; 1,200 physicians with admitting privileges; nearly 8,500 associates; more than 1,200 volunteers; and three freestanding imaging centers and two ambulatory surgery centers.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve. We accomplish this through state-of the-art technology and nearly 8,500 associates, led by a well-respected board and executive leadership team who love this organization and our community.
What you'll do
- The Specialist Outreach Central Processor I is responsible for registering, ordering, receiving, and processing laboratory specimens accurately and timely. This role also involves providing customer service and support to clients and ensuring the integrity of specimens throughout the process.
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