Contact Center Assistant I - Patient Access - Days

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Answer high volume of incoming calls to a centralized phone queue and occasional outgoing calls with exceptional customer service skills in a timely manner
• Actively listen to identify defined urgent symptoms and direct appropriately to clinical staff
• Identify customers' needs, clarify information, research issues and provide solutions and/or alternatives
• Effectively relay medical information to the clinical team to aid them in providing exceptional patient care (verbally or via the patient's Electronic Health Record as appropriate)
• Maintain accurate and comprehensible documentation of caller's needs in the patient's EHR
• Communicate with ancillary areas (pharmacy, lab, imaging, etc.) to provide information for the patient/practice
• Build sustainable relationships and engage customers by going the extra mile
• Schedule patient appointments within established parameters
• Collect accurate financial and demographic information for registration when necessary
• Pages providers as needed for consults
• Meet department/team qualitative and quantitative targets
• Possess strong computer skills and the ability to maneuver multiple resources
• Utilize communication "scripts" when handling specific topics
• Comply with all HIPAA rules and regulations; obtain 2 patient identifiers with each interaction

Common Expectations:

• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment and safety standards.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation
• Establishes and maintains files and records on an ongoing basis.