Auditing, Customer Support/Service, Demographics, Employee Orientation, Environmental Monitoring, Financial Management, Infection Control, Process Improvement, Project/Program Management, Quality Management, Quality Monitoring, Regulations, Safety/Work Safety, Team Player, Third-Party Payer, Training/Teaching
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Ensures that the department functions run efficiently and effectively by overseeing day to day functions, scheduling staff and expediting problems.
- Ensures accurate financial and demographic information has been obtained and properly entered into the appropriate records.
- Coordinates with medical/clinical and administrative staff to ensure appropriate arrival, registration, and pre-service responsibilities of patients and compliance with third party payers and other regulations are complete.
- Supervises Patient Access department responsibilities.
- Develops, revises, and maintains area specific policies and procedures, evaluates and monitors goals and objectives, promotes LDMS standards for process improvement and quality assessments, and monitors safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Promotes the active engagement of all employees and supports recognition of staff accomplishments.
- Investigates and follows up on SRS/CRS and reports from patients and department concerns, auditing when necessary.
- Oversees the reporting process for their assigned Patient Access department. Resolves errors, exceptions and unreconciled items promptly.
- Plans, conducts and supervises assigned projects.
Common Expectations:
- Selects, trains/orients, assigns staff, evaluates performance on a monthly/quarterly and annual basis, prepares and/or assists with work schedules, provides training and continuing education of staff and initiates/makes recommendations for personnel actions.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.
- Attends meetings as required.
- Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.