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Altru Health System | Grand Forks, ND

Posted Date 11/20/2024
Description

  • Location:

    Altru Family Medicine Center


    1380 S. Columbia Rd.Grand Forks, ND 58201


    Pay Range: $16.26 - $24.38



    Summary:

    The Patient Access Specialist gathers necessary insurance and demographic information from patients. The Specialist translates the information provided by the patient/guarantor into the computer system with the result of an accurate claim submission. May be responsible for some or all of the following: insurance verification, prior authorization, pre-certification, referrals, second opinion management, insurance assignments and/or workers compensation authorizations.



    Essential Job Functions:



    Receives and directs all patients, visitors and professionals, ensuring their needs are met in a timely manner. Answers telephone, routes calls and messages and communicates messages requiring immediate action/response. Checks in patients and completes copying requests according to standard operating procedure.

    Accurately registers patients by collecting and recording demographic, insurance, financial, and clinical data in the computer system. Records and collects necessary patient account documents. Collects self-pay balances, pre-payment amounts, and co-pays per guidelines, if applicable. Creates accounts for new patients and updates accounts for previous patients to ensure accurate services and account processing.

    Maintains knowledge of and complies with third-party payers' requirements for verifying insurance information, obtains authorizations/pre-certifications, and completes other activities to ensure services are billed and reimbursed appropriately. Reviews Medicare accounts for completed MSPQ.

    Schedules patient visits and/or procedures, while coordinating appointments with other departments to meet the patient/provider needs.

    Performs other duties as assigned or needed to meet the needs of the department/organization.



    Education:



  • Preferred: Associates - Healthcare



    Work Experience:



  • Preferred: A minimum of 1 year Related Experience



    Physical Demand
    s :



  • Sit: Continuously (67-100%)
  • Stand: Occasionally (5-33%)
  • Walk: Occasionally (5-33%)
  • Stoop/Bend: Occasionally (5-33%)
  • Reach: Frequently (34-66%)
  • Crawl: Not Applicable
  • Squat/Crouch/Kneel: Occasionally (5-33%)
  • Twist: Occasionally (5-33%)
  • Handle/Finger/Feel: Continuously (67-100%)
  • See: Continuously (67-100%)
  • Hear: Continuously (67-100%)



    Weight Demands:



  • Lift -Floor to Waist Level: Sedentary (Working Conditions:



  • Indoor: Continuously (67-100%)
  • Outdoor: Not Applicable
  • Extreme Temperature: Not Applicable



    Driving Requirement Definitions:




    Professional Drivers: Persons who drive as their main responsibility OR transport passengers or hazardous materials.

    Frequent Drivers: Persons whose main responsibility is not driving, but drive daily or almost daily.

    Occasional Drivers: Persons who drive from once per month to as frequently as once per week.

    Infrequent Drivers: Persons who are generally not expected to drive.


    Driving Requirement for this position:

    Infrequent Driver


    Reference ID: R4814

Salary16.26 - 24.38 Hour
Opportunity Type
Job

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