Patient Registrar – Multispecialty Practice – Days

Patient Registrar – Multispecialty Practice – Days

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED

Responsibilities

• Greet and register patients in a tactful and courteous manner. Obtains all pertinent patient demographic and insurance information and enters into appropriate computer system.
• Pre-register patients
• Schedule and maintains daily appointments.
• Request patient’s charts from Health Information and or physician’s files and requests various patients’ NYPH medical record prior to appointment. Reviews chart to insure necessary test results and other relevant information is recorded. Requests test results from appropriate areas as needed. Sends charts to Health Information to be refilled and sends charts back to physician’s offices to be filed after completion.
• Retrieve laboratory and radiographic data from clinic information system and laboratories.
• Prepare all pertinent paperwork including authorizations, physician requisitions, diagnostics testing requisitions and transportation reimbursements. Verifies and documents third party eligibility; determines patient liability and obtains authorizations.
• Notify patient of financial obligation for elective admissions and establishes payment arrangements according to financial policies prior to date of service.
• Counsel patient regarding payment options, Medicaid eligibility, and determines qualifications for charity care.
• Interface with MEU and Social Services to determine Medicaid eligibility; informs patients of documents required initiating Medicaid applications.
• Collect co-payments and fees and issues receipts to patients, as appropriate. Prepares receipts for both hospital and professional patient payments. Maintains record of all financial transactions and reconciles daily cash collection.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a busy practice or other healthcare setting.
• EPIC
• Knowledge of health insurance benefit requirements.