Job Description
Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Patient Services Representative in the Neurosciences Clinic at our Hyde Park campus.
In this role, the Patient Services Representative schedules medical procedures and services, creates reservations, performs preadmission, registration, discharge, and transfer processes. They provide excellent customer service, assist patients with financial and billing inquiries, and perform collection functions.
Essential Job Functions:
- Greets and registers patients upon arrival, collects patient demographics, referrals, guarantor, insurance, and other billing information.
- Verifies insurance coverage.
- Provides and explains hospital policies, including payment and credit policies, as well as appointment policies.
- Initiates problem-solving to resolve patient questions/complaints and refers escalated concerns to appropriate sources for resolution.
- Prepares various correspondence and reports, clinic consultation notes, referral letters, and other departmental correspondence; maintains correspondence files.
- Answers incoming calls and assists with general clerical duties as needed within the department.
Required Qualifications:
- High School Diploma.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, physicians, management, staff, and other customers.
- Exceptional customer service skills including the ability to use independent thinking, sound judgment, and creativity when resolving customer issues.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and effectively handle challenging situations.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Basic office skills including 35 wpm typing and 4500 keystrokes an hour.
- Ability to accurately and efficiently enter alphanumeric data on screen.
- Knowledge of basic medical terminology.
- Ability to use personal computers and select software applications including Epic.
- Successful completion of competencies related to the Cadence Scheduling system.
- Successful completion of competencies related to the Point of Service Collection policy.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associate or Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Prior experience in a practice setting preferred including in-depth knowledge of appropriate insurance protocols.
Position Details:
- Job Type/FTE: Full Time (1.0 FTE).
- Shift: 8 hour shift (Monday, Thursday, and Friday 9:00am - 5:30pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 9:30am - 6:00pm).
- Unit/Department: Neurosciences Clinic.
- CBA Code: 743 Clerical.
In this role, we anticipate that you will generally work approximately 40 hours per week. We anticipate that you will generally be scheduled to work the Day shift, from approximately 9:00am-5:30pm and will not be scheduled for on-call shifts. We anticipate you will be scheduled to work 100% at the Hyde Park campus. The days of the week that you are scheduled will be Monday - Friday.
Why Join Us
We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent, and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.
UChicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at: UChicago Medicine Career Opportunities.
UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Must comply with UChicago Medicine’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.
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