About the Role
The University of Rochester is committed to Meliora - Ever Better, with shared values of equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, and accountability. This role ensures a welcoming community where all can thrive.
Responsibilities
- Performs functions associated with patient information processing for ambulatory care visits.
- Completes reception, registration, charge reconciliation, appointment scheduling, eRecord task management, In Basket management, and Telephone encounter management using EMR and patient access/revenue cycle systems.
- Ensures patient satisfaction with information processing and reception services.
- Ensures accuracy to generate a billable service for the provider.
- Performs functions accurately, efficiently, and in a customer-friendly manner.
- May act as a resource to new staff.
- Greets patients, verifies identity using two identifiers, identifies healthcare provider and referring/primary care physician, and directs patients.
- Obtains necessary signatures and identifies/assesses patients’ special needs.
- Monitors reception area to ensure patient needs are met.
- Provides warm hand-off to registration and insurance management (RIM).
- Updates patients on waiting times every 15 minutes.
- Protects patient Personal Health Information (PHI) per HIPAA regulations.
- Ensures cleanliness and order in the waiting room/lobby.
- Collects patient demographic and financial information efficiently and in a customer-oriented manner.
- Enters information into EMR and patient access/revenue cycle system.
- Requests patient e-mail address for confirmation.
- Ensures completion of all appropriate forms by patients.
- Schedules new and return visits using EMR and patient access/revenue cycle system.
- Monitors schedules and reports problems to Supervisor.
- Pre-registers patients for next visit.
- Coordinates appointments for ancillary testing or referrals.
- Follows up on missed appointments and cancellations.
- Completes correspondence and forms related to appointment scheduling.
- Schedules interpreters and outside services.
- Ensures patient satisfaction with visit prior to discharge.
- Prints After Visit Summary (AVS) at check-out when appropriate.
- May assist with provider template changes.
- Collects patient co-pays, prepares end-of-day deposits, and reconciles discrepancies.
- Answers phone in a timely and courteous manner.
- Manages incoming clinic calls and sorts calls to various providers.
- Opens telephone encounters in EMR when speaking with patients.
- Ensures routing of encounters in EMR to appropriate staff/provider.
- Coordinates outgoing calls related to major functions.
- Provides information to patients to minimize call distribution.
- Forwards calls, pages providers, and takes messages.
- Edits and corrects registration errors and completes missing registration data.
- Assists in charge reconciliation process.
- Ensures accuracy of patient schedules.
- Identifies ways to reduce follow-up, repetitive, or corrective work.
- Manages multiple processes in EMR, including In Basket messaging and referral work queue processing.
- Assesses situation urgency and determines appropriate patient routing.
- Serves as a resource for handling complaints and utilizes service recovery concepts.
- Serves as a front-line problem solver.
- May escort patients into the treatment corridor, collect height/weight, record current medications, record basic visit documentation, and obtain vital signs (competencies must be verified by clinical staff).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High School diploma and 1 year related experience in an administrative office or customer service field required or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Skills
- Medical terminology experience preferred
- Demonstrated ability to word process documents and enter data into a database preferred
- Demonstrates the ICARE values to patient, families and staff preferred
- Demonstrated skills related to achievement of customer satisfaction preferred
- Ability to act as a resource to less experienced staff preferred
Location
- 60 Corporate Woods, Brighton, New York, United States of America, 14623
Work Type
- Day Shift
Experience Level
- 1 year related experience
Education Level
- High School diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $19.15 - $25.85
About the Company
- The University of Rochester is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving an inclusive and welcoming culture to advance the University’s Mission to Learn, Discover, Heal, Create – and Make the World Ever Better.
Equal Opportunity
- The University is committed to not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, military/veteran status, national origin, race, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law (Protected Characteristics). This commitment extends to non-discrimination in the administration of our policies, admissions, employment, access, and recruitment of candidates, for all persons consistent with our values and based on applicable law.
