About the Role
As a Patient Access Representative, you will be the first point of contact for patients, ensuring they receive fast, compassionate, and accurate access to care. This is a frontline healthcare customer service role where you directly impact patient experience, hospital operations, and revenue cycle success.
Responsibilities
- Provide exceptional customer service and assist patients and families with the check-in process, working across multiple computer systems to register patients efficiently
- Answer phones and gather accurate patient information quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Build trust with patients during moments when they may be ill, anxious, confused, or overwhelmed
- Navigate diverse insurance plans and coverage details, enter demographics and medical data, collect co-pays, and provide cost estimates when applicable
- Collaborate with nurses, physicians, and care teams to ensure smooth patient flow
Requirements
- Exceptional customer service experience, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong composure and professionalism in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to multitask and prioritize quickly with high attention to detail
- Comfortable with shifting priorities based on patient needs
- Experience with patient access, medical registration, insurance verification, or front desk is a plus (but not required)
- Ability to pass a background check, drug test, and meet vaccination requirements
Skills
- Customer service
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Professionalism
- Multitasking
- Prioritization
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
- Patient registration
- Insurance verification
- Front desk operations
Location
- Ascension Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Entry-level
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $16.12 - $23.21 per hour
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- R1 is the leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems and medical groups.
- We combine the deep expertise of a global workforce of revenue cycle professionals with the industry’s most advanced technology platform, encompassing sophisticated analytics, AI, intelligent automation, and workflow orchestration.
- Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world.
- We go beyond expectations in everything we do.
- The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up.
- On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.
Equal Opportunity
- R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity.
- The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
- Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.
- If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.
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