[Hiring] Patient Accounts Representative @Saint Luke's Health System

Role Description

Saint Luke’s in Kansas City is seeking a Patient Accounts Representative to join our team. You will perform a variety of functions related to managing accounts, customer service, and troubleshooting while following established processes and policies for billing and reimbursement. This position is a call center environment, working remotely in the Kansas City area.

Shift Details:

• Monday- Friday 8:30am-5:00pm

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for answering inbound patient calls
• Answer patient emails in Electronic Medical Record system
• Making outbound collection calls to patients to obtain information needed to collect payment
• Provide price estimates for patients
• Process credit card payments
• Establish payment plans with patients and complete referral to extended payment plan vendor when applicable
• Identify patients needing financial assistance, explain financial assistance process and additional documents needed
• Research and troubleshoot issues related to patient balances
• Serve as liaison between patient and other departments as needed
• Process incoming mail and faxes
• Process accounts within a work queue in the Electronic Medical Record system and take action as appropriate

In SBO will also:

• Perform straightforward coding (i.e. Review patient charts for billing implications or referrals)
• Meet department productivity and quality metric
• Identify opportunities and report trends to improve patient satisfaction and workflow efficiencies by identifying reasons for patient calls that could have been prevented by education upstream in the process or practice management programming solutions.

We are looking for someone with excellent customer service skills. The ideal candidate has strong computer and critical thinking skills and can multitask. Comfortable working in a call center environment.

Qualifications

• Less than 1 year of applicable experience
• Diploma

Benefits

• Medical health plans
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Retirement contributions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Details

• Full Time
• Day (United States of America)