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The Care Access Representative serves as the first point of contact for the patient community, staff, and physicians either over the phone or in person. This role assists in the patient registration process by scheduling outpatient appointments, entering patient information, checking appointments in and out, and transferring calls to appropriate personnel and coordinating communication between business units. This position supports primary care scheduling team.
This is a fully remote position working Monday through Friday, 8 am - 5 pm .
1. Ensures excellent customer service by consistently demonstrating a caring, positive, professional, and helpful disposition with all customer relations in a busy call center or outpatient clinical environment Meets call quality, patient registration, and scheduling standards. 2. Call center staff ensures and verifies key patient information (insurance verification, patient and guarantor demographics, etc.) is current and accurate to ensure patient safety, charging, coding, insurance processing, and billing accuracy.
Follows patient scheduling established workflows in Epic. Outpatient clinic staff will perform all pertinent registration, check in/out, scheduling, patient liability collection workflows as appropriate for their location. 3. Staff will answer telephones, directs calls, place outbound calls, and take and deliver telephone encounters in Epic. 4.
Schedules all patient appointments as required for a subset of clinics. Attempt to reschedule cancellations whenever possible. 5. Enhances co-worker satisfaction by being self-motivated, a positive communicator, team player, and a willing and approachable resource to other co-workers 6.
Actively participates in departmental QA by applying feedback, making a personal effort to reduce individual errors, and making corrections. 7. Complete other administrative work as needed Other Information Other information: Education
• High school diploma or GED required; higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement. Licensure/Certification
Professional Experience
• One (1) years of customer service and/or clerical experience Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities
Job Details Legal Employer: NCHEALTH Entity: Shared Services Organization Unit: Care Access AC UNC Health Medical Group Work Type: Full Time Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00 Salary Range: $18.48 - $25.89 per hour (Hiring Range) Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity Work Assignment Type: Remote Work
Day Job Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.
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