Admissions Clerk Part-time/Benefits
Summary
Registers patients in a hospital, verifying identities and insurance details while ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and maintaining high customer service standards.
- Assist patients in a high-volume area while providing excellent customer service, to ensure the patient and their family have excellent experience.
- Primarily responsible for gathering accurate information on the patient encounter for the purpose of registration in a timely and efficient manner. Ensuring all documents are completed prior to the patient transferring to the appropriate departments.
- Register all patients in accordance with DNV, HIPAA, federal and state regulatory agencies, organizational and departmental policies and procedures.
- Acknowledge all patients promptly and professionally when they arrive at the admissions desk.
- Displays consistent ability to prioritize and complete registrations in an accurate and timely manner.
- Uses patient identifiers to verify and pull up patients in EHR: date of birth and patient name, as well as last four digits of Social Security number.
- Obtains and inputs complete and accurate patient demographic information which includes verification of existing information regarding personal and employer information.
- Enters all required information related to an accident when appropriate.
- Obtains and enters correct insurance information when applicable in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Verify patient identity by confirming patient’s name and date of birth, initial armband, prior to placing arm band on each patient.
- Gathers information needed from Medicare patients to complete MSPQ correctly.