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Job Description
Job Id:
135
# of Openings:
2
Job Description: Performs admission duties for admitting out-patients and emergency patients to hospital services. Processes and files admission records and acts as liaison with patient family members and responsible party. OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Class III.
Job Qualifications:
- Education: High School graduate or equivalent.
- Personal Job-Related Skills: Typing speed of 45 wpm, operation of ten key adding machine/calculator. Familiar with operating personal computers and knowledge of general clerical duties.
- Licensure, Registry or Certification: None required.
- Physical and Mental Requirements: Duties of the position require intermittent walking, sitting, and standing. Some bending, stooping, and reaching is required with the lifting of items up to a weight of 40 pounds. The ability to comprehend and follow routine written or verbal instructions or directions.
- Experience: Prior Work Experience: One-year office experience in a medical setting.
- Technical Training: None required.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Secures necessary information from patients or responsible parties.
- Completes admission record based on orders from a physician.
- Obtains consent signature for admission and testing.
- Arranges for transportation of patients to the appropriate in-patient or out-patient area.
- Obtains insurance information.
- Collects on self-pay accounts.
- Reviews past records for delinquent accounts and refers matter to supervisor if necessary.
- Makes appropriate financial arrangements if patient is not insured.
- Notifies department of services or tests ordered.
- Gathers information for the Medicare secondary payer letter.
- Reviews all records for completeness and accuracy.
- Provides records in a timely manner.
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