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Bayhealth

Patient Access Supervisor

Bayhealth, Milford, Delaware, United States, 19963

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Base pay range $53,477.00/yr - $80,205.00/yr

Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, as well as a stand‑alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid Emergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton. We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex Counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Benefits

Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans

Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision

Disability and Life Insurance options

On Site Child Care

Educational Reimbursement

Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts

Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more!

Location:

Sussex Campus Hospital

Status:

Full Time 80 Hours

Shift:

Nights

Salary Range:

$53,476.80 – $80,204.80 yearly

General Summary Under the direction of the Manager, the Supervisor performs day‑to‑day oversight of front‑end revenue cycle functions including Financial Counseling, Insurance Verification, Scheduling, and Patient Access. Serves as a staff leader and technical expert for revenue cycle functions by identifying and providing training needs, resolving work‑related issues and technical problems. Monitors, tracks, and adjusts staff workflow based upon key performance indicators.

Responsibilities

Managerial:

Serves as a mentor and role model for fellow members through demonstrating an outstanding work ethic. Oversees the daily activities in the department to facilitate consistent and effective levels of productivity. Empowers staff to be proactive in identifying problems and developing/recommending solutions. Collaborates with colleagues, other managers, and supervisors to solve cross‑functional departmental issues and conflicts. Independently recognizes and evaluates situations for appropriate escalation. Schedules shifts according to budget to provide adequate department coverage. Completes payroll, staff evaluations, and other paperwork in a timely manner. Responds to emerging issues and reports trends and process issues to department management. Offers proactive suggestions to provide continuous performance improvement. Supervise daily operations of assigned area, including daily performance reports.

Patient Experience:

Holds staff accountable for following scripting rules and established service excellence standards. Acts in accordance with Bayhealth values when interacting with patients, visitors, guests, and Bayhealth colleagues, and follows scripting guidelines. Actively contributes to a positive patient experience and maintains excellent relationships with all organizational and community providers. Manages escalating issues with patients. Manages and ensures achievement of patient satisfaction goals to its highest level and predetermined by management. As needed: answers patient calls and addresses accordingly. Collects full patient demographics/ confirms demographics. Collects and verifies patient coverage. Determines payment responsibility and collects upfront. Checks eligibility and updates patient’s financial obligation. When applicable, confirms visits with patients prior to their date of service. Ensures referrals are in place and authorizations are accurate prior to services being rendered.

Account Management:

Establishes team and individual objectives and performance standards. Reviews staff accuracy and quality on an ongoing basis and completes individual monthly scorecards. Manages department work queues and expedites necessary corrections to ensure clean claims. Provides real‑time feedback regarding performance and errors. Consistently meets departmental collection goals and accurately follows cash drawer balancing procedures. Responds timely to requests or inquiries about accounts from other departments. Collects new documents regarding patient demographic, referral (if appropriate), pre‑authorization forms or any medical charts and medicines as per other requirements.

Regulatory Compliance:

Abides by Joint Commission, CMS, EMTALA, HIPAA, and other regulatory standards. Ensures required documents are scanned into the system in a timely and accurate manner. Ensures team members offer patients mandated copies of the Notice of Privacy Policies, Patient Rights and Responsibilities, Advanced Directives, and other identified required documents. Participates in continuous compliance monitoring of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) questionnaire to ensure that the practice meets all regulatory requirements and industry best practice.

Continuing Education:

Conducts monthly staff meetings and prepares agendas, notes, handouts, as well as timely minutes. Assumes responsibility to ensure team member’s understanding and application of the presented materials. Coordinates and conducts systems or process training for all team members, as needed. Actively contributes to updating and maintaining department training materials. Ensures that staff are current with relevant governmental and third-party payer billing requirements.

Disaster Preparedness and System Downtime:

Ensures team members are educated on emergency management processes and procedures specific to that unit. Responds to disaster and mass casualty situations in a calm and appropriate fashion. Maintains current team member contact information and disaster/downtime materials. Demonstrates a proficiency in the manual registration and communication processes used during system downtime. Understands and applies organizational and departmental policies and procedures, as related to assigned duties.

All other duties as assigned within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience

Education: High School Diploma or GED

Credential(s): None Required

Experience: Three years’ experience in Patient Access (or Billing) in an acute care facility

Preferred Experience Prior supervisor experience in Patient Access (or Billing) in an acute care facility and/or experience in a healthcare setting. Four (4) years combined experience in relevant field.

Preferred Education, Credential(s) and Experience

Education: Associate Degree Certificate Program Business Administration Business or Associate’s Degree in Healthcare related field. Or certificate program in Healthcare related field.

Credential(s): Certified Healthcare Access Associate Certification related to the position, if applicable.

Experience: (None specified)

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Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type Full-time

Job function Administrative

Industries Hospitals and Health Care

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