Receptionist Job at Wisconsin Staffing in Janesville

Job Title

Overview: Individual who acts as the central point of communication among patients, partners, and providers; responsible for providing front line activities to include scheduling, registration, cash handling, and overall support services to patients and guests.

Responsibilities:

Clerical:

• Answers incoming telephone calls, determines purpose of callers, and forwards calls to appropriate personnel and routes Epic Messages to nursing and provider as appropriate.
• Retrieves messages from voice mail and forwards to appropriate personnel.
• Answers questions about organization, physicians, and available services, providing callers with address, directions, and other information as appropriate.
• Welcomes on-site visitors, determines nature of business, and announces visitors to appropriate personnel.
• Monitors visitor access and issues passes when required.
• Receives, sorts, and routes mail, and maintains and routes publications.
• Orders, receives, and maintains office supplies.
• Maintains fax machines, assists users, sends faxes, and retrieves and routes incoming faxes.
• Creates and prints fax cover sheets, memos, correspondence, reports, and other documents when necessary.
• Performs other clerical duties as needed.

Epic Scheduling and Registration:

• Schedules patient appointments.
• Responsible for EMR Electronic Medical Records registration check-in processes in Epic. Loads, verifies, and updates patient demographics.
• Scans, loads, and verifies insurance coverage.
• Collects signed HIPAA and Consent for Treatment documents, updates the interactive face sheet and sends documents to Medical Records for scanning.
• Reviews all Alerts in Epic and refers patient to a PFC when necessary.
• Collects co-payments and other self-pay obligations when required and post in Epic when registering patient.
• Provides patient with an estimated self-pay obligation when appropriate.
• Performs cashiering functions online payment posting within Epic.
• Processes payments and deposits by adhering to the systems Cash Handling Policy.
• Completes daily closing report and balances their individual cash drawer at the end of each day.
• Performs petty cash count in and out daily and records appropriately.
• Assists patients with MyChart signup and activation.
• Replies to MyChart messages in a timely manner, closing messages when complete.
• Safeguards patient privacy and confidentiality per MHS policies.
• Preps Routes daily for upcoming appointments for frontline registration.
• Reviews daily work queues and corrects identified patient registration errors.
• Utilizes Epic waitlists based on provider preference.
• Reviews and updates no-shows and cancellations for the day.

Education and Experience: High School diploma or equivalent preferred. Previous medical reception or reception...