Patient Liaison (Full Time, Onalaska)

Full job description

Love + medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here. If you’re looking for a job to love, apply today.

Schedule Weekly Hours:

Join us! We are seeking a motivated and flexible candidate with a strong customer service background who is energized by working in a fast-paced environment as a Patient Liaison !

What you will get:

• Starting pay of $16.77/hour + more for experience!

• Support to grow in your career with access to our Career Development Center and Tuition Investment Program

• Top-rated retirement plan and healthcare benefits

• Departmental leadership that supports you as you do your best work.

• Work/Life balance to love what you do and where you live.

What's Available:

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week)

• Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Department: Optometry

• Location: Onalaska, WI (Onalaska Clinic)
  
  

Schedule Example:

• Monday-Friday - hours between 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Typically this will rotate who will stay late Thursday evenings as they close at 7pm.

What you will do:

• Provide LOVE + MEDICINE to our patients through providing the best first/last impressions with top-level customer service.

• Partner with a team of providers, medical professionals, and managers who are here to support your success and that of our patients in their health journeys.

What you need:

• High School Diploma or equivalency

• 1 year experience in an office setting requiring customer service responsibilities and computer competency in Microsoft Windows.

• Optometry departments require patient liaisons to be a Certified Patient Service Specialist (CPSS) within 18 months of hire date.

Gundersen Health System is healthcare for neighbors, by neighbors. While we call La Crosse home, our system has 7 hospitals and 65 clinics in neighboring communities. Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care combined with the right amount of love. We call it Love + Medicine and it’s who we are.

Job Description:

The Patient Liaison works as a team member to assist internal and external customers assuring accurate and complete registration, scheduling appointments, demographic information, insurance coverage, collecting payments and monitoring customer satisfaction.

Major Responsibilities:
1. Represents Gundersen Health System's high standards for customer service in all telephone and face-to-face encounters through courteous, patient and respectful conduct and conversation.
2. Communicates effectively with patients, family members and Gundersen Health System staff to schedule appointments, admissions, surgeries, tests and procedures utilizing good customer service skills. Provides information and instruction in a confidential manner to prepare patients for current and future appointments. Uses CWS (clinical workstation) to respond to the requests of MD, nurses, MA's to create, update and/or print patient's protected health information to assist with completion of documentation.
3. Responsible to ensure accurate and complete data for promptly registering patients, gathering, verifying and up-dating demographics, as well as insurance and benefit information to drive a timely billing process for our patients.
4. Demonstrates and maintains successful completion of defined core competencies in computer skills related to patient registration and appointment scheduling, insurance, cash collection and department computerized schedules.
5. Works within the organizational financial guidelines to collect payment and assist customers with financial need for payment of services, utilizing appropriate resources.
6. Obtains appropriate signatures on forms relating to registration, billing, and patient care, meeting all compliance regulations and requirements.
7. Assists in obtaining estimates for patient responsibility and notifies guarantors prior to treatment according to published organizational standards.
8. Keeps current through periodic in-service on registration policies, procedures, insurance guidelines and other information related to position.
9. Solicits and responds to customer complaints/concerns either in writing or verbally, using appropriate resources.
10. Views, documents, or prints from the patients electronic health record to assist with coordination of patient care.
11. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Education and Learning:
REQUIRED
High School Diploma or equivalency

Work Experience:
REQUIRED
1 year experience in an office setting requiring customer service responsibilities and computer competency in Microsoft Windows.


DESIRED
1 year experience in a medical facility setting and/or extensive customer service experience.

License and Certifications:
REQUIRED
Optometry departments require patient liaisons to be a Certified Patient Service Specialist (CPSS) within 18 months of hire date.

Age Specific Population Served:
Infant (less than 1 year)
Pediatric (1 - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 - 17 years)
Adult (18 - 64 years)
Geriatric (65 years & older)



OSHA Category:
Category II - Some (but not all) employees in this job title may have a reasonably anticipated risk of occupational exposure to blood and/or other potentially infectious materials, usually by location or specific departments.



Environmental Conditions:
Exposed to infectious diseases.

Physical Requirements/Demands Of The Position:
Sitting Continually (67-100% or 8 hours)
Static Standing Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Walking/Standing Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Stooping/Bending Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Reaching - Shoulder Level Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Reaching - Below Shoulder Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Reaching - Above Shoulder Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Repetitive Actions - Fine Manipulation Frequently (34-66% or 5.5 hours)

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Equal Opportunity Employer