Admitting Clerk/Clinic- Full Time $18.58-$23.70 per hour

Pay: $18.58-$23.70 per hour based on experience and qualifications

 Are you passionate about helping others and ensuring a seamless healthcare experience? We are looking for a friendly, detail-oriented Clinic Admitting Clerk to be the welcoming face of our medical clinics. In this key front-line position, you'll assist patients from the moment they walk through our doors—gathering important demographic and financial details, verifying insurance, and ensuring smooth admissions and discharges. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Scope of this job assignments includes all Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center clinics and working extended hours clinics as assigned.

• Observes professional ethics in maintaining confidential information concerning the personal, financial, medical, or employment status of a patient.

• Prepares work area for each clinic day ensuring that clinic is open to visitors, providers are given schedule for the day, phone access is updated. 

• Ability to explain insurance benefits, deductibles, co-insurance, and discounts to patients at the time of service.

• Educates patients on financial policies of the facility and directs them to appropriate resources, as necessary.

• Accurately completes and explains all required forms to patients including the Conditions of Service, Patient Rights and Responsibilities, Notice of Privacy Practices, and the Patient Portal.

• Completes the Medicare Secondary Payor Questionnaire on all Medicare patients at the time of admission.

• Participate and comprehend flow of superbill throughout the clinics. Review superbill for accuracy.

• Discharge (check-out) patients by collecting required documents and scheduling follow-up appointments per provider instructions.

• Serve as back-up to Patient Scheduler; answer incoming calls in a timely and professional manner.

• Check authorizations for release of patient information for accuracy legality. Verify patient signature and release records in accordance with clinic policy, state and federal guidelines.

• Compile requested medical records; copy records and submit records for provider review and approval for release, when appropriate.

• Perform other functions as required to fulfill the expectations of the Admitting Clerk.

Minimum Required Education/Experience: High School diploma preferred.  One year of general office work experience is required. Previous healthcare revenue cycle experience preferred. 

Pre-Employment Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: 

• Ability to read and interpret documents.

• Proficient in typing, spelling, grammar and letter composition.

• Ability to operate general office equipment including computer software applications (email, etc.)

• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with the public, other agencies, employees and administration.

Note: An acceptable combination of education, training and experience that provides the above knowledge, abilities and skills may be substituted.

Necessary Special Requirements: Must obtain annual flu and Covid vaccination and any job-specific immunizations. Required to submit to a tuberculosis screening process.

 Benefits:

All Employees are eligible for:

· Employee Assistance Program

· 403B retirement fund options (employer match after one year of employment)

· Cafeteria Meal Discount

Full and part-time positions are eligible for:

· Medical benefits including telehealth options

· Dental and vision benefits

· Basic life insurance and AD&D (employer paid)

· Supplemental Life/AD&D

· Paid Time Off

· Short-term disability (employer paid)

· Critical Illness Insurance

· Accident Insurance

· Legal Insurance

· Identity protection

· Tour of Duty (Paid temporary housing for those who qualify)

If you’re considering joining our team this position will be open for a minimum of 5 days or until filled.