Part-Time
Patient Access Specialist
Posted on 11/23/2025
Ensemble Health Partners
5,001-10,000 employees
End-to-end revenue cycle management for hospitals
Compensation Overview
$16.50/hr
Ontario, OH, USA
In Person
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- 1+ years of customer service experience
- High School Diploma/GED Required
- CRCR Certification required within 9 months of hire (Company Paid)
- Patient Access staff are responsible for assigning accurate MRNs, completing medical necessity / compliance checks, providing proper patient instructions, collecting insurance information, receiving, and processing physician orders, and utilizing an overlay tool while providing excellent customer service as measured by Press Ganey.
- Operates the telephone switchboard to relay incoming, outgoing, and inter-office calls as applicable.
- Adhere to policies and provide excellent customer service in these interactions with the appropriate level of compassion.
- Patient Access staff will be held accountable for point of service goals as assigned.
- Patient Access staff are responsible for the utilization of quality auditing and reporting systems to ensure accounts are corrected. These activities may include accounts for other employees, departments, and facilities. Conducts audits of accounts and assures that all forms are completed accurate, timely to meet audit standards and provides statistical data to Patient Access leadership.
- Patient Access Staff are responsible for the pre-registration of patient accounts prior to patient visits. This may include inbound and outbound calling to obtain demographic, insurance, and other patient information including the patient financial liabilities including collecting point of service collections as well as past due balances including payment plan options.
- The Patient Access Staff explains general consent for treatment forms to the patient/guarantor/legal guardian, obtains necessary signatures and witness’s name. Explains and distributes patient education documents, such as Important Message from Medicare, Important Message from Tricare, Observation Forms, MOON form, Consent forms, and all forms implemented for future services.
- Reviews eligibility responses in insurance verification system and appropriately selects the applicable insurance plan code, enters benefit data into system to support POS (Point of Service Collections) and billing processes to assist with a clean claim rate.
- Responsible for accurately screening of medical necessity using the Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN) software to inform Medicare patients of possible non-payment of test by Medicare and distribution of the ABN as appropriate. Responsible for distribution and documentation of other designated forms and pamphlets.
Ensemble Health Partners provides end-to-end revenue cycle management for hospitals and health systems. It handles the entire process from patient intake to final payment, with teams and technology embedded into the provider's operations and a revenue model tied to performance improvements. The company uses its proprietary EIQ platform (analytics, AI, and workflow automation) to optimize revenue cycle processes, reduce insurance denials, and speed cash collection, managing more than $39 billion in net patient revenue. Its approach differentiates it by being a true managed-services partner with full accountability for financial outcomes and a track record of meeting initial client goals. The overarching goal is to improve healthcare providers’ financial performance so they can focus on patient care.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Huntersville, North Carolina
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cohere partnership deploys agentic AI, automating 40% of AR follow-ups.
- Mary Washington Healthcare partnership expands mid-market client base in 2024.
- Microsoft Azure enhances EIQ with generative AI, securing eight patents.
What critics are saying
- R1 RCM undercuts pricing by 20-30%, eroding mid-market clients by Q1 2026.
- Optum360's DeepMind AI captures large contracts, reducing AR days faster.
- Cohere synthetic data leaks trigger $50M fines and Carilion exodus by Feb 2026.
What makes Ensemble Health Partners unique
- EIQ platform integrates AI for denial reduction and cash acceleration.
- Fixed-rate collections with performance incentives drive client accountability.
- End-to-end RCM embeds teams into client operations for full ownership.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Professional Development Budget
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Flexible Work Hours
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Company News
Ensemble, a US revenue cycle management services provider, has partnered with enterprise AI company Cohere to build the healthcare industry's first revenue cycle management-native large language model. The companies are creating a custom model informed by Ensemble's operational expertise and data, designed to handle complex healthcare financial operations more accurately than general-purpose LLMs. The model will be embedded into AI agents managing processes from patient intake to account resolution. Unlike standard approaches that rely on prompt engineering, this system is fine-tuned on real RCM tasks and trained using synthetic datasets in a HIPAA-compliant environment, without using identifiable patient data. The solution aims to enhance existing electronic health record systems by providing better context and guidance for navigating payer requirements whilst reducing administrative burden for healthcare providers.
The article discusses the transformative impact of technology on healthcare, highlighting Ensemble Health's billion-dollar valuation amid a shift towards AI, telehealth, and extended reality. AI advancements promise personalized medicine, while telehealth evolves with Remote Patient Monitoring. The metaverse emerges as a tool for training and therapy. Challenges include data privacy, interoperability, and cybersecurity. The goal is a more personalized, accessible, and proactive healthcare system.
What You Should Know:– Ensemble, a leading provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM), has partnered with Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company, to introduce the first fully integrated agentic AI platform for revenue cycle orchestration in healthcare.– This collaboration merges Ensemble’s decade-long RCM expertise with Cohere’s enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to deliver faster, smarter, and more secure financial operations for hospitals and health systems.Advancing Revenue Cycle Intelligence with Secure, Scalable AI IntegrationEnsemble has integrated Cohere’s enterprise-grade AI models—trained on a decade of Ensemble’s high-performing revenue cycle outcomes—throughout its entire RCM infrastructure. This collaboration represents the inaugural healthcare deployment of Cohere’s North platform, establishing a new benchmark for secure, scalable agentic AI within clinical financial operations, all while ensuring full HIPAA compliance and data integrity.In contrast to traditional, narrowly focused AI tools, Ensemble and Cohere have co-engineered a horizontally deployed network of reasoning-based agents. These AI agents leverage contextual data analysis and adaptive decision-making frameworks to resolve multifaceted revenue cycle challenges, particularly in insurance reimbursement, without depending on inflexible rule sets.A human-in-the-loop architecture reinforces the platform’s operational integrity, embedding rigorous quality assurance mechanisms across every decision layer. Currently, this system autonomously manages more than 40% of accounts receivable (AR) follow-up tasks—previously handled manually—and is on track to expand into additional complex workflows, including prior authorization, utilization management, clinical coding, and denial prevention.The broader AI ecosystem features:• Generative AI trained on clinical documentation to enhance the accuracy and speed of denial appeals• Conversational AI modules designed to streamline patient interactions and reduce call resolution time• Predictive analytics tools for early identification of denial risks• Agent assistants that augment frontline staff productivityThese technologies are already delivering tangible operational benefits, including:• A 40% increase in the speed of denial appeal submissions• A 15% uplift in appeal overturn rates• A 35% reduction in patient call resolution times• Improved overall patient satisfaction metricsCohere was selected for its proven capacity to implement secure AI solutions in highly regulated environments. Its North infrastructure ensures seamless, secure integration across diverse platforms—including provider host systems, payer portals, and internal administrative tools—while upholding the highest standards of data privacy and system interoperability.Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere, remarked, “Working with Ensemble to bring secure AI into healthcare—where data privacy is a deeply personal issue—is an incredible opportunity. By working together, we’re setting a new standard for tackling some of healthcare’s toughest administrative challenges and showing how agentic AI makes a real-world difference.”
Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ensemble, the partner of choice for end-to-end revenue cycle management for mid-sized to large healthcare organizations, has been named a Leader in Everest Group’s RCM Operations PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024. According to the assessment, Ensemble is the highest-designated leader for market impact reflecting not only the strength of its vision, expertise and approach to technology, but the unmatched value delivered at scale to a rapidly growing and highly satisfied client base. “This latest recognition validates our commitment to client satisfaction, delivering a frictionless revenue cycle and providing significant value for leading healthcare systems across the country,” said Ensemble Founder, President and CEO Judson Ivy. “The healthcare revenue cycle is growing increasingly more complex due to changing regulations, reimbursement requirements and rapid shifts in payer policy. We are proud to be recognized as a leader for our excellence in improving financial outcomes and patient experiences so providers can hyper-focus on delivering high-quality care to their patients and communities.” According to Everest Group, Ensemble’s strengths include value delivered, vision and strategy, innovation and investments and scope of services offered
Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Ensemble, the market leader in revenue cycle management for mid-sized to large healthcare organizations, announced today that is has been selected by Mary Washington Healthcare (MWHC) as their strategic revenue cycle management partner.