Patient Service Specialist

Overview

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? At Concentra, you will be a vital member of our patient care team and play a crucial role in providing exceptional care to our patients. Our mission is to improve the health of America's workforce, one patient at a time. Join us at Concentra and see how your clinical competency and compassion can make a meaningful difference in the lives of the patients you serve.

The Patient Service Specialist performs complex administrative duties including but not limited to patient registration, patient scheduling, providing excellent customer service to clients, and management of multi-line phone system. This role requires a general knowledge of various systems and/or procedures. This position ensures that every patient is treated with quality clinical care and is provided a welcoming and respectful experience. This position will also include driving duties in transporting visitors and/or documents as needed and ensuring that every visitor, customer, and colleague is treated with quality, welcoming, and respectful customer service.

Responsibilities

Patient Service Specialist Duties

• Greet patients and visitors
• Communicate wait times to patients and direct them accordingly
• Obtain authorization, as needed, to process patients for services
• Check in patients using appropriate patient management system
• Explain all required forms to patients and ensure proper completion of all paperwork
• Answer incoming telephone lines and direct the caller accordingly
• Contact patients regarding appointment reminders, rescheduling, or cancellations
• Check out patients in appropriate patient management system and distribute records
• File paperwork, medical records, and correspondence
• Maintain inventory of office supplies and printed forms
• Manage dissemination of all paperwork to outside parties including non-injury, custody, and control forms
• Follow HIPAA guidelines and safety rules
• Attend center staff meetings
• Participate in initial and ongoing training as required
• Complete processing of patient referrals including accurate checkout, paperwork processing, patient education, and communication with Client Support Group
• Assist Center Operations Director or other leader in managing daily administrative functions
• Assist in maintaining a neat, clean, and orderly appearance throughout the facility
• Use employer reporting tool to scan and distribute employer results and paperwork
• Review clinician transcriptions and enter applicable charges via internal charge entry system.
• Perform some medical assistant duties such as breath alcohol tests, drug screens, TB skin test reads and/or other duties as assigned/approved by medical leadership

Driver Duties

• Drives motor vehicle to transport office personnel, visitors, or documents
• Use good judgement and safe driving skills while being courteous to customers
• Communicate with the COD and/or ACOD to report any problems or delays
• Perform miscellaneous errands such as carrying mail to or from post office
• Maintain vehicle’s appearance and notify the COD and/or ACOD if the vehicle requires servicing
• Record all transports with mileage
• Complete daily and monthly vehicle checklists
• Perform lite vehicle maintenance

Qualifications

 

Education/Credentials:

High School Diploma or GED

Education Details:

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Must have a valid license to operate motor vehicle as well as a clean driving record.

Must meet licensing requirements of work state.

Job-Related Experience:

Customarily has at least the following experience: 6 months to 1 year

Working knowledge of state-specific occupational medicine requirements preferred

Job-Related Skills/Competencies

• Concentra Core Competencies of Service Mentality, Attention to Detail, Sense of Urgency, Initiative and Flexibility
• Ability to make decisions or solve problems by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions
• Outstanding customer service skills as well as the ability to deal with people in a manner which shows tact and professionalism
• The ability to properly handle sensitive and confidential information (including HIPAA and PHI) in accordance with federal and state laws and company policies
• Demonstrated effective communication and interaction with employers, patients, providers, and other employees
• Demonstrated ability to maintain working relationship with all levels of employees
• Demonstrated excellent customer service skills
• Demonstrated intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office such as Word, Excel, Outlook and entry of data into various systems/applications
• Ability to perform all aspects of front office operations
• Drive to achieve or exceed established service standards
• Time management skills
• Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish a safe work environment

Physical/Mental Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is continuously sitting for extended periods, frequently to occasionally standing and walking. May continuously utilize hands and fingers for typing, flex or extend wrist to perform other job-related tasks. The employee is continuously required to use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate PC, office equipment and/or other equipment. Due to the nature of this position, an employee can expect heavy computer usage requiring wrist flexion/extension for at least 8 hours per day. Occasional stooping, pushing, pulling, reaching or overhead reaching, and climbing in the performance of work. The ability to hear and understand with clarity and detect sound, and have conversations with staff, customers, management, etc.

Hearing within the acceptable range for telephone and in-person contacts. Normal or corrected vision to acceptable levels for office work. The ability to lift/carry up to 10 pounds.

The mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. In this position, the employee may have imposed pressure on a routine and frequent basis to meet various deadlines, contact with people in stressful and unpredictable situations and to handle confidential and sensitive information and situations with care.

 

Additional Data

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Medical, Vision, Prescription, Telehealth, & Dental Plans
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Extended Illness Days Offered
• Colleague Referral Bonus Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• Employee Discounts

This job requires access to confidential and critical information, requiring ongoing discretion and secure information management.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Concentra is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination, and will make decisions regarding employment opportunities, including hiring, promotion and advancement, without regard to the following characteristics: race, color, national origin, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local fair employment practice laws.