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BH Patient Access and Scheduling Specialist101 Truman Medical Center
Lakewood Counseling Service, UH Behavioral HealthKansas City, Missouri
Patient Access Behavioral Health UHTMC
Full time
8:30AM - 5:00PM
40
Interviews patients and/or other sources to obtain demographic and financial data accessing patients to clinical and financial systems of the hospital. Communicates health benefit regulations and patient financial obligation to responsible parties. Receives requests both written and telephonic to schedule patient appointments via the electronic scheduling system. Gathers and records financial and insurance information, coordinates and makes referrals to appropriate financial resources. Validates financial and insurance information, obtains appropriate pre-certification and authorization for services, collects co-pays; completes all admission/registration paperwork.
Required:
High school diploma or equivalent required
Experience in clerical, patient contact, hospital business office or insurance
Communication skills required to interview patients and families, to gather and exchange information with other hospital staff members, physicians, third party payors and resource persons.
A minimum of one year’s experience as a Patient Access & Scheduling Representative.
Concise written communication skills and keyboarding skills required.
Preferred:
Knowledge of basic medical terminology
Previous experience as a Patient Access Representative with the organization or at another organization.
University Health (UH) has all the things you expect from a great health system. With two acute care academic hospital locations, the largest, most comprehensive behavioral health program in the area, a long-term care facility and multiple primary care practices, UH provides the highest quality care – from routine screenings to the most complicated cases. We are the primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, so our doctors are academic specialists who teach tomorrow’s doctors the very latest updates.
University Health Truman Medical Center, our downtown campus, is one of the busiest Level One Trauma Center in the city. Providers offer the full range of services with specialties in chronic disease management, high risk pregnancy and sleep disorders along with the state-of-the art Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Center.
University Health 1, located at 2101 Charlotte Street is an outpatient care and day-surgery center, with sixteen clinics including Sabates Eye Center, Plastic Surgery, Hernia repair and Medical Imaging with Siemens 3D Mammography.
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In eastern Jackson County, University Health Lakewood Medical Center sits on 300 acres of beautiful wooded grounds. We are a community hospital providing the continuum of care— from emergency medicine to a nationally-certified orthopaedic joint replacement program — as well as The Family Birthplace, We have several family medical care centers and a radiology center, Medical Imaging Eastland, that provides the latest in technology and specialized breast cancer care.
Mission
University Health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
