Job Description

Job Location: New Bedford MA - New Bedford, MA 02740
Position Type: Full TimeEducation
Level: High School
Salary Range: $20.00 - $24.00 Hourly

Job Shift: Week Days
Job Category: Entry LevelShifts Available:
Monday - Friday - 40 hours per Week.
* Shift: 7:30am - 4:00 pm.
* Includes Saturday Rotations (Typically 1 Saturday per Month).
**Bilingual Preferred**
The Patient Registration Representative receive, greet, and direct the patients upon arrival and provide assistance to the patients. Monitoring their conditions within scope of own position’s responsibilities.
Are you interested in making a difference and being part of a dedicated, highly skilled professional team providing patient-centered care to a community with unique needs?
Our mission to our patients is to educate and inspire them to be a participant in their total health care.  Our mission to the community is to be a resource and leader.  Our vision is to improve the health & well-being of each patient, their families, and the greater community.
If you are interested in an exceptionally rewarding opportunity, then we would love to speak with you!
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Receive, greet, and direct patients upon arrival and provide assistance to patients monitoring their conditions within scope of own position’s responsibilities.
- Note patient’s condition and be aware of distress and notify clinical staff as appropriate.
- Registers patients upon arrival, ensuring that all demographic information is updated and accurate.
- Attends relevant trainings pertaining to Front Desk area.
- Calls various insurance companies to verify insurance eligibility and effective date of coverage.
- Confirm patient appointments.
- Collects co-pay, gives patient receipt and sends collected monies to Finance department.
- Has knowledge of use/operation of all office equipment, i.e., telephone system, fax, computer system, copy machine, etc.  Refers all malfunctions to appropriate personnel.
- Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to manage and provide the care appropriate to the ages of patients served.
- Schedules patient visits courteously.  Solves scheduling problems, issues and/or concerns utilizing the facility computer system as applicable.
- Pre registers and prints out the encounters and labels in preparation for the same day schedules.
- Scans all the insurance REVS and insurance cards in the electronic medical records.
- Takes all patients photographs for Electronic Medical Records.
New Bedford Community Health values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. New Bedford Community Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other lawfully protected status. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V

QualificationsRequired Knowledge & Skills
- Experience in computer data entry required.
- Excellent typing, telephone and interview skills required.
- Bi-lingual in Spanish or Portuguese, preferred.
- Availability to work evening sessions and occasional weekends.

Required Education& Other Credentials
I.      Education: High school diploma or GED. One year of business school or equivalent
II.     

Experience: Experience as a medical secretary in a physician practice or community health center
III.    Software/Hardware: proficient with MS Office, experience with EPIC software (EPIC, eCW).