Registrar, Financial

Job Description

Assists, provides information to and gathers registration information from patients and/or patient's relatives to process/coordinate registration, scheduling and billing.

Job Responsibility

• * Functions as representative of hospital when assisting and providing information to patients and patients' relatives.
  
  
  
  • Receives telephone calls; takes and transmits messages; answers routine inquiries and refers others to appropriate sources; confirms appointments.
  
  
• * Interviews patients to obtain and record pertinent financial and personal data.
  
  
  
  • Verifies patient eligibility; obtains appropriate identification (e.g., driver's license, medical insurance cards) and necessary referrals; and updates information as appropriate.
  
  
• * Registers patients in appropriate computer system noting no-shows and cancellations.
  
  
  
  • Enters charge-information, closes out visits and schedules visits.
  
  
• * Performs a variety of duties to ensure the proper collection of financial data and payments.
  
  
  
  • Prepares itemized bill, advises patients of total charges and records payments.
  • Collects all appropriate co-payments at time of visit.
  • Completes and reconciles insurance claim forms/payments.
  • Verifies insurance coverage, etc with third party carriers.
  
  
• * Compiles a variety of bills, receipts, logs, credit card slips, etc.
  
  
  
  • Completes batch-summary sheet and batches documents for processing in a timely/accurate manner.
  • Tracks managed care referrals.
  
  
• Performs related duties, as required.

*ADA Essential Functions

Job Qualification

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
• Prior customer service experience, required.
• Data entry skills (80 keystrokes per minute), required.
• Ability to communicate effectively.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).