Administrative Assistant - FT
25 days ago
Del Rio
Job DescriptionDescription: Summary Are you looking for an exciting career in emergency medicine? Exceptional Emergency Center offers a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with top-tier benefits, competitive pay, and amazing incentives! Join a team that values compassion, excellence, and teamwork while providing high-quality emergency care. The Administrative Assistant (AA) will be responsible for performing all functions necessary to maintain the efficient workflow of all front desk receptionist duties. Essential Duties and Responsibilities • Stand and greet all patients as they arrive in a friendly, courteous, and professional manner, • Demonstrate and maintain a working knowledge of customer service principles, and departmental expectations regarding customer service, • Routinely check and respond to work e-mail, • Document in the computer system all necessary demographic, insurance, and financial information, • Maintain patient charts, including creating new files, scanning files into the computer system, filing, shifting, and breaking down charts, • Responsible for photocopying records and documents for billing purposes, • Perform clerical duties, including mail delivery, faxing, copying, and scanning, • Responsible for answering, screening, and directing incoming phone calls, • Collect co-payments or other applicable financial payments, • Performs exit interviews with all patients, • Facilitate daily deposits and perform cash reconciliations, • Maintain daily financial log including documenting patient financial class, amount owed, amount collected, and scanning completion, • Maintain daily patient log including documenting chief complaint, time and date of entry, time and date of exit, services rendered, and discharge/transfer information, • Document patient volumes for the previous day, • Maintain and compile reports and informational packets for distribution, • Perform any job related to the registration process, • Participate in performance improvement activities as necessary, • Maintain confidentiality of patient related issues and adhering to all HIPAA rules and regulations., • Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, • Treat all patients, visitors, and staff members fairly and with respect and strive to make them comfortable by offering refreshments., • Utilize effective communication methods in an accurate, courteous, and professional manner., • Explain all procedures, treatments, and care while remaining aware of language barriers, • Ensure personal appearance is business casual and professional at all times, • Responsible for wearing Emergency Center identification badge at all times which must be visible and above the waistline, • Attend all Emergency Center required meetings and in-service education, • Remain flexible in staffing patterns and resolution of staffing conflicts; participates in temporary assignments, • Compliance with attendance standards, • High school diploma or equivalent, • 1-3 years office experience in a health care setting preferred, • Previous customer service experience preferred, • Must be able to effectively communicate with customers both in person, and over the telephone, • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization, • Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance, • NoneRequirements: