Northern California HERC

Job Description

The Lead Patient Service Representative functions as an administrative team lead for the office. This position supports the physician and nursing staff in the delivery of health care by performing a range of administrative related tasks to maintain a smooth and efficient front office workflow. This position also assists with providing a review of Patient Service Representative administrative skills, assessing the workflow of administrative staff and monitoring staff/scheduling coverage.

• Leads huddles to supervise, assess and evaluate department workflow.
• Provides orientation and training for administrative staff.
• Provides assistance in tracking and monitoring policies and other department specific data for safeguarding organization resources and monitoring of patient refunds.
• Manages the patient care flow and assists with overseeing CS-Link message pools.
• Monitors and assesses administrative workflows, performs observations of staff skills and performance abilities using designated evaluation and observation tools, provides suggestions for opportunities to improve and assists the Supervisor with the preparation, documentation and make recommendations related to corrective actions.
• Manages the physicians? master schedules and coordinates all schedule changes, teaches staff accordingly, and makes recommendations for schedule improvements.
• Provides assistant to patients by explaining policies, procedures, or services using administrative knowledge and direct inquiries or complaints to appropriate medical staff members, administrative staff, insurance plans, and other departments to ensure satisfactory resolution.
• Assists with administrative support activities to address physician and staff concerns such as facilities management, patient billing, utilization management, quality management, risk management, human resources, and payroll.
• Handles patient and provider correspondence.
• Processes and documents referrals and authorizations for patients.
• Provides assistance in administrative quality assurance measures and adheres to all infection prevention standards.
• Assists as a chaperon when needed upon completion of the required Chaperon Training.

Qualifications

Education:

High school diploma/GED preferred.

Experience:

Five (5) years of Patient Service Representative or Medical Assistant experience in an outpatient medical office setting required.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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