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Req #: 239937

Department: HARBORVIEW - ADMITTING

Posting Date: 10/11/2024

Closing Info: Closes On 10/31/2024

Salary: $3,498 - $4,852 per month

Shift: Permanent Evening Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908_a11y.pdf)

Harborview - Admitting an outstanding opportunity for a PATIENT SERVICE SPECIALIST 2 .

WORK SCHEDULE

• 100% FTE, Evenings

• 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM

• Working days will vary POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

• Serves as the primary resource for directing patient flow into Harborview Medical Center through the Admitting department

• Interact with patients, families, and nursing and medical staff to ensure that patients are identified correctly registered and roomed accurately as they enter the medical center, ensuring that the correct corresponding demographic, financial information and appropriate signed financial agreements and consents for treatment are obtained

• Verify insurance coverage; verify third party payers; coordinating patient care with other departments and outside hospitals and referring patients to Financial Counseling as necessary. PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support services such as obtaining and verifying demographic and financial information through pre-registration process, completing patient registration by obtaining consent for medical care and financial agreement, and processing patient paperwork and coordinating care with other services

• Triage patient telephone calls to clinical staff, providing information about services and interacting with patients, families, nursing, and medical staff to ensure that patients are identified correctly and registered and admitted accurately as they enter the medical center

• Access computer systems to obtain patient data and to perform clerical functions

• Find and enter new patients in the Epic ADT electronic record system

• Schedule and/or submit request for interpreters for patients

• Reception and discharge activities

• Check in patients

• Complete and enter Medicare as Secondary Payer online

• Coordinate referral process and medical records

• Obtain and verify registration information REQUIRED POSITION QUALIFICATIONS High School graduation or equivalent AND one year of healthcare, administrative, or customer service experience OR equivalent education/experience UW Medicine – Where your Impact Goes Further UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.