Admitting Clerk/Clinic- Full Time
Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center · Walsenburg, CO, United States
About The Role
Are you passionate about helping others and ensuring a seamless healthcare experience? We are looking for a friendly, detail-oriented Clinic Admitting Clerk to be the welcoming face of our medical clinics. In this key front-line position, you'll assist patients from the moment they walk through our doors—gathering important demographic and financial details, verifying insurance, and ensuring smooth admissions and discharges.
Pay: $18.58-$23.70 per hour based on experience and qualifications
Requirements
Essential Job Functions
- Scope of this job assignments includes all Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center clinics and working extended hours clinics as assigned.
- Observes professional ethics in maintaining confidential information concerning the personal, financial, medical, or employment status of a patient.
- Prepares work area for each clinic day ensuring that clinic is open to visitors, providers are given schedule for the day, phone access is updated.
- Ability to explain insurance benefits, deductibles, co-insurance, and discounts to patients at the time of service.
- Educates patients on financial policies of the facility and directs them to appropriate resources, as necessary.
- Accurately completes and explains all required forms to patients including the Conditions of Service, Patient Rights and Responsibilities, Notice of Privacy Practices, and the Patient Portal.
- Completes the Medicare Secondary Payor Questionnaire on all Medicare patients at the time of admission.
- Participate and comprehend flow of superbill throughout the clinics. Review superbill for accuracy.
- Discharge (check-out) patients by collecting required documents and scheduling follow-up appointments per provider instructions.
- Serve as back-up to Patient Scheduler; answer incoming calls in a timely and professional manner.
- Check authorizations for release of patient information for accuracy legality. Verify patient signature and release records in accordance with clinic policy, state and federal guidelines.
- Compile requested medical records; copy records and submit records for provider review and approval for release, when appropriate.
- Perform other functions as required to fulfill the expectations of the Admitting Clerk.
Minimum Required Education/Experience : High School diploma preferred. One year of general office work experience is required. Previous healthcare revenue cycle experience preferred.
Pre-Employment Knowledge, Abilities and Skills
- Ability to read and interpret documents.
- Proficient in typing, spelling, grammar and letter composition.
- Ability to operate general office equipment including computer software applications (email, etc.)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with the public, other agencies, employees and administration.
- Note : An acceptable combination of education, training and experience that provides the above knowledge, abilities and skills may be substituted.
- Necessary Special Requirements : Must obtain annual flu and any job-specific immunizations. Required to submit to a tuberculosis screening process.
Benefits
All Employees are eligible for
- Employee Assistance Program
- 403B retirement fund options (employer match after one year of employment)
- Cafeteria Meal Discount
Full and part-time positions are eligible for
- Medical benefits including telehealth options
- Dental and vision benefits
- Basic life insurance and AD&D (employer paid)
- Supplemental Life/AD&D
- Paid Time Off
- Short-term disability (employer paid)
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- · Identity protection
- Tour of Duty (Paid temporary housing for those who qualify)
If you’re considering joining our team this position will be open for a minimum of 5 days or until filled.
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