Job: Front Desk Administrator
Job Description
Job Type: Full time, Hourly
Wage: $18-$22/hr.
Location: Salida, CO.
Job Description:
Company Description
Integrated Dermatology is a leading national Dermatology practice that acquires and partners with Dermatology practices across the United States. The culture at IDG is a reflection of its people. Our environment is filled with hard-working, dynamic individuals who come together to ensure the success of our partner Dermatologists.
Job Description
Our busy Dermatology practice is looking for a Front Desk Administrator to join our team!
Duties:
- Serves patients by greeting and helping them, scheduling appointments, and maintaining records and accounts
- Welcomes patients and visitors in person or on the telephone and answering or referring inquiries
- Optimizes patients’ satisfaction, provider time, and treatment room utilization by scheduling appointments in person or by telephone
- Keeps patient appointments on schedule by notifying clinical staff of patient’s arrival, reviewing service delivery compared to schedule, and reminding clinic staff of service delays
- Comforts patients by anticipating patients’ anxieties, answering patients’ questions, and maintaining the reception area
- Ensures availability of treatment information by filing and retrieving patient records
- Maintains patient accounts by obtaining, recording, and updating personal and financial information
- Obtains revenue by recording and updating financial information, recording, and collecting patient co-pays and account balances
- Coordinates with Insurance companies, referring medical offices and Pathology Labs
- Protects patients’ rights by maintaining confidentiality of medical, personal, and financial information
- Maintains operations by following policies and procedures, reporting needed changes
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed Attains and maintains mastery level knowledge of all assigned medical practices, including provider/clinic schedules, patient scheduling preferences, and scope of services offered
- Performs duties independently, and in collaboration with team, asking for assistance from peers and/or supervisors as needed
- Obtains required information such as insurance cards and driver’s licenses; obtains consent to treat, releases of information, and other required paperwork from 100% of patients
- Takes ownership of the patient check in process, verifies appointments via EHR practice management system; explains next steps in patient appointment flow
- Averages a minimum of 95% registration accuracy; enters information consistently following established guidelines; information is not only accurate, but also consistently uniform (i.e. uses upper- and lower-case type appropriately, enters complete phone numbers, etc.)
- Handles patients and others with tact; utilizes de-escalation techniques and knows when to disengage and ask for management
Qualifications:
- Exceptional customer service and phone etiquette
- Ability to maintain effective and organized systems to ensure timely patient flow
- Excellent computer skills
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position (80%) of the time
Job Type: Full-time 7:45am – 5:15pm 4 days per week
Experience:
- 1+ year(s) of Front Desk Administrative experience (required)
- Knowledge of medical terminology, HIPAA, and OSHA regulation (preferred) EMR experience (preferred))
- Dermatology experience (preferred)
Education: High school diploma or equivalent (required)
Certifications/Licenses: N/A
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines Integrated Dermatology and it's entities provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.