Patient Access Associate - Healthplex
Elar Cx · Springfield, Virginia, United States
Inova Franconia-Springfield Healthplex is looking for a dedicated Patient Access Associate to join the team. This role will be full-time, four 10-hour shifts per week: 12:00pm-10:30pm, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Friday. As a Patient Access Associate, you will adhere to Inova Health System's "Service Excellence" standards while admitting/scheduling patients, conducting insurance verifications and providing financial counseling.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off and paid parental leave.
Patient Access Associate Job Responsibilities:
- Patient Intake, Registration and Documentation: Registers patients, verifies identity and
insurance, collects basic information, enters demographics, and scans forms.
- Administrative & Technology Operations: Scans documents, answers phones, and uses
electronic medical record (EMR) and eligibility tools.
- Case Management Tasks: Notifies case managers and documents referrals.
- Financial Counseling: Provides estimates and collects payments.
- Insurance & Contract Coordination: Verifies basic eligibility and coverage.
- Inquiries & Patient Concerns: Answers routine questions and escalates issues.
- Kiosk: Assists with check-in and troubleshoots basic issues at patient kiosks.
- Patient Communication & Advocacy: Provides appointment and billing information and offers
empathy.
- Referrals: Documents and routes referrals.
- Scheduling: Schedules routine appointments.
- Transport: Requests routine transport and confirms details.
- Health Information Management (HIM) Coordination: Flags duplicate records and scans
identification.
- Utilization Review Coordination: Flags cases needing review.
- Compliance: Ensures compliance with HIPAA, OSHA, and other applicable federal and state
regulations.
- May perform additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: High School Diploma or GED
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1 year customer service experience or 1 year’ experience in a healthcare setting.