Job Description
Description
Patient Coordinator - Staten Island - Full Time - Days - OFFSITE
The Offsite Patient Coordinator greets and establishes first contact with patients. This individual confirms and updates patient demographics, performs scheduling and verifies insurance as necessary to ensure that patients have appropriate insurance for physician they are seeing.
Responsibilities
1. Greets patients either in person or via telephone, and update their insurance/demographics in the practice management system.
2. Assures that physician accepts insurance that patients present with. If not already done prior to visit, verify insurance prior to patients arrival or at minimum at time of arrival before visit.
3. Communicate with appropriate staff regarding patients arrival, and ensure that patients medical record is available for physician.
4. Processes/updates HIPAA-related paperwork and other institutional forms as necessary.