Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois · 14 hours ago
Receptionist, Dermatology
Rockford, IL
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelMercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois is a healthcare provider seeking a Receptionist for their Dermatology department. The role involves acting as the central point of communication among patients, partners, and providers, managing scheduling, registration, and cash handling to support patients and guests effectively.
Health CareNon Profit
Responsibilities
Answers incoming telephone calls, determines purpose of callers, and forwards calls to appropriate personnel and routes Epic Messages to nursing and provider as appropriate
Retrieves messages from voice mail and forwards to appropriate personnel
Answers questions about organization, physicians, and available services, providing callers with address, directions, and other information as appropriate
Welcomes on-site visitors, determines nature of business, and announces visitors to appropriate personnel
Monitors visitor access and issues passes when required
Receives, sorts, and routes mail, and maintains and routes publications
Orders, receives, and maintains office supplies
Maintains fax machines, assists users, sends faxes, and retrieves and routes incoming faxes
Creates and prints fax cover sheets, memos, correspondence, reports, and other documents when necessary
Performs other clerical duties as needed
Schedules patient appointments
Responsible for EMR Electronic Medical Records registration check-in processes in Epic
Loads, verifies and updates patient demographics
Scans, loads and verifies insurance coverage
Collects signed HIPAA and Consent for Treatment documents, updates the interactive face sheet and sends documents to Medical Records for scanning
Reviews all Alerts in Epic and refers patient to a PFC when necessary
Collects co-payments and other self-pay obligations when required and post in Epic when registering patient
Provides patient with an estimated self-pay obligation when appropriate
Performs cashiering functions online payment posting within Epic
Processes payments and deposits by adhering to the systems Cash Handling Policy
Completes daily closing report and balances their individual cash drawer at the end of each day
Performs petty cash count in and out daily and records appropriately
Assist patients with MyChart signup and activation
Replies to MyChart messages in a timely manner, closing messages when complete
Safeguards patient privacy and confidentiality per MHS policies
Preps Routes daily for upcoming appointments for frontline registration
Reviews daily work queues and corrects identified patient registration errors
Utilizes Epic waitlists based on provider preference
Reviews and updates no-shows and cancellations for the day
Qualification
Required
High School diploma or equivalent
Clerical duties including answering incoming telephone calls, determining purpose of callers, and forwarding calls to appropriate personnel
Retrieving messages from voice mail and forwarding to appropriate personnel
Answering questions about organization, physicians, and available services
Welcoming on-site visitors and determining nature of business
Monitoring visitor access and issuing passes when required
Receiving, sorting, and routing mail
Ordering, receiving, and maintaining office supplies
Maintaining fax machines and assisting users
Creating and printing fax cover sheets, memos, correspondence, reports, and other documents
Scheduling patient appointments
Responsible for EMR Electronic Medical Records registration check-in processes in Epic
Loading, verifying and updating patient demographics
Scanning, loading and verifying insurance coverage
Collecting signed HIPAA and Consent for Treatment documents
Reviewing all Alerts in Epic and referring patient to a PFC when necessary
Collecting co-payments and other self-pay obligations
Providing patient with an estimated self-pay obligation
Performing cashiering functions online payment posting within Epic
Processing payments and deposits by adhering to the systems Cash Handling Policy
Completing daily closing report and balancing individual cash drawer
Performing petty cash count in and out daily and recording appropriately
Assisting patients with MyChart signup and activation
Replying to MyChart messages in a timely manner
Safeguarding patient privacy and confidentiality per MHS policies
Prepping Routes daily for upcoming appointments for frontline registration
Reviewing daily work queues and correcting identified patient registration errors
Utilizing Epic waitlists based on provider preference
Reviews and updates no-shows and cancellations for the day
Medium work exerting 10 to 25 lbs of force or lifting occasionally
Frequent sitting, handling, fingering, feeling, reaching, talking and hearing
Occasional standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling
Specific vision abilities required including frequent close vision and ability to adjust focus
Preferred
Previous Medical Reception Or Reception Experience
Benefits
Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.
Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.
Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.
Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.
Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.
Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.
Company
Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois
At Mercyhealth, our doctors, nurses and staff are committed to making lives better for our patients and their families.
Founded in 1889
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Nathan Schultz
Chief Technology Officer
Shawn David
Chief Technology Officer / Chief Security Officer IMS Technical Director
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