Stony Brook Medicine · 2 hours ago
Patient Access Representative, Team Lead - Bed Management
Stony Brook Medicine is a leading healthcare provider, and they are seeking a Patient Access Representative, Team Lead - Bed Management. This role involves overseeing inpatient throughput, ensuring patients are assigned to appropriate care levels, and supporting registration processes while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
Serves as the registration super-user and shift lead in Bed Management, supporting Patient Access staff and multi-disciplinary colleagues in matters of registration protocols and process flows
Works to expedite registration functions according to priorities
Assists a supervisor with 'on the job training' as appropriate
Assists a supervisor with monitoring staff’s registration, eligibility verification, and efficiency
Assists a supervisor in re-assigning staff in response to census needs and changing priorities
Appropriately relays issues identified as needing higher level intervention to supervisory attention
Works in collaboration with supervisors and leads in shift endorsements and leadership shift coverage
Coordinates and supports activities to ensure excellence in throughput for inpatient and observation; including same day admits, urgent, emergency and transfers in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team in the CTO Office
Responsible for updates to medical service appropriateness by patient type. Screens and takes reservations for direct admissions and coordinates with the multidisciplinary team to assign appropriate level of care
Works closely with Bed Coordinators and ADNs (nursing staff)
Responsible to provide hospital wide requestors with real time bed status, patient information, and room availability
Completing pre-arrival, pre-registrations and registrations using various computer system resources for all Inter and Intra-facility transfers in accordance with prescribed workflows
Supports Financial Clearance by verifying and documenting appropriate insurance coverage
Send appropriate admission notification faxes to the insurance companies
Enter death certificate data electronically or on paper and ensure timely physician certification
Support completion of MRN and encounter combines and building physician using the HNA Combine Tool
Complete patient registration, including demographic and regulatory information, confirming insurance eligibility / verification
Qualification
Required
Associate's Degree with two years of working experience in the healthcare industry
In lieu of degree, four years of demonstrated excellence working in hospital, public health, or facility-based healthcare setting
Ability to work independently in a multidisciplinary team structure
The selected candidate will be required to work some holidays. Pass days are variable and weekend availability is required
Preferred
Previous experience as a Patient Access Representative at a Medical Center is strongly preferred
Hospital Bed Management experience, and/or Billing, Registration experience
Familiarity with Medical insurance benefits, demonstrated through experience with EMR computerized registration / Financial / IT systems
Knowledge of medical terminology
Benefits
Location pay for UUP, CSEA & PEF full-time positions ($3,400)
Night shift differential ($000), evening shift differential ($6,000)
Inconvenience pay/supplemental shift differential ($575)
Generous leave
Health plans
State pension
Company
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook Medicine expresses our shared mission of research, clinical care and education – a mission embraced by our faculty, staff, researchers, and students.
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