Shepherdsville, KY30+ days ago
Receives and interviews patients in a courteous, empathetic, and professional manner • Obtains and enters complete and accurate patient demographic, guarantor, and insurance information • Assures completion of forms for signatures, authorization and consents • Reviews patient insurance information and assigns appropriate insurance payor plan codes including policy, group and authorization numbers to ensure proper billing • Assigns appropriate patient types and beds according to the type of registration (ER, Inpatient Admits, Observations, Outpatient Surgery (ODSU), Lab, Radiology, T-accounts, etc.). Corrects all changes to accounts prior to billing (inpatient to observation, observation to inpatient, inpatient to ODSU, etc.) • Ensures that the ordering, attending, referring and primary care physicians are documented in the hospital computer system (SMS) correctly when registering patients • Maintains awareness of individual patient needs and wait times for registration.