Rehabilitation Patient Services Specialist

Job description

Description SUMMARY: The Patient Services Specialist is responsible for excellent customer service, greeting all patients, ensuring completion of all new or updated patient paperwork, scheduling appointments, insurance verification, worker’s compensation authorization, answering phones, and collecting all appropriate monies due at the time of service. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Greets, welcomes, and expedites patients as they check in while keeping staff and patients abreast of any delays - Instructs new patients on completion of consent to treat forms, explains insurance benefit information, MRI patient information forms (if applicable), and makes any necessary corrections to the patients account - Scans all new patient or updated patient information into computer (including: photo ID, insurance cards, referrals, patient paperwork, and payment logs) - Verifies rehabilitation benefits and documents benefits on paper and into computer system - Explains financial requirements to the patient and collects time of service deductible, co-pays and/or co-insurance, and any outstanding balance for rehab or MRI (if applicable) - Communication with workers compensation for autho...