
Dental Patient Registration Clerk
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Title
Dental Patient Registration Clerk
Department
Dental
Supervisor
Director of Dental
Job Type
Full-Time
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt
Pay Range
$15.00 - $17.00
Schedule
Monday - Friday
Work Location
In Person
Duties and Responsibilities
Answer telephone and respond to the needs of the caller in a professional manner.
Scheduling Patients.
Take accurate messages and forward them to the recipient in a timely manner.
Register patients, verify insurance, and patient demographics.
Modifies patient account to reflect any changes in demographics or other patient account information.
Establish patient medical record when necessary.
Prepare encounter and attach it to the front of the medical record.
Inform medical personnel of patient’s arrival.
Assist with eligibility duties to ensure that reasonable efforts are made to secure payments from patients for amounts owed for services based on their established sliding fee discount in a manner that assures no patient will be denied services based on an inability to pay.
Prepares new patient packets and ensures mailed prior to scheduled appointment.
Demonstrating flexibility, enthusiasm and willingness to cooperate while working with others in assigned inter-professional care teams to support PCMH programmatic activities.
Participate in population management activities, as directed.
Assist the care team by helping to measure quality and identify, refine and implement practice improvements that support the medical home, and assist in performance evaluation and quality improvement.
Apply the principles of comprehensive, community-based, patient-centered, developmentally appropriate, and culturally and linguistically sensitive care.
Maintains professional courtesy at all times.
Performs all other related duties as assigned.
Perform eight-hour shifts Monday through Friday at office location
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Preferred
Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred but not required.
Credentials and Experience
The employee must be able to lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye/hand coordination. Requires sitting, standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours. Requires frequent exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, toxic substances, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Ability to work with a moderate noise level in the work environment is required.
The above information is intended to describe the most important aspects of the job. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties and skills required in order to perform the work. The health center reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the business need arises. Additionally, this job description is not intended as an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and the Center continues to maintain its status as an at-will employer. If the essential functions of this position cannot be performed in a satisfactory manner by the employee, reasonable accommodations may be made.
Special Requirements
The employee must be able to lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye/hand coordination. Requires sitting, standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours. Requires frequent exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, toxic substances, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Ability to work with a moderate noise level in the work environment is required.
The above information is intended to describe the most important aspects of the job. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties and skills required in order to perform the work. The health center reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the business need arises. Additionally, this job description is not intended as an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and the Center continues to maintain its status as an at-will employer. If the essential functions of this position cannot be performed in a satisfactory manner by the employee, reasonable accommodations may be made.