Patient Registration Specialist
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Dependent upon assignment within the department, responsibilities may include pre-registration, registration, payer identification and verification, referral to financial counseling, and point of service collections. Vital functions include: timely, accurate and complete data gathering and entry in the computer system(s) of patient demographic and benefit information, verification of benefits eligibility and limitations, coordination of benefits, determination and collection of patient's financial responsibility at the point of service, and satisfaction of regulatory requirements (medical necessity determination, Medicare Secondary Payer completion and coordination of benefits, Important Message from Medicare issuance and signage, HIPAA, and EMTALA). Ability to communicate concisely and clearly is important. Essential is the ability to use AIDET and provide excellent customer service to patients, patients' family members, healthcare providers, medical staff offices, and peers.