Job Description

Pre-admits patients by receiving bookings from physicians; confirming admitting privileges of physicians; interviewing patients; entering patient information to pre-admissions database. Provides patients with information by explaining hospital admission policies, time of admission, room selection, tv and video rentals, telephone availability, cell phone restrictions; answering inquiries. Secures payments by screening insurance information; identifying patients requiring pre-admission approvals from third-party payers; verifying approvals; notifying patient accounts department of self-paying admissions. Prepares admission folders by gathering admission paperwork for scheduled patients. Greets and receives patients to be admitted by conducting personal interviews; entering demographic and insurance information; confirming pre-admission information; obtaining signatures on legal consents and insurance forms; receiving payment and issuing receipts for tv and video rentals; accepting patient valuables; distributing patient information literature. Verifies patient identify by checking identification; preparing and placing identification band on patient. Ensures patient's arrival to hospital room or testing area by assigning patient beds; notifying nursing unit of patient's arrival; calling volunteer to transport the patient to the assigned area.
Admits emergency room and maternity patients by obtaining information from family members; visiting emergency room, delivery room, or patient room. Provides information to the public by answering admitting procedure, hospital regulation and service inquiries of patients and the public; referring inquiries. Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ?9,509.74 - ?32,711.80 per month

Benefits:

Food provided Health insurance Life insurance Provident Fund
Schedule:

Rotational shift
Work Location: In person