Front Office Coordinator

Description

The Front Office Coordinator, under the general direction of the Practice Manager or Practice Administrator, is responsible for greeting patients and visitors, maintaining appropriate patient flow, answering phones in a timely manner, scheduling appointments, and providing exceptional customer services.

Key Responsibilities

• Greets and assists all patients and visitors upon arrival in the clinic.
• Initiates and facilitates patient and visitor flow within the clinic.
• Collects demographic, insurance, and medical information from patient. Ensures all appropriate patient forms are complete and accurate.
• Accurately schedules follow-up appointments as needed.
• Answer incoming calls in a timely and professional manner. Route calls and takes messages as appropriate.
• Organize and scans incoming patient medical records information into correct patient EMR.
• Assists with arranging for any lab or other diagnostic/clinical tests or treatments prescribed by the physician during the patient examination
• Assist with billing, accounting, and collections, including ordering supplies and maintaining inventory.
• Sorts and routes incoming mail and faxes.
• Follows through with the patient or their physician offices on outstanding documentation needed to finalize the patients chart.
• Implements directions from the physicians and nursing staff.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional languages preferred
• Graduate of a Medical Assistant / Medical Office Specialist program preferred
• One-year experience in a medical office setting highly preferred.

Physical Requirements

Standing, sitting, walking, speaking, listening, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping and manipulating tools, typing, using peripheral computer tools

Please Note
Must be willing to float to other locations

About Steward Health Care Systems

Steward Health Care is the largest private, tax-paying physician-led health care network in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Steward operates 35 hospitals in the United States and the country of Malta that regularly receive top awards for quality and safety. The company employs approximately 42,000 health care professionals. The Steward network includes multiple urgent care centers and skilled nursing facilities, substantial behavioral health services, over 7,900 beds under management, and approximately 2.2 million full risk covered lives through the company's managed care and health insurance services.

The Steward Health Care Network includes 5,000 physicians across 800 communities who help to provide more than 12 million patient encounters per year. Steward Medical Group, the company's employed physician group, provides more than six million patient encounters per year. The Steward Hospital Group operates hospitals in Malta and nine states across the U.S., including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.

Steward Health Care is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer, Steward Health Care does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.