Patient Admin Specialist 

3-month contract

On-site – Palo Alto, CA

$26 – $28/hour

Looking to GROW your healthcare career?

Our client, a nationally recognized hospital in the nation, is currently seeking a friendly and reliable Patient Admin Specialist. If you have exposure to healthcare and administrative skills this is an excellent opportunity.  Our client is actively interviewing and has multiple openings available!

Responsibilities:

• Greets and welcomes patients and assists them with initial questions regarding appointments, payments, schedules, etc.
• Answers multi-line phone, screens, and routes calls, takes messages for clinic staff and physicians.
• Assure appropriate verifications and authorizations are complete before the patient sees the provider.
• Communicate with providers regarding scheduling preferences, and ability to respond to urgent patient needs.
• Provide doctor-patient support using reference documents and tools.
• Carry out various administrative tasks, including maintaining information and paging directory databases, and processing internal forms.
• Utilize all functionality of the telephone system and electronic medical records systems in performing assigned job tasks.
• Expedites appropriate care and treatment, using critical reasoning and astute clinical judgment especially given the patient may present with complex problems or potentially life-threatening conditions.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of experience working in a healthcare setting with some administrative skills
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• HS Diploma
• Comfortable with Office 365 Skills
• Strong communication, and customer service

For immediate consideration, please apply!

Option 1 Staffing is an award-winning, statewide, recognized leader in staffing and recruiting, specializing in placing the highest caliber of Non-Clinical Healthcare, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Administrative/Office, and Accounting/Finance professionals in contract and direct-hire opportunities. We work with top and emerging companies in the Technology and Healthcare industry.

We Offer:

• Excellent opportunity to work for an outstanding, large, and growing company!
• Awesome Benefits!
• Excellent salary!
• Medical Insurance
• 401K

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