Front Desk Coordinator

Front Desk Receptionist

The Front Desk Receptionist strives to aid the practice in achieving quality patient care and takes primary responsibility for welcoming patients and performing various administrative duties centered around patient care and appointments. The receptionist gives a vital first impression of the practice to patients and outside parties who contact us.

Essential Functions :

• Greets all patients, vendors, and employees professionally and courteously.
• Assisting patients by giving one-on-one guidance on how to use the Clear Wave Kiosk.
• Collect and record designated co-pays, co-insurance, deductibles, and account balances upon patient checkout, issuing appropriate receipts when receiving payments.
• Responsible for maintaining, verifying, and updating accurate patient information such as insurance information, patient demographics, and any other pertinent information in the company's EHR system.
• Accountable for all incoming phone calls in a prompt and professional manner.
• Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and balancing of end-of-day patient payments.
• Responsible for patient management including, patient appointments, referrals, medical records requests, appointment reminders, and patient file management.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and welcoming reception area.

Primary Duties :

Answering and monitoring the voicemail by triaging patient calls and forwarding them to the proper person when the call is outside the scope of the employee's duties. Ensuring the division's inbox is promptly being monitored and distributed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :