Medical Receptionist - Float

Company: Oak Street Health

Title: Welcome Coordinator

Compensation: $17.50/hr

For applicants in Rhode Island, the estimated range would be $18.46 per hour. However, note that there may be situations where an employee’s compensation is outside of this range.

Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers that provides higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs, and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities.  By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patient’s communities, we can keep our patients healthy and then reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.  At 40 locations, and with an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about the mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.

For more information, visit http://www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description

Oak Street Health takes a team-based approach to providing outstanding patient care. Our Service Team builds individual relationships with our patients and ensure they are happy with their experience. The Service Team is responsible for delivering excellent, high-touch assistance to our patients everyday.

Welcome Coordinators are an integral part of Oak Street Health. You will be the first impression we make on our patients. You will efficiently juggle many tasks: ownership of our Welcome and Community Areas, management of inbound and outbound phone calls, as well as managing patient referrals and medical records. We also expect you to be highly flexible, covering when needed in other local locations.

Responsibilities:

• Welcoming patients and conducting check-in with required forms
• Collect co-pays
• Updating patient information and making changes in electronic medical record platform
• Scheduling appointments within electronic medical records platform
• Managing phone lines by answering, taking messages, and conducting outbound calls as instructed
• Managing patient referrals by scheduling those appointments and completing authorizations
• Requesting medical records, routing documents to clinical staff for review, and uploading documents into electronic medical record platform
• Assisting new patients with paperwork
• Assisting with community room events
• Other duties as assigned

The Welcome Coordinator reports to the Clinic Administrator

What we’re looking for

• A flexible and positive attitude
• A welcoming and nurturing attitude toward our patient population of older adults
• Strong computer skills and basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in customer service setting
• Professional phone etiquette
• High level of integrity
• Proficient PC skills
• College degree preferred, some college required
• Fluency in Spanish, Polish, Russian, or other languages spoken by people in the communities we serve (where necessary)
• US work authorization
• Someone who embodies being “Oaky”. What it means to be OAKY:
  • Creating an unmatched patient experience
  • Driving clinical excellence
  • Taking ownership and driving for results
  • Being scrappy
  • Radiating positive energy
  • Assuming good intentions

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers advantages that can’t be found in other healthcare companies, including:

• The opportunity to be part of a hyper-growth company focused on changing the future of healthcare.
• High levels of responsibility and opportunities for rapid advancement
• Generous retirement options, paid vacation/sick time, as well as health, vision and dental benefits
• Supportive and fun culture

Why does Oak Street Health offer all of these benefits? Because we know what it takes to deliver the highest level of care, and our team deserves the best resources to succeed and enjoy their work. In return, we expect the best out of our co-workers.

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers