Patient Access Specialist Cardiac Diagnostics
Inova Health System
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- Location
- Fairfax, VA
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 24
- Today
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About the company
Inova Health System
Hospital & health care · 10,001+ employees
Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
What you'll do
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Patient Intake, Registration & Documentation: Manages complex cases, resolves errors,
- confirms authorizations, validates, and indexes documents.
- Administrative & Technology Operations: Prepares schedules, tracks records, and navigates
- multiple systems efficiently.
- Case Management Tasks: Coordinates documentation and follows up on case-related tasks.
- Financial Counseling: Assesses coverage and initiates financial assistance.
- Insurance & Contract Coordination: Applies payer-specific rules, resolves issues, and identifies
- contract limitations.
- Inquiries & Patient Concerns: Resolves moderate concerns and tracks follow-ups with patients.
- Kiosk: Educates patients and reports usage trends on kiosks.
- Patient Communication & Advocacy: Coordinates with departments, tailors messaging, and
- supports patients.
- Referrals: Validates insurance and tracks referral status.
- Scheduling: Schedules specialty visits and coordinates preparation.
- Transport: Coordinates special needs transport.
- Health Information Management (HIM) Coordination: Resolves minor chart issues and assists
- with release of information (ROI).
- Utilization Review Coordination: Provides documentation to utilization review (UR) teams.
- Can include other duties as assigned.
- Education: High School or GED
- Experience: 1 year of patient access experience
What you need
- High School or GED
- 1 year of patient access experience
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Perks
- medical
- dental
- vision coverage
- team member wellness program
- Retirement
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance
- Mental Health Support
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Read the full posting here
Inova Cardiac Diagnostics - Fairfax is looking for a dedicated Patient Access Specialist to join the team. This position is full-time, Monday-Friday, scheduled hours 8:30am-5:00pm. As a Patient Access Specialist, you will adhere to Inova Health System's "Service Excellence" standards while admitting/scheduling patients, conducting insurance verifications and providing financial counseling.
Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits
Committed to Team Member Health : offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
Retirement : Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
Mental Health Support : offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
Patient Access Specialist Job Responsibilities:
Patient Intake, Registration & Documentation: Manages complex cases, resolves errors,
confirms authorizations, validates, and indexes documents.
Administrative & Technology Operations: Prepares schedules, tracks records, and navigates
multiple systems efficiently.
Case Management Tasks: Coordinates documentation and follows up on case-related tasks.
Financial Counseling: Assesses coverage and initiates financial assistance.
Insurance & Contract Coordination: Applies payer-specific rules, resolves issues, and identifies
contract limitations.
Inquiries & Patient Concerns: Resolves moderate concerns and tracks follow-ups with patients.
Kiosk: Educates patients and reports usage trends on kiosks.
Patient Communication & Advocacy: Coordinates with departments, tailors messaging, and
supports patients.
Referrals: Validates insurance and tracks referral status.
Scheduling: Schedules specialty visits and coordinates preparation.
Transport: Coordinates special needs transport.
Health Information Management (HIM) Coordination: Resolves minor chart issues and assists
with release of information (ROI).
Utilization Review Coordination: Provides documentation to utilization review (UR) teams.
Can include other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: High School or GED
Experience: 1 year of patient access experience