Receptionist-Glendale
City of Hope
Glendale, CA
Job posting number: #7293491 (Ref:10028014)
Posted: November 8, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $20.81 - $24.97 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Receptionist position that will support physicians, schedule all patient appointments (hospital and office follow-ups), collect co-payments and process all payments in Passport. Check incoming and outgoing mail, check and clear incoming faxes, verify insurance eligibility as needed. Complete all physician orders, schedule all test and diagnostic studies ordered. Obtain authorizations as needed and link authorizations to visits, tests or procedures. Verify any changes to patient demographics, update insurances at each visit.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Answer calls, take messages, and provide information.
- Greet and direct visitors; maintain a welcoming reception area.
- Send/receive packages and manage deliveries.
- Support departments with clerical tasks.
- Register patients in EMR (Epic preferred) and verify demographics.
- Verify insurance eligibility and co-payments; submit IPA authorizations.
- Schedule multi-specialty appointments and coordinate physician orders.
- Assist with telehealth and patient portal registration.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication.
- Strong customer service skills; at least 1 year in a medical office preferred.
- Knowledge of EMR systems, managed care insurance, and IPA submissions.
- Independent, organized, and detail-oriented.
Your qualifications should include:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of one (1) year customer service experience(medical office setting preferred)
- Medical terminology knowledge
Additional Information:
- Full-time, day shift
- Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Fluent in Armenian preferred
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $20.81 - $24.97 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
