Job Summary:


The Patient Access Representative I is a unique role within the Kaiser Permanente Health System environment. The Patient Access Representative I welcomes the patient into the care delivery setting and initiates the administrative systems that will lay the groundwork for the patients clinical care as well as the financial documentation. The Patient Access Representative I is responsible for ensuring a complete and accurate Patient admission/registration. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: collecting pertinent registration data, performing functions such as limited insurance eligibility and benefits verification, point of service cash collection, based on established manual or technological protocols, and completion of documentation necessary for the expedient registration/ admission of Patients according to organizational policy and procedures and federal/state/regulatory requirements. Obtaining inpatient bed assignments and processes inpatient a...