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Job Description:

  • Pre-admits patients by receiving bookings from physicians; confirming admitting privileges of physicians; interviewing patients; entering patient information to pre-admissions database.
  • Provides patients with information by explaining hospital admission policies, time of admission, room selection, etc.
  • Secures payments by screening insurance information; identifying patients requiring pre-admission approvals from third-party payers; verifying approvals; notifying patient accounts department of self-paying admissions.
  • Prepares admission folders by gathering admission paperwork for scheduled patients.
  • Greets and receives patients to be admitted by conducting personal interviews; entering demographic and insurance information; confirming pre-admission information; obtaining signatures on legal consents and insurance forms; receiving payment and issuing receipts, distributing patient information literature.
  • Verifies patient identify by checking identification; preparing and placing identification band on patient. Ensures patient's arrival to hospital room or testing area by assigning patient beds; notifying nursing unit of patient's arrival; calling them to transport the patient to the assigned area.
  • Provides information to the public by answering admitting procedure, hospital regulation and service inquiries of patients and the public; referring inquiries.
  • Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures.