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Contact Center Representative - Edison

extra holidays - extra parental leave
Remote: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Experience: 
Mid-level (2-5 years)
Work from: 
New Jersey (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

High School diploma or equivalent, 1 year of customer service experience.

Key responsabilities:

  • Handle multi-channel requests in a contact center environment
  • Schedule appointments, register patients, handle medical requests
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Job description

Overview:

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. 

At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. 

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The Contact Center Representative will handle multi-channel requests in a fast-paced centralized contact center environment, interacting with patients, families and clinical staff to schedule appointments, register patients and handle other medical requests. This role interacts with a diverse customer base to assist with questions, concerns or problems with a focus on first contact resolution, providing exceptional customer service, striving to anticipate and meet the needs of HMH consumers, treating all consumers and colleagues with dignity and respect, and working collaboratively to achieve quality and performance standards.

 

Multiple hybrid positions open in both our Edison and Neptune locations
 
Hybrid positions with 90% work from home and 10% working onsite after completing the fully onsite training period
Onsite training first 4 weeks of employment and candidates need to be available for the entire duration
 
Schedules are created between 7:30am - 7:00pm Monday through Friday as well as Saturdays 8:30am - 12:00pm (rotating basis as needed)
Saturday shift (remote) provides a day off during the week
Responsibilities:

A day in the life of a Contact Center Representative with Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

  • Answer incoming calls, emails and chats to accurately schedule, re-schedule, or cancel appointments according to guidelines and established protocols.
  • Perform new patient pre-registration. Positively verifies/updates patient identity, demographics, insurance and all other data as required.
  • Collaborate with patients, medical practices and various insurance companies to ensure that authorizations are obtained in a timely fashion.
  • Ensures accuracy in all required demographic, financial, referral/authorization, clinical, and other registration data is accurately scheduled, collected, verified, and communicated.
  • Utilize current Electronic Health Record (Epic) to perform transactions and accurately and efficiently document and route messages to the appropriate practice.
  • Respond to patient portal requests and educates patients on the use and benefits of the patient portal.
  • Assists with locating a primary care or specialty provider with appropriate referrals within the health system.
  • Collaborates, communicates and coordinates to create a positive patient experience.
  • Assists patients with any questions and resolves calls with minimal outside direction by researching and exploring answers, alternative solutions, implementing solutions, and escalating unresolved problems.
  • Required to meet specific performance metrics of productivity and quality assurance.
  • Adheres to all established workflows, scripting, and department call flow.
  • Demonstrates appropriate customer-care skills such as empathy, active listening, courtesy, politeness, helpfulness and other skills as identified to interact with a variety of customers including patients, practice staff, physicians, colleagues and leaders.
  • Performs other job-related duties as required.
  • Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
Qualifications:

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

  • High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
  • Minimum of 1 year of previous experience working in a customer service, customer facing (i.e., retail or hospitality) or call center environment.
  • Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong telephone soft skills gained from prior customer/patient experience in a similar role or in a call center environment type role.
  • Possess a true patient first attitude, and a passion for assisting patients and delivering a differentiating patient experience on every contact.
  • Clear speaking voice.
  • Outstanding work ethic and strong adherence to shift schedule (may include overtime and weekend work).

 

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

  •  Associate's or Bachelors degree.
  •  1 year of healthcare experience as a Medical assistant or assisting patients in any capacity.
  •  2 years of previous experience working in an inbound call center environment.
  •  Previous experience using EPIC system.
  •  Knowledge of medical terminology, hospital systems, and insurance processes.
  •  Bilingual.

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!

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Level of experience: Mid-level (2-5 years)
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