Receptionist-(ELM)
City of Hope
Long Beach, CA
Job posting number: #7254615 (Ref:10026372)
Posted: June 13, 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.
Answers telephone, screen, and direct calls. Attending to visitors and dealing with inquiries on the phone/face to face. Register patients, retrieve medical records as needed for hospital follow-up. Confirm patient appointments, checking in/out all patients, task messages from/to staff and physicians, schedule all patient appointments (hospital and office follow-ups), collect co-payments and process all payments in designated system. Check incoming and outgoing mail, check and clear incoming faxes, verify insurance eligibility as needed. Complete all physician orders, schedule all tests 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:
- Handles all incoming calls from the company’s main telephone system. Ability to take and relay messages; provide information to callers.
- Responsible for sending out and receiving packages from deliveries.
- Greet visitors entering the organization and direct them to the correct destination.
- General administrative and clerical support from the different departments of the organization.
- Maintains a pleasant appearance of the reception area and lobby.
- Maintains a positive image when dealing with department personnel and other City of Hope employees.
- If providing care within the City of Hope COMPASS Program (Cancer Outreach through Mobile Prevention and Screening Services):
- You will provide care via a mobile ambulatory care setting. This position requires travel.
Your qualifications should include:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of one (1) year customer service experience.
- Traveling is required
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
Additional Information:
COH employees may apply for a transfer or promotion to job openings for which they meet the minimum qualifications if they meet the following criteria:
- Employed at COH in current role for at least one year, unless otherwise stipulated in an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
- Are in good standing and have no current performance issues
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.