Admissions Executive

Job Description

• Admit patients by receiving booking forms/OT lists
• Confirm physicians’ admitting privileges
• Interview patients
• Enter patient info into the pre-admissions database
• Liaise with insurance department to validate coverage and/or payment/copayment for scheduled patients
• Collaborate with insurance department to send claim forms for emergency admissions (network or non-network cases)
• Confirm co-payments and patient liability for excesses or insurance shortfalls
• Coordinate with non-insured emergency admissions for payments and securing signed undertaking letters
• Communicate queries or authorization needs from non-contracted insurances to RCM
• Maintain patient trackers to update management on financial status
• Pre-register all patients in Meditech
• Work with medical records department/bed manager to send midnight bed view (census) reports for occupancy tracking
• Ensure financial coverage and co-payment are confirmed before discharge to avoid loss
• Confirm patient demographics in Meditech upon patient arrival
• Follow business process requirements for insurance form completion
• Collect payments (fees, insurance excess, co-payments) at admission and issue invoices/receipts
• Enter payments and manage Cash Drawer routine in Meditech; balance payments at end of shift
• Coordinate with bed manager/nurse managers for ward/room assignments and bed reallocations