Medical Office Rep II

Dignity Health Medical Foundation, established in 1993, is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation with care centers throughout California. Dignity Health Medical Foundation is an affiliate of Dignity Health - one of the largest health systems in the nation - with hospitals and care centers in California, Arizona and Nevada. Today, Dignity Health Medical Foundation works hand-in-hand with physicians and providers throughout California to provide comprehensive health care services to the many communities we serve. As Dignity Health Medical Foundation continues to grow and establish new premier care centers, we provide increasing support and investment in the latest technologies, finest physicians and state-of-the-art medical facilities. We strive to create purposeful work settings where staff can provide great care, while advancing in knowledge and experience through challenging work assignments and stimulating relationships. Our staff is well-trained and highly skilled, qualities that are vital to maintaining excellence in care and service.

Dignity Health Medical Group – Bakersfield, a service of Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has four convenient locations in Bakersfield and Tehachapi. Along with our local affiliated Dignity Health hospitals (Memorial Hospital and Mercy Hospitals, we offer an integrated care delivery system that provides high quality, compassionate care in family medicine, internal medicine, geriatrics, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, endocrinology, endocrine surgery, ENT, general surgery, infectious disease, obesity medicine, urology, and women's health.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

The Medical Office Representative II position is the first point of customer service contact for our patients, physicians, other clinic staff, internal and external laboratory and imaging staff, hospital staff, patient family members, and vendors by offering customer service, communications, and appropriate distribution of phone calls and messages. The Office Representative II may also perform a variety of other duties including but not limited to collecting and updating demographics and insurance information, verification of health plan eligibility, taking complete and accurate messages, and scheduling mutually acceptable appointment times utilizing an electronic practice management system. The Office Representative II may also be asked to perform other clerical duties as needed and requested to support daily clinic operation goals, bench marks, and quality patient care initiatives per departmental guidelines. This position may have access to third party credit card information and transactional systems (cash registers, point of sale devices, applications supporting credit card transactions, and reports or other documents containing credit card information) from single transactions or a single card at a time.

Preferred:

• Six (6) month's experience in an outpatient setting as a Medical Office Receptionist performing similar duties preferred; or an equivalent amount of experience in a high- volume customer service role in another industry/environment working with referrals or scheduling surgeries; or six (6) month's experience as a Medical Office Receptionist within Dignity Health Medical Foundation.

Required:

• High School diploma or equivalent