Job Description
Patient Engagement Representative Village At Home
Remote
Join VillageMD as a Patient Engagement Representative Village At Home
Join the frontlines of today’s healthcare transformation
Why VillageMD?
At VillageMD, we’re looking for a Patient Engagement Representative to help us transform the way primary care is delivered and how patients are served. As a national leader on the forefront of healthcare, we’ve partnered with many of today’s best primary care physicians. We’re equipping them with the latest digital tools. Empowering them with proven strategies and support. Inspiring them with better practices and consistent results.
We’re creating care that’s more accessible. Effective. Efficient. With solutions that are value-based, physician-driven and patient-centered. To accomplish this, we’re looking for individuals who share our sense of excellence, are ready to embrace change, and never settle for the status quo. Individuals who have the confidence to lead but the humility to never stop learning.
Could this be you?
In this role you will offer inbound and outbound phone support using telephony and EMR system(s). The ideal candidate has experience in logistics and call center environment. Can understand the needs of others to meet those needs with great service and operational processing accuracy. Knowledge of the healthcare industry including clinical terminology, insurance, sales, and EMR/HIN systems preferred but not required. The ability to have premier service interactions with patients is critical to success in this role, in addition to processing with operational accuracy and excellence.
How you can make a difference
- Ensures patient assessment visits including all Village at Home visits are scheduled and performed timely.
- Prepares weekly clinician schedules. Reviews clinician schedules daily or more frequently as needed to determine capacity opportunities and ensure productivity standards are being met.
- Ensures clinicians are assigned and scheduled in most efficient geography, maximizing clinician efficiency, utilizing the lowest possible discipline, matching skill with required care, and optimizing clinician capacity
- Ensures missed visits are scheduled by the end of the current week or referred to the Clinical Manager for resolution.
- Works collaboratively with field clinicians to ensure all patient visits are scheduled and completed as ordered and within the care center.
- Manages calls from patients and field staff related to scheduling issues. Refers clinical and performance related issues to the Clinical Manager.
- Responsible for meeting or exceeding the productivity and quality standards
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Skills for success
- A people-first attitude and premier customer service DNA
- A genuine excitement to help patients and process with operational excellence
- A problem solver who can confidently troubleshoot and investigate to answer questions or resolve complaints
- Confident with system processing and an attention to detail making updates
- Communication: speaks clearly, listens and gains clarification when needed, and responds well to questions
- Adaptability: handles frequent or unexpected changes with a positive attitude
- Self-motivated: energetic, self-starter; can work autonomously
- Ability to put yourself in patients’ shoes and advocate for them when necessary
- Results oriented: bias for action; demonstrated record of accomplishment of achievement; drive for attainment of superior outcomes
- Flexible: able to navigate within ambiguity; solution-oriented communication; conveys thoughts and expresses ideas effectively both verbally and in writing; strong presentation skills
- Collaboration: orientation to team-based work product and results
- Service: Actively supports others, demonstrates an optimistic, can-do approach to issue resolution
- Humility: low ego; engenders trust; respectful
Experience to drive change
- High school diploma or GED
- Experience working in a fast paced, high growth call center
- Excellent telephone etiquette
- Skilled in basic computer operations and EMR
- Service center excellence
- Experience in the medical or health insurance field preferred
- Bilingualin English and Spanish preferred
How you will thrive
In addition to competitive salaries, a 401k program with company match, bonus, and a valuable health benefits package, VillageMD offers paid parental leave, pre-tax savings on commuter expenses, and generous paid time off. You work in a highly-collaborative, conscientious, forward-thinking environment that welcomes your experience and enables you to make a significant impact from Day 1.
Most importantly, you make a difference. You see a clear connection between your daily work on VillageMD products and services and the advancement of innovative solutions and improved quality of healthcare for providers and patients.