**Job Description** **Job Description:** This position greets customers and facilitates the patient registration process in a timely, professional, and courteous manner. Interviews and obtains demographic and financial information from patients or their representatives through face-to-face and virtual interactions to provide Essentia Health with the documents and data necessary to ensure appropriate care and compliant, accurate patient registration and billing. This position serves as liaisons between patients and Virtual Patient Registration Representatives and Patient Schedulers. They must be able to complete patient checkout, schedule follow-up appointments per the physician’s order, and provide patients with cost estimates and itineraries for their upcoming appointments. **Education Qualifications:** Key Responsibilities: • Interviews patients to obtain complete demographic details, financial information, and minimum health information to ensure appropriate care provision. • Obtains copies of insurance cards and other forms of identification, and updates patient information in the medical record as necessary. • Performs point of service data collection, including identifying and collecting patient co-payments and down payments, reconciles the cash drawer, and reports daily deposit records associated with the collection of co-payments to ensure accurate accounting of revenue. • Maintains all assigned work queues according to supervisor’s instructions and guidance. • Interacts positively and in a caring manner with patients, co-workers, and others to provide highest level of customer service. • Answers incoming phone calls, schedules appointments, and refers to clinical team as needed. • Sanitizes registration equipment between each use and restocks basic supplies. • Other clerical duties as assigned. Preferred Qualifications: • Previous Patient Access Representative or Patient Scheduler experience preferred. **Job Location:** Essentia Health Cloquet Clinic **Shift Rotation:** Day Rotation (United States of America) **Shift Start/End:** Days/Days **Hours Per Pay Period:** 32 **Compensation Range:** $15.63 - $23.45 / hour **Union:** **FTE:** 0.4 **Weekends:** **Call Obligations:** **Sign On Bonus:** Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Essentia It is our policy to afford EEO to all individuals, regardless of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, family medical history, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, military service or veteran status, culture, socio-economic status, status with regard to public assistance, and other factors not related to qualifications, including employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other category as defined by law.