Patient Registrar

Job Description Summary

Processes patient paperwork, manages billing, and provides customer support to patients visiting a hospital emergency room. Registrars are often well-organized, quick-thinking, and excellent communicators. Their job involves managing patient paperwork, validating insurance, explaining forms, wait times and insurance policies to patients.

Entity

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC000113 CHE - Admitting & Registration (CMC)

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

Pay Grade

Health-19

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

An ER registrar is an administrative professional who admits patients in the emergency room, processes patient paperwork, manages billing and provides customer support to patients visiting a hospital emergency room. Registrars are often well-organized, quick-thinking and excellent communicators. Their job involves managing patient paperwork, validating insurance, explaining forms, wait times and insurance policies to patients. Although ER registrars aren't clinical medical providers, they play a key role in keeping hospital operations running smoothly, ensuring patients receive the care they need.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Greeting patients and visitors

• Collecting information about patients and their need for emergency care.

• Managing patient intake forms by explaining paperwork to patients, completing paperwork, filing forms, and protecting patient confidentiality.

• Performing administrative tasks like answering the phone, filing paperwork, maintaining the admissions desk area, collecting payments, and assisting visitors

Additional Job Description

Education: High School Degree or GED required

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

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