Job Description

Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars-Sinai received the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 times for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We also were awarded the Advisory Board Company’s Workplace of the Year, 3 years in a row. This recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement. We offer an outstanding benefit package and competitive compensation. Come find out why Cedars-Sinai was Voted #1 in California by U.S. News Best Hospitals!

Why work here?

Beyond an outstanding benefit package and competitive salaries, we take pride in hiring the best, most committed employees. Our staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a multifaceted, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role?

The Patient Service Representative II (PSR II), following established practices, policies, and guidelines, provides clerical and administrative support/duties while handling high volume of patient coordination and complex scheduling in the licensed clinics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The PSR II is cross- trained to cover multiple providers and is a resource.

These responsibilities include:

• Independently manages patient check-in and check-out procedures, including payment collection and reconciliation.
• Maintains patient demographic and insurance information in the CS-Link system, ensuring high accuracy and data integrity.
• Schedules and coordinates patient appointments effectively to ensure smooth patient flow. Maintains knowledge & understanding of scheduling protocols, guidelines & standard operating procedures. May perform special scheduling requests from leadership or multi-coordination scheduling (e.g., echo, EKG, Zio, labs) following provider visit sequencing, such as panel visits.
• Coordinates procedure/testing with other departments and ancillary services, monitors daily patient schedule and identifies “no show” for rescheduling.
• Analyzes and understands complex healthcare insurance benefits to assess patients’ out-of-pocket expenses and authorization requirements.
• Manages providers master schedules, handling all changes and patient/provider correspondence.
• Coordinates patient referrals and authorizations, ensuring that all patient interactions align with healthcare regulatory standards and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's best practices.
• Participates actively in departmental huddles and staff meetings, occasionally leading discussions or presentations.
• Manages department-specific data and workflows using lean methodology.
• Promotes and adheres to all infection prevention standards and department policies and procedures.
• Retrieves and obtains records as needed per clinical protocol. Responsible for following CSMC and HIPAA confidentiality guidelines while performing all duties.
• Manages patient flow in clinic, participates and guide patient for work-up in other departments as necessary. Liaison between patient and clinical team.
• Performs courier services within the medical center vicinity such as picking up/dropping off supplies, etc. Maintains patient demographic and insurance information in the CS-Link system, ensuring high accuracy and data integrity.
• Utilizes a consistent telephone greeting, answers telephones, takes complete and accurate messages, triages and relays to appropriate party to support the operational aspects of patient care. May utilize automated call distribution system (ACD).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED.
• 2+ years of experience working with insurance companies and obtaining authorizations.

About Us

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

About the Team

Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.

Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai

We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve Quality Care and Research—For All, By All.

Our compensation philosophy

We offer a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base pay range shown generally applies to the greater Los Angeles area and may vary based on work location. Our range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including knowledge/skills: relevant experience and training, education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. The base pay range does not include any incentive payments that may be applicable to a role. Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision (PDF) .

Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy.