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Patient Access Team Lead

Parkridge East Hospital
Chattanooga, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 9/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/18/2025

Schedule: Monday - Friday 12pm-8:30pm

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Patient Access Team LeadParkridge East Hospital

Benefits

Parkridge East Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

  • Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
  • Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
  • Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  • 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  • Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  • Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  • Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  • Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  • Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  • Colleague recognition program
  • Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  • Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a Patient Access Team Lead for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications


As a Patient Access Team Lead, you will be responsible for providing feedback on daily registration processes and staffing issues to the Patient Access Supervisor or Patient Access Manager. You will also provide assistance to staff level employees as necessary to ensure compliance with department policies and procedures. Assist leadership with staffing, report reconciliation, and QA process.


What you will do in this role:


  • Staff and order supplies according to budget guidelines and department needs
  • Assists Manager and/or Supervisor in creating staff schedules and ensures adequate coverage
  • Model AIDET guidelines in all interactions with the patient and ensure staff are adhering to the patient's experience expectations.
  • Promotes and demonstrates excellent customer service
  • Maintain QA statistics (including patient wait times, etc.) and report results to Supervisor or Manager.
  • Oversee the daily activities of the registration area to ensure department standards are met
  • Assists Supervisor and/or Manager in educating registration staff of any changes pertinent to their roles When appropriate, relieve staff members during employee sick/vacation time
  • Secure all signatures necessary for treatments, release of medical information, assignment of insurance benefits and payment of services from legally responsible patients
  • Work closely and professionally with nursing and ancillary departments in effort to maintain a teamwork approach
  • Excel in all functions performed by patient representatives in all registration areas
  • Collect/request deposits and copays
  • Assume on-call responsibilities to insure adequate staffing and problem-solving
  • Register all patient types
  • Assists in resolving patient concerns


What qualifications you will need:


  • High school diploma or GED preferred.
  • At least one year of related experience required.


Parallon
provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers and their communities.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.


"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Patient Access Team Lead opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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