**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

**This individual shall pre-register, register patients needing outpatient testing. Register all clinic/recurring patients.**

**Order tests for ancillary departments.**

**Pre-register, register and admit patients as needed.**

**Compliance check for medical necessity.**

**Distribute admission copies to proper departments.**

**Transport/escort patients.**

**Third shift: answer phones, admit patients, place patients, keep in contact with nursing supervisor and float secretary.**

**Take direct admissions, do census at midnight, file medical records, history and physicals, and laboratory reports in next day patient admission packets.**

**The individual gives the first impression of the hospital and must act in a professional manner with excellent customer service skills at all times.**

**Register all patients that arrive in Registration area requiring In/Out pa...