Team Lead Patient Access

Facility: Cox. Health National Building: 3660 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807 Department: 1307 Patient Access Services CMG Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Hours: Availability 6:30a-6:30p Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America) Cox. Health is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas.

The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. Cox. Health has earned the following honors for workplace excellence: Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times. Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group .

Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads. Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week) For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | Cox. Health Job Description: The Patient Access Team Lead is responsible for a variety of duties including training and assisting in the development of training materials for the team, auditing work, including the follow up of end of day logs, personal posting logs, revenue cycle and follow up to the co-pay queue.

This position performs corrections on patient’s accounts and the merging of duplicate accounts. Additional duties include providing coverage for the Patient Access team. Included in these duties are the collecting of money due, posting of money collected, responsible for monies collected, closing out and balancing at the end of each day.

They register all new and established patients, enters and verifies patient demographics, and verifies insurance code, policy and group numbers, etc. Performs clerical duties such as photocopying, faxing, answering telephones, computer data entry and assisting the supervisor in special projects or other duties as assigned.

Education

• Required: High School Diploma or Equivalent Experience:
• Required: 2 years customer service experience
• Preferred: Previous Insurance Follow Up and Medical Coding experience Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively in teams
• Proficient Computer skills
• Medical Terminology and Insurance Claim/AR Follow-up
• Self-starter and the ability to multi task.
• 10 key, credit card machine and scanner experience. Licensure/Certification/Registration:
• N/A