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Intake Specialist (Per Diem) - Patient Registration

Part-time

UNC Health Care

Smithfield, NCPer Diem / Part-time$18.84–26.77/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$18.84–26.77/hr
Location
Smithfield, NC
Schedule
Per Diem / Part-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Patient Access Intake Specialist supports outpatient patient registration by ensuring patient access processing is accurate and timely in ADT and other clinical information systems. The role verifies registration information, schedules appointments, completes required forms, provides price estimates, and supports upfront collections and quality assurance. The position is onsite and per diem, with a stated schedule of 4 hours per week.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer ServiceClerical Skills

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED2 Years Customer Service or Clerical Experience

Full job description

Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

This is an Outpatient Location. The hours for the Patient Access Intake Specialist position are Monday - Friday 5:30a-6:00p and Saturdays.

Summary:

This role is responsible in ensuring that patient access processing is performed in accordance with procedure and documented in a timely and accurate manner in ADT and other clinical information systems. Meets departmental/organizational outcome targets

for process accuracy and timeliness.

Responsibilities:

Ensures and verifies key ADT information (insurance verification, patient and guarantor demographics, etc.) is current and accurate to ensure patient safety, charging, coding, insurance processing, and billing accuracy.

Schedules all new and follow-up patient appointments as required. Attempt to reschedule cancellations whenever possible. Communicates cancellations to provider as necessary.

Completes and documents all governmental, regulatory, financial, and contractual forms in accordance to procedure. Ensures document is scanned/saved to correct location and is legible.

Utilizes price estimation tool, when applicable, as part of the registration process to provide the most accurate estimate to patients

Meets departmental target for up front collections to include deposits, estimated amounts due, co-pays, and/or prior balances.

Actively participates in departmental QA by utilizing system work queues, making a personal effort to reduce individual errors, and making corrections. Utilizes system work queues as a daily part of the registration process to minimize errors.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

  • High School Diploma or GED

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • Require two (2) years of customer service and/or clerical experience

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Johnston Health

Organization Unit: Patient Registration

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours Per Week: 4.00

Salary Range: $18.84 - $26.77 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Smithfield

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 655 open Patient Registration jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$18.84–26.77/hr
  • US median$19–26/hr301 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $22.81/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Patient Registration hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 18 open Patient Registration jobs in North Carolina and 655 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Patient Registration postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (357 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 455 of the 655 open Patient Registration jobs (69%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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