Customer Care Associate - Geisinger Health Plan

Job Title:                       Customer Care Associate

Location:                       Danville, PA

Department:                  Geisinger Health Plan - Customer Care Team

Work Schedule:             Days / Evenings

Work Type:                    Full Time

JOB SUMMARY:

The Customer Care Associate is the main point of contact a customer makes with the health plan.  They will provide exceptional customer service to customers by answering questions and/or resolving concerns through appropriate education, information, and follow-up. Must ensure customer satisfaction and a positive experience. The Customer Care Associate will be a subject matter expert in one or more of the health plan lines of business.

Must be capable of maintaining customer confidence by helping to protect the confidentiality of information coming into and being disseminated out of the department according to HIPAA/HITECH guidelines.

Actively participates in cross training, improving processes within the Customer Care Team. Responsible for attaining and maintaining key performance measures established for the Customer Care Team.

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Demonstrates excellent communication, problem solving, and customer-service skills within a team atmosphere.

Demonstrates excellent organizational, analytical and time management skills.

Demonstrates ability to multi-task.and function under pressure to ensure Health Plan goals are met.

Demonstrates competence in written, oral and electronic communication skills (interpersonal/communication and technological effectiveness competencies).

Demonstrates the ability to be flexible to change.

Demonstrates the ability to be a team player.

Strong keyboarding skills.

Demonstrates competence in maintaining department standards in a fast-paced office environment.

Demonstrates ability to be detail oriented.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Required Experience:      Minimum one-year customer service, hospital or insurance experience, including patient or public contact, required.

Required Education:       High School Diploma/GED

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Work is typically performed in an office environment.

 The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

GEISINGER HEALTH PLAN (GHP) is the health insurance component of Geisinger and serves over 460,000 members in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Begun in 1985, GHP provides high quality, affordable health-care benefits for businesses of all sizes, individuals and families, and Medicare beneficiaries.

About Geisinger: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver.  We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.