Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Patient Access Specialist: $37K median posted pay.
From 139 salary bands employers posted on 200 open patient access specialist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 24 | $40K | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Ensemblehp | 135 | — |
| Prisma Health | 32 | — |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | 11 | — |
| Umiami | 9 | — |
| Denverhealth | 5 | — |
| Luriechildrens | 2 | — |
| OneOncology | 1 | — |
| Kaweah Health | 1 | — |
| Connections Health Solutions | 1 | — |
| Boys Town | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open patient access specialist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Service | 184 | — |
| Insurance Verification | 183 | — |
| Billing | 174 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 135 | — |
| Reception Duties | 135 | — |
| Go | 135 | — |
| Experimentation | 135 | — |
| Quality Auditing | 135 | — |
| Patient Education | 135 | — |
| Auditing | 135 | — |
Where the work is
1% of these roles are remote.
- Remote1%2 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site38%76 roles
- Not stated61%122 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 200 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 139 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Patient Access Specialist (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.