How patient services representatives help our patients

BY Amanda Swennes

Working as a patient services representative at MD Anderson is a little like doing a puzzle. But there's a catch: new pieces keep appearing, some disappear, and sometimes you get handed several identical pieces.

That's what our 15 full-time and three part-time patient services representatives face each day. Their puzzle is MD Anderson's 667 inpatient beds. The pieces are patients who need to be admitted.

Behind the scenes...

Learn what patient services representatives do at MD Anderson.

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