Patient Access Representative Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

MedicalBillingHires had 3,048 open patient access representative listings from 234 employers on November 5, 2026.

792 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 1,805 in the previous 30 days.

At least 31.3% of patient access representative listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit patient access representative listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was health insurance, in 31.2% of listings, followed by paid time off (24.1%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all patient access representative listings.

BLS publishes no patient access representative-only wage, so the figure here is for receptionists and information clerks (SOC 43-4171), a broad proxy (BLS has no patient access occupation) that covers receptionists in every industry.

The median wage for that occupation was $18.27 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Receptionists and Information Clerks (SOC 43-4171), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $16.33 to $21.70 an hour.

Florida had the most open patient access representative listings on November 5, 2026, with 212 (7% of the national total).

Texas followed with 211 (6.9%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with patient access representative openings in Florida.

234 employers had open patient access representative listings on MedicalBillingHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 23.8% of them.

38 employers (16.2%) had exactly one open patient access representative listing.

Receptionists and information clerks, the nearest BLS code for patient access staff, earned a median of $18.27 an hour in May 2025; those in health care and social assistance earned a median of $19.00 an hour (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

Receptionists held about 947,500 jobs in 2025, self-employed included, and 42% of them were in health care and social assistance (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

BLS projects employment of receptionists and information clerks to decline 1.7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 105,100 openings a year from replacement needs (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid patient access representative listing on MedicalBillingHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all patient access representative jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no patient access occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for receptionists and information clerks (SOC 43-4171), a broad proxy that spans every industry, not a count of patient access staff. OEWS covers payroll employees only.