JOB TITLE: Billing Specialist
The Billing Specialist serves as a patient account rep coordinating with internal departments to verify coding and billing of services rendered and coordinating with insurance agencies to bring accounts up to date.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Verification of Benefits
- Checking eligibility and benefits verification, contacting patients and advising of amount due
- Patient Statements, including past due calls and collection action
- Preparing, reviewing, and transmitting claims using billing software, including electronic and paper claim processing (including secondary/tertiary/worker comp)
- Following up on unpaid claims
- Checking each insurance payment for accuracy, contacting insurance company if any discrepancy
- Researching and appealing denied claims.
- Answering patient or insurance questions (in person and over phone)
- Setting up patient payment plans
- Maintaining daily/monthly cash spreadsheets
- Preparing End of Month Reports
- Posting insurance and patient payments
- Entering charges
- ICD-10 and CPT knowledgeable
- Reviewing accounts for credits and preparing refunds
Experience/Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years medical billing experience
- HST/Waystar/Advantx experience a plus
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
- And more!
Equal Employment Opportunity & Work Force Diversity
Our organization is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, parental status, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic testing results or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. This practice relates to all personnel matters such as compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, layoffs, etc. Furthermore, our organization is committed to going beyond the legal requirements of equal employment opportunity to take positive actions which ensure diversity in the workplace and result in a multi-cultural organization.
This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve.
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