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Core Qualifications: Billing Specialist
We’re looking for a dedicated individual to join our team, playing a key role in our billing operations. You’ll be instrumental in ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
As part of your core duties, you’ll:
- Assist management with training new staff.
- Monitor and manage accounts by running weekly reports to keep content streamlined.
- Ensure all claims are verified, and edits are collected and released promptly.
- Provide monthly reports on billing edits to managing staff.
- Verify all controls are followed to prevent missed charges.
- Confirm that all payment reconciliation processes are adhered to at the clinics.
- Ensure all charges are entered in a timely manner.
- Review encounters for all pertinent information.
- Coordinate the correction of inaccurate vouchers and reconcile daily voucher reports.
- Adhere to University and unit-level policies and procedures, safeguarding University assets.
Department-Specific Functions
Your day-to-day will also involve:
- Reviewing and releasing all physician charges from assigned work queues promptly.
- Thoroughly reviewing encounters for complete patient demographics, guarantor and insurance details, place of service, referrals, claim info records, and managed care authorization requirements.
- Running insurance eligibility checks and resolving registration issues.
- Manually entering paper vouchers for any missing charges.
- Reviewing and correcting erroneous or rejected charges.
- Distributing credits from patient payments as needed.
- Assigning charges to cases and phases.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- High School diploma or equivalent (required).
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience (required).
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting procedures and principles.
- Strong ability to complete assignments accurately and with attention to detail.
- The capability to process and handle confidential information with discretion.
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Effective communication skills in both oral and written form.
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