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Position: Full Time Medical Billing Specialist
Department: Patient Accounting
Shift: Varied, Primarily Days
PURPOSE
Performs a specific operational responsibility within a functional unit within revenue cycle management including customer service, insurance billing and follow-up processes for commercial and government payers, insurance verification, cash application, credit balance resolution and/or account reconciliation.
Qualifications
Position: Full Time Medical Billing Specialist
Department: Patient Accounting
Shift: Varied, Primarily Days
PURPOSE
Performs a specific operational responsibility within a functional unit within revenue cycle management including customer service, insurance billing and follow-up processes for commercial and government payers, insurance verification, cash application, credit balance resolution and/or account reconciliation.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- An Associate's degree may offset one year of the experience requirement.
- A Bachelor's degree may offset the two-year experience requirement.
- Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
- Minimum two years of experience in a patient account or financial environment.
- Knowledge of patient accounts, which includes customer service, insurance processing, insurance verification and cash application.
- Knowledge of additional specialized function may be required such as third party payers, Medicare processing, hospital and physician billing and pricing, CPT4/ICD code application.
- Must have excellent verbal and communication skills.
- Competitive wages
- Medical/prescription insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Accident and critical insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- 403 (b) retirement with employer matching
- Tuition reimbursement
- Continuing education reimbursement
- Cafeteria discounts
- Employee Assistance Program