Billing Analyst - Estimates

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences•Little Rock, AR

About The Position

The Billing Analyst provides comprehensive support for finance and patient care activities and performs all tasks related to the effective and accurate communication of patient out-of-pocket costs for hospital and physician services; performs all tasks related to the estimates process. The Billing Analyst also handles various other support duties within the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business plus 1 year of experience in a healthcare revenue cycle related or bookkeeping function or related field or high school diploma or equivalent plus 5 years of relevant experience
Computer skills in data entry, charge entry, medical office and/or hospital billing
Must be able to sit continuously and work on a computer for an 8 hour day

Nice To Haves

Coding certification

Responsibilities

Review the scheduled service for a patient’s upcoming appointment and select the CPT codes for the service that is scheduled.
Review the insurance section of EPIC to determine if the patient is self-pay/out of network or insurance.
Create estimate and verify contact information is in EPIC to text/email estimate for patients that are self-pay/out of network.
Confirm patient receives the estimate.
Transfer patient chart to Pre-Registration for patients with insurance for verification prior to patient appointment.
Responsible for customer service calls to patients about the estimate process.
Must understand insurance and in network/out of network and how it impacts the estimate process.
Must understand the charge-master and how the clinical billing pricing structure works to explain to patients calling about their charges and financial responsibility.
Perform other duties as assigned.