Cash Poster

HUMBOLDT GENERAL HOSPITAL • Winnemucca, NV

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The HGH Cash Poster is responsible for posting cash, checks, credit cards and adjustments to patient encounters. This role involves creating and working up daily deposit slips, making bank deposit runs, timely filing adjustments received from payers, working posting issues, and managing credit balances (self-pay and insurance). The Cash Poster will also retrieve mail from the hospital, post denials with reasons while posting remittances, handle recoupments, generate balancing reports from the patient accounting software system, and complete a daily balancing spreadsheet that incorporates daily deposits, payment postings, and payments received but not posted.

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• Two Years preferred experience
• Works well with numbers, aptitude for math, and ability to balance

Nice To Haves

• Preferred Education: Not specified
• Preferred Certifications/Licenses: Not specified

Responsibilities

• Retrieving mail from the hospital, sorting and distributing the mail accordingly to Business Office Staff members.
• Pulling deposit information from HGH banking institute for Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT’s) and Lockbox.
• Posting Cash Payments, Adjustments in Patient Accounting software system for EFT’s within 72 Hours and Lockbox and mailed checks within 24 Hours of receipt.
• Posting Denials from Remittance Advice with clear, precise documentation for patient account representatives and/or billers for follow-up purposes; then assigning encounter to Denial Work Queue according to type of denial.
• Noting encounters with credit balances for insurance payers or patient overpayments, documenting the amount and reason for overpayment, and providing relevant staff with copies of Remittance Advice or information for self-pay collectors. Assigning credit balances to appropriate Work Queues.
• Adjusting encounters to Timely Filing Adjustment if the Remittance Advice indicates claims were received past the Timely Filing Limits and there is no good faith reason to appeal. Assigning encounters to an insurance patient account representative if an adjustment is not made.
• Creating and writing-up Daily Deposit Slips and making bank runs to deposit monies received from point of service collections and checks received via mail.
• Generating Daily Balancing Reports from Patient Accounting software system.
• Updating Daily Balancing Deposit spreadsheet with all deposits received, payments posted and unposted payments – balancing daily to what was received in the bank.
• Working and maintaining the EOB Variance Work Queue.
• Monitoring the 835 Failure Work Queue and emailing the Revenue Cycle Director to file an SR with Cerner for clean-up if an 835 Failure File is received.
• Working encounters in the EOB Variance Work Queue accordingly.
• Working the Transaction Batch in Error Work Queue to balance and close the batch.
• Generating and reviewing AR reports for daily, weekly or month-end procedures/processes regarding payments and adjustments as requested by management.
• Maintaining confidentiality in all matters that include Patient Health Information and Employee Data.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees