COMMERCIAL BILLER SPEC - P/A

Alliance Community Hospital•Canton, OH

58d

About The Position

Patient accounting skills in four or more areas: 1. billing, 2. insurance collections, 3. customer service, 4. cash posting and 5. Administrative support. Responsibilities involve concentration on billing and insurance collections using computer-based applications to provide accelerated accounts receivable recovery. Improve cash flow and strengthen our financial position. Performs tasks required to ensure the systematic and timely insurance follow-up and resolution of all accounts in assigned inventory. Documents all collection activity in the patient accounting system. Maintaining compliance with government and contract regulations, and working with both internal and external customers. Provides customer service to internal and external customers to assist in the account resolution. Effectively collect and resolve patient accounts receivable and monitor A/R including aging. Efficiently handle inbound/outbound customer telephone calls. Resolve patient accounts by collecting payments and/or by contractual adjustments by obtaining insurance and/or third party information. Responsible for checking status and documenting all assigned insurance accounts and submitting claims for billing or rebilling electronic or hard copy. Keep insurance employees updated on specific insurance handling of specific accounts.

Requirements

Requires a minimum of two to three years of billing/ insurance collections
High school diploma or GED
Knowledge of claims review
Customer services
Cash posting
Ability to learn new programs and systems
Strong oral and written communications skills
Self directed and capable of working with minimal supervision
Ability to work well with others
Dependable in both production and attendance
Professional manner and appearance

Responsibilities

billing
insurance collections
customer service
cash posting
Administrative support
accelerated accounts receivable recovery
systematic and timely insurance follow-up and resolution of all accounts in assigned inventory
Documents all collection activity in the patient accounting system
Maintaining compliance with government and contract regulations
Provides customer service to internal and external customers to assist in the account resolution
Effectively collect and resolve patient accounts receivable and monitor A/R including aging
Efficiently handle inbound/outbound customer telephone calls
Resolve patient accounts by collecting payments and/or by contractual adjustments by obtaining insurance and/or third party information
Responsible for checking status and documenting all assigned insurance accounts and submitting claims for billing or rebilling electronic or hard copy
Keep insurance employees updated on specific insurance handling of specific accounts