Patient Accounts Representative

Saint Luke's Health System•Kansas City, MO

About The Position

The Patient Account Representative will be responsible for reviewing and auditing billing charges, billing, collection, straightforward coding, and all account receivable activities for the physician clinics within Saint Luke's Health System. Activities include, but are not limited to, entering charge demographics, troubleshooting charge related issues raised by clinic staff, responding to inbound and outbound billing calls from patients, payment posting, resolving payment credits, identifying and correcting medical claim errors that may prevent payment and identifying, correcting, and resubmitting medical claims denied by insurance companies. Resolving claim edits, working denials and appeals. Evaluation and coding of ICD, CPT, HCPCS. All coding initiatives, NCCI edits, incidentals/inclusive, and bundling rules, etc. Demonstrate competency for invalid diagnosis, modifiers, coding related issues. Preferred: Billing or Coding Certifications. Claim Edits • Responsible for researching patient billing claims to identify and correct coding/claim errors • Responsible for researching patient insurance coverage to identify and resubmit claims to fix coverage denials. • Research and outline documentation needed for respective payor organizations so that claims are processed correctly • Familiarity with NCCI edits, incidentals/inclusive, and bundling rules, etc. • Identify problem trends • Communicate with payors for resolution to complications with claims • Responsible for 277 EDI transactions/rejections • Working with EDI transactions • Payment posting corrections/adjustments and ability to distribute payments • Correct/enter charges • Work with multiple teams/departments to resolve issues • Payment plan or financial assistance coordination Insurance Denials and Follow-Up • Responsible for researching, identifying errors, and correcting claims denied by insurance companies. • Must be able to asses claim to determine when appropriate to make charge adjustments, void a charge, or escalate to the team lead and/or another medical billing team. • Responsible for writing appeal letters to insurance companies • Responsible for following up with insurance companies for no response claims. • Responsible for working with patient calls escalated from the Customer Service team regarding involving billing code issues. • Research refund request from payor organizations • Responsible for preliminary audit of billing code errors before claim submitted to the Coding team. • Responsible for routing complex claim denial to team lead and/or the appropriate medical billing team. • Responsible for identifying issues which can be resolved by programing software to prevent denials. • Responsible for becoming a subject matter expert on the payor policies. • Responsible for communicating and resolving problems with the provider representatives • Responsible for simple level coding, including diagnosis review, modifier applications, some CPT cod changes following process documents and payor policies

Requirements

Applicable Experience: 1 year
Demonstrate competency for invalid diagnosis, modifiers, coding related issues
Familiarity with NCCI edits, incidentals/inclusive, and bundling rules, etc.
Identify problem trends

Nice To Haves

Billing or Coding Certifications

Responsibilities

Reviewing and auditing billing charges
Billing
Collection
Straightforward coding
Account receivable activities
Entering charge demographics
Troubleshooting charge related issues raised by clinic staff
Responding to inbound and outbound billing calls from patients
Payment posting
Resolving payment credits
Identifying and correcting medical claim errors that may prevent payment
Identifying, correcting, and resubmitting medical claims denied by insurance companies
Resolving claim edits
Working denials and appeals
Evaluation and coding of ICD, CPT, HCPCS
Researching patient billing claims to identify and correct coding/claim errors
Researching patient insurance coverage to identify and resubmit claims to fix coverage denials
Research and outline documentation needed for respective payor organizations so that claims are processed correctly
Communicating with payors for resolution to complications with claims
Responsible for 277 EDI transactions/rejections
Working with EDI transactions
Payment posting corrections/adjustments and ability to distribute payments
Correct/enter charges
Working with multiple teams/departments to resolve issues
Payment plan or financial assistance coordination
Researching, identifying errors, and correcting claims denied by insurance companies
Assessing claim to determine when appropriate to make charge adjustments, void a charge, or escalate to the team lead and/or another medical billing team
Writing appeal letters to insurance companies
Following up with insurance companies for no response claims
Working with patient calls escalated from the Customer Service team regarding involving billing code issues
Research refund request from payor organizations
Preliminary audit of billing code errors before claim submitted to the Coding team
Routing complex claim denial to team lead and/or the appropriate medical billing team
Identifying issues which can be resolved by programing software to prevent denials
Becoming a subject matter expert on the payor policies
Communicating and resolving problems with the provider representatives
Simple level coding, including diagnosis review, modifier applications, some CPT cod changes following process documents and payor policies