Revenue Cycle Specialist I (Cash Management)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center•Los Angeles, CA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Cedars Sinai is seeking a Revenue Cycle Specialist I (Cash Management) to provide billing support to Patient Financial Services. This role involves payment posting to support revenue cycle operations, identifying denials for follow-up, performing account follow-up activities, and updating account information. Positions at this level require a basic knowledge of the assigned area, a general understanding of department functions and the revenue cycle, and the ability to organize, prioritize, and perform work in a timely manner within established guidelines. The role may involve cross-training in other office functions and providing back-up coverage. Responsibilities include participating in department meetings, providing feedback for process improvement, adhering to instructions, documentation standards, and activity codes, correctly entering data, and maintaining speed and accuracy. The specialist will effectively monitor work queues, ensure timely and accurate account resolution, advance issues to supervisors, process incoming correspondence accurately, ensure complete and accurate account information, adhere to payment timeline protocols, and assist team members. A detailed knowledge of Cedars-Sinai core patient accounting systems and/or department-specific systems is expected.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required
A minimum of 1 years of hospital or professional billing and/or collections experience is required

Nice To Haves

Associate degree or college diploma preferred
A minimum of two years of hospital billing or collections preferred
Experience in cash management, payment posting and interpreting and explaining EOBs a plus

Responsibilities

Payment posting to support revenue cycle operations
Identify denials for follow up
Performing account follow up activities
Updating information on accounts
Organize, prioritize and perform work in a timely manner within established guidelines, practices and procedures
Participates in department meetings and provides feedback to management on how to improve department processes
Adheres to instructions, verbal and written, to achieve desired results
Adheres to documentation standards of the department and properly uses activity codes
Correctly enters data in fields
Maintains acceptable levels of speed and accuracy
Effectively monitors assigned work queues and workload, ensuring resolve of accounts in a timely and accurate manner
Takes initiative on issues and/or problems by advancing them to supervisor
Processes incoming correspondence, based on reason code, timely and accurately
Ensures information on the account is complete and accurate
Adheres to payment timeline protocol
Assists other team members with resolution of accounts when needed
Demonstrates detailed knowledge of Cedars-Sinai core patient accounting systems and/or department specific systems and uses them effectively and efficiently