Account Representative-Insurance Collections Specialist - FT - Baptist M&S Imagi
USPI, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78201
Account Representative-Insurance Collections Specialist - FT - Baptist M&S Imaging Business Office
Provide quality, timely, courteous service, and optimum maintenance of patient accounts, including dissemination of information, billing services, follow-up, and collection of accounts receivable, bad debt, governmental, and contract compliance issues/guidelines Minimum Experience: 2 years of experience in hospital business office, insurance claims processing, physician office billing and/or hospital admitting and PC/CRT Preferred Experience: 3 years recent in hospital business office. Basic medical terminology; working knowledge of third-party payors, federal, state, and local billing regulations; and bilingual (English and Spanish) Shift: Days Hours: 8am to 5pm Required Skills: General Functions: Demonstrates required skills for communication with various health insurance providers Possesses moderate billing knowledge, with the ability to perform remittance review and analysis Follows-up on secondary insurance billing, Medicaid appeals and denials and commercial appeals Identifies late charges and credit corrections Adds insurance profiles Communicates appeals to insurance company regarding denials Department/Business Unit Functions: Verifies eligibility from various insurance agencies Retrieves patient accounts Addresses letters from Medicare, works with prompt pay issues Makes insurance follow-up calls Performs corrections and updates to the insurance master Files, faxes, copies and performs other clerical duties Performs data entry, work processing and correspondence duties Performs special projects as assigned Utilizes resources efficiently and effectively Maintains safe environment Participates in Performance Improvement activities
Provide quality, timely, courteous service, and optimum maintenance of patient accounts, including dissemination of information, billing services, follow-up, and collection of accounts receivable, bad debt, governmental, and contract compliance issues/guidelines Minimum Experience: 2 years of experience in hospital business office, insurance claims processing, physician office billing and/or hospital admitting and PC/CRT Preferred Experience: 3 years recent in hospital business office. Basic medical terminology; working knowledge of third-party payors, federal, state, and local billing regulations; and bilingual (English and Spanish) Shift: Days Hours: 8am to 5pm Required Skills: General Functions: Demonstrates required skills for communication with various health insurance providers Possesses moderate billing knowledge, with the ability to perform remittance review and analysis Follows-up on secondary insurance billing, Medicaid appeals and denials and commercial appeals Identifies late charges and credit corrections Adds insurance profiles Communicates appeals to insurance company regarding denials Department/Business Unit Functions: Verifies eligibility from various insurance agencies Retrieves patient accounts Addresses letters from Medicare, works with prompt pay issues Makes insurance follow-up calls Performs corrections and updates to the insurance master Files, faxes, copies and performs other clerical duties Performs data entry, work processing and correspondence duties Performs special projects as assigned Utilizes resources efficiently and effectively Maintains safe environment Participates in Performance Improvement activities