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Long Island Community Hospital has served this richly diverse region as a patient-first community hospital for more than 60 years. As Long Island's only independent community hospital, we are 100% committed to becoming the community's healthcare provider of choice with our greatly enhanced services including the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, our highly-advanced heart disease diagnosis and treatment facility, our new modern surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, and our high-touch services including women's imaging, sleep laboratory and orthopedics and more.

These services are delivered with the highest level of compassion by our LI Community Hospital staff - Long Islanders with an unmistakable mix of courage and heart who care about the people right here in our community and whose sole purpose is to provide personalized comfort.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Patient Accounts Supervisor - Full Time Days 9AM-5PM Monday through Friday - Inpatient Billing.

• Billing Services:
  Submit clear and accurate claims to third party carriers on a timely basis.
• Utilize electronic follow-up system to perform billing activities.
• Confirm receipt of third party claims and re-bills claims as necessary.
• Be cognizant of time limits currently in effect for all billing activities and monitor for compliance.
• Troubleshoot problematic accounts.
• Account Review:
  Review assigned accounts in Epic and third party remittances to determine accounts requiring action.
• Verify accurate charge posting and claims submission.
• Analyze any open balances and/or ensure accurate payment posting.
• Complete appropriate follow-up action as necessary.
• Document all actions taken on accounts in the billing system.
• Perform root cause analysis with a solutions focus.
• Operations:
  Supervise the daily operations of the team including all staff, AR follow-up and agencies.
• Develop and maintain productivity standards for areas of direct responsibility and monitor adherence to those standards.
• Manage internal/external correspondence:
  Respond to internal communications in a timely and compliant manner; provide appropriate documents requested by payers or other parties.
• Monitor staff attendance and punctuality on a regular basis and maintain payroll system for department.
• Hold monthly staff and agency meetings.
• Staff Performance:
  Provide coaching and feedback to staff in areas of responsibility and complete probationary and annual performance appraisals for staff.
• Monitor staff and agency performance through monthly audits and random reviews.
• Conduct individual monthly meetings with staff to review results and provide feedback, including steps and solutions to address any issues.
• Analytics:
  Perform data mining and in-depth accounts receivable analysis.
• Identify proper criteria for running, reviewing and assigning reports as necessary.
• Providing information people need to know to do their jobs and make accurate decisions.
• Write clearly and succinctly and ensure messages come across with the desired effect.
• Customer Service:
  Demonstrate a high level of commitment to customer service in responding to the needs of internal and external parties or departments.
• Provide and solicit correct information as needed or requested.
• Training:
  Develop and maintain staff training plans and documents.
• Provide feedback to Management regarding training needs and opportunities.
• Provide training tools to other departments as necessary.
• Special projects as assigned by Management:
  Complete projects in a timely and organized manner as assigned by management and delegate projects if necessary.
• Compliance:
  Adhere to compliance and departmental policies and procedures including compliance with 100% of HIPAA requirements, required trainings, and other Hospital mandated activities.

• Associates Degree and/or 3-5 years of medical billing and collections experience.
• Knowledge of PC applications and Microsoft Office Suite.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Supervisory experience, at least one year.
• Industry certification (AHIMA, HFMA, AAPC, etc.).
• EHR experience (Epic preferred).
• ePremis billing software experience.

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