Coord Ancillary RC- Patient Accounting

Overview

Trains section in duties, assists manager in the supervision of the staff, maintains time and attendance of department to ensure job coverage, ensures proper staff coverage is always maintained, ensures accounts are resolved properly and timely, works closely with various departments to resolve any issues that may arise within the department, helps maintain claims system by coordinating billing edits and bridge routines, helps maintain various host systems billing and collection dictionaries/profiles, maintains education and training of new staff, works with manager as well as Managed Care, Case Management, and Revenue Integrity departments with payer payment discrepancies and/or issues with account resolutions, comprehends and able to perform all job duties of the department

Education required: High School Diploma/GED

Education preferred: Prefer associates degree from an accredited college with some applicable college courses. Prefer applicant with certification in coding, physician office management, or applicable college courses

Experience: Proven applicable experience working in an environment that utilizes electronic billing, internal report archives, and tools for applicable database management strongly preferred. 3 to 5 years working experience of Hospital of Physician office billing and collection processes including producing account appeals with positive outcomes strongly preferred. Prefer a least 1 year of supervisory experience. Proven applicable experience of preparing complex correspondence to resolve accounts strongly preferred.

Effective communication skills verbally and written with internal Hospital departments, Physicians Offices, Patient, and Insurance payors. Must be able to effectively manage a large volume of accounts while maintaining a high accuracy and positive outcomes.

Additional skills/abilities:

• Must have knowledge of EXCEL and WORD
• Effective communication skills verbally and written with internal Hospital departments, Physician Offices, Patient, and Insurance payors
• Must be able to effectively manage a large volume of accounts while maintaining a high accuracy and positive outcomes