Business Office Clerk - Non Un

Overview

The Business Office Clerk is responsible for maintaining current, timely, and accurate patient accounts receivable to include billing, filing, recording payments and making other adjustments as necessary.

• Interview patients, relatives or others responsible to determine payment arrangements and refer unusual cases to immediate supervisor.
• Communicate with ancillary services to ensure appropriate charges have been made.
• Post late charges, anesthesia/CRNA charges, payments and adjustments daily to proper patient accounts.
• Correctly submit claims to correct payor and address in time frame set by policies and procedures.
• Perform cashier duties, e.g., receipts of payments and issuance of receipts, collection of monies from other areas and prepare daily bank deposit.
• Maintain applicable files and reports of adjustments to accounts receivable.
• Maintain required registers of Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance, Workers Compensation, Central Collection Services and others as necessary.
• Contact patients, doctors, or others for information necessary to properly complete insurance or other type billings, and rebilling in the prescribed time frame.
• Answer inquiries on patient accounts and advise patient on insurance benefits within HIPAA guidelines.
• Clear with Health Information Administrator, before preparing and submitting, all required medical data with billings.
• May assist with preparation of advance deposit memoranda and recommended account write-offs.
• Prepare required reports as necessary.
• Type memos, correspondence, billing forms, etc., and operate postage meter, fax machine, computer terminals and printers.
• May prepare outgoing mail.
• May assist Admissions as well as other MPAS departments.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

POSITION

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Must possess physical abilities to endure prolonged sitting, moderate walking and standing, bending, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling; exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent.
• Preferably one year's experience in billing and experience in Microsoft Word & Excel. Health care billing experience preferred.
• Must have knowledge of medical terminology, ICD-10 and CPT codes as pertains to billing.
• Must be familiar with UB04 and HCFA competition.
• Must be computer literate in Word and Excel.
• Ability to operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and fax machine.
• Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training as required to attain proficiency in performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

Entry level

Full-time

Administrative

Hospitals and Health Care