Office Assistant ; Calculations

Office Assistant 2 (Calculations)

• Syracuse

• Administrative, Secretarial & Clerical

• Full-time

• Opening on:
  Feb 17 2025

• Financial Services-Patient
• State of New York
• Office Assistant 2 (Calculations), SG009
• 83357
• CSEA - ASU (Administrative Services Unit)

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Job Summary:

Under the general guidance of the Financial Services Management Team, the Payer Collection Clerk independently reviews open hospital accounts to ensure they have been billed in accordance with appropriate Federal, State, third party payor and Financial Services rules, regulations and procedures as well as that any correspondence, denials or third party payments have been processed correctly. It is the responsibility of the Payer Collection Clerk to contact the insurance carrier that has been billed and determine the reason for the unpaid balance and resolve based on these findings.

The Payer Collection Clerk will use independent judgment to take various actions such as faxing information to the payer, preparing an appeal or referring the account for self pay collection to the Attorney Generals Office or other collection agency. The Payer Collection Clerk is also responsible to update any account with new or corrected insurance information once it has been billed.

This information may be identified through correspondence, phone calls or internal departments. Process incoming correspondence and recoupment requests from third-party payers.

For consideration for this title, you must meet one of the following minimum qualifications:

NYS Department of Civil Service Eligible list or eligible for transfer

Or

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Must be a qualified employee of New York State and have had one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service as an office assistant, clerical or keyboarding title allocated to Grade 5 or higher. Qualifying titles are available at: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..cfm

Or

Open competitive (Non-competitive, NY HELPS)

Qualifications:

One year of clerical experience where majority of work time is spent performing mathematical operations, and/or clerical activities related to mathematical operations.

Schedule based on a 40 hour work week. Monday – Friday between the hours of 8:00am – 4:30pm

Position Status:
Permanent

Salary: SG09 $ 41,399

Position is located in The Galleries

Human Resources

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