Payment Poster

Job Details

Job Location:

Texas Regional Admin Office - Richardson, TX 75082

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: High School

Salary Range: $18.00 - $24.90 Hourly

Travel Percentage:
None

Job Shift: Day

Job Category:
Health Care

National Partners in Healthcare (NPH) is a progressive healthcare company specializing in anesthesiology. We partner with physicians and health systems to deliver high quality care, aligning synergies and best practices to achieve superior outcomes. As a leader in the industry, we believe in developing a foundation of trust, transparency, and excellence in everything we do. The success of our company has created excellent career advancement opportunities that support a healthy work/life balance.

Posts payments to patient accounts; keys and verifies insurance and patient payments in accurate and timely manner. Researches and processes all unidentified payments. Identifies and reports to supervisor any payment problems and discrepancies.

• Post insurance and personal payments to patient accounts; balance checks in imaging workflow environment
• Verify and write off any non-allowed charges billed to participating payers. Verify the patient responsibility
• Read and comprehend insurance company explanation of benefits
• Reconcile daily deposits to posted amounts; resolve discrepancies by appropriate department's monthly deadline
• Post rejections from insurance companies
• Process refunds for all overpaid accounts, unidentified and misdirected payments
• Research in the imaging system and find the remits for the suspended payments
• Call insurance companies to obtain copies of remits for suspended payments
• Review and make corrections on the trainees' batches as needed
• Look for the ERA files for the EFT payments and report the missing files to supervisor
• Identify the payor for the EFT payments and match them to the ERA files in the system, accurately. Identify and report the discrepancies in the ERA files to the supervisor.
• Maintains strictest confidentiality.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

High School graduate or equivalent

Minimum of (1) one year of experience in 3rd party billing. (2) two years preferred. experience in a healthcare business office, specifically collections and/or payment posting, is required. Working knowledge of Excel and Word is required.

• Knowledge of organization policies, procedures and systems
• Good understanding of the revenue cycle
• Thorough understanding and working knowledge of payor contracts and payer reimbursement policies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify trend and issues and ability to solutions to address issues
• Knowledge of contractual management practices
• Skill in computer applications including MS Word, MS Excel.
• Basic knowledge of managed care programs and billing requirements necessary.
• Analytical abilities required to identify and resolve underpayments relating to specific payers, coding issues, etc.
• Good mathematical skills a must.
• Skill in verbal and written communication.
• Skill in gathering and reporting information.
• Ability to work effectively with staff, physicians and external customers. Must display teamwork attitude and good inter-personal skills.
• Must have a pleasant disposition and high tolerance level.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Familiarity with basic medical terminology and concepts required
• Knowledge of CPT, ICD-9, and ASA coding.