Customer Service Rep

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $20.94 - $29.27

Schedule Details: Monday through Friday

Scheduled

Hours:

8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 40

Cost Center: 99940 - 5430 Single Billing Office

Union: SHARE (State Healthcare and Research Employees)

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

• Responds to patient/responsible party inquiries/requests for both physician and hospital accounts received via telephone, mail, email and in person by accessing the billing system.
• Accesses other relevant vendor applications, such as internal and external databases to assist in the resolution of patient inquiries.
• Operates within the protocols for a call distribution center.
• Works assigned system work queues within established protocols.
• Processes the patient correspondence patient voice mail, and patient emails for Single Billing Office.
• Communicates with other areas of the revenue cycle to resolve patient inquiries.
• Performs insurance eligibility and insurance updates, money transfers, account adjustments, reviewing of patient EOBs, processing of credit card phone payments, updates to demographic information, establishes payment plans, requests for patient refunds, and updates to guarantor information.
• Handles walk-in patient inquiries on-site and in-person.
• Documents all actions taken in billing system.
• Completes daily statistic summary report.

• Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
• Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
• Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
• Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
• Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are:
Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All…