Description

 About Providence Anesthesiology Associates

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Providence Anesthesiology Associates (PAA) is an independent physician owned practice compromised of over 100 anesthesiologists. Founded in 1991, PAA provides anesthesia and perioperative care at numerous healthcare facilities throughout North and South Carolina, serving more than 150,000 patients annually.
PAA continues to experience impressive growth and success. Our anesthesiologists are among the most elite in their field. Our physicians are committed to providing the best culture and experience to their employees. Awarded one of the Top Workplaces in 2021 - 2023, PAA’s core values include commitment, accountability, performance, integrity, transparency, adaptability, and leadership. We do what’s right and don’t compromise.

What’s in it for you?

• Strong workplace culture. We care about each other as people. We build relationships and connections beyond the time spent on the job. We offer a supportive, highly team-oriented work environment.
• We provide competitive total rewards including salary, benefits – Day 1, retirement, profit sharing, life insurance, paid time off, holidays, education reimbursement, employee recognition for birthdays and anniversaries, fun team building events, and more.
• We want you to succeed and our employer to employee relationship is proven to help you reach your goals and the goals of PAA.

Summary: The Billing Specialist is responsible for accurately processing patient information to ensure accurate and compliant billing for office and hospital procedures. The Billing Specialist analyzes medical documentation, researches insurance guidelines, and focuses on improving the effectiveness of billing processes. The position requires attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and dependability.

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Performs daily billing activities to ensure successful processing and payment of claims for multiple external clients.
• Ensures claim information is complete and accurate for charge entry and data enters key demographic information necessary for insurance claim processing.
• Verifies all patient benefits, eligibility, and coverage to ensure accurate billing.
• Audits completeness and accuracy of all claims prior to submission to claims clearinghouse.
• Reports billing changes, billing issues, and process improvement plan accomplishment to Billing Services Supervisor.
• Ensures compliance with all Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned within the scope of responsibility.

Minimum Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to a satisfactory standard. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education: High school diploma required. Associates degree preferred.

Experience: One (1) to three (3) years medical billing experience and medical terminology is required.

License/Certification: N/A

Language Skills: Demonstrated ability to exercise professional oral and written communication skills with all internal and external audiences.

Computer Skills: Experience with medical billing software systems is required. Strong Microsoft Excel skills is required. Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint are required.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to organize and manage personal workload. Ability to achieve and maintain strong working knowledge of anesthesia billing operation practices.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by any employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time and up to the entire shift. Travel is primarily local during the day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel for conferences may be required. Air travel may also be required.

What else should you know?

Providence Anesthesiology Associates is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination based on any protected status.

PAA participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is an internet-based system that compares the information you provide on the Form I-9 with information from the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security records.