What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supervisor Professional Billing position at Akron Children's?
Full time, 40 hours/week
Remote position (must reside within commutable distance to Akron Ohio, will be onsite as needed for meetings, trainings, etc)
Summary
The Professional Billing Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the claims management and insurance follow-up processes. This supervisor works closely with the Manager, Professional Billing to manage the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of staff members. This role also supervises staff to ensure quality performance and promotes awareness of departmental processes, policies, and goals.
Responsibilities
Technical Expertise
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Remote
Remote position (must reside within commutable distance to Akron Ohio, will be onsite as needed for meetings, trainings, etc)
Summary
The Professional Billing Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the claims management and insurance follow-up processes. This supervisor works closely with the Manager, Professional Billing to manage the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of staff members. This role also supervises staff to ensure quality performance and promotes awareness of departmental processes, policies, and goals.
Responsibilities
- Adds value as a key member of management; understands the business, financials, industry, customers, and strategy.
- Supervises and provides daily guidance to the Billing Collection Representatives and liaisons with the Revenue Recovery Supervisor for denials management.
- Ensures staff are actively and appropriately communicating with payers regarding delayed, denied and underpaid claims to promote timely reimbursement.
- Works closely with the Billing Collection representatives and Revenue Cycle Management to determine revenue enhancement and educational opportunities.
- Provide monthly departmental reporting for quality and productivity standards, denial management, and performance improvement reports to Revenue Cycle leaders as needed.
- Verbal and/or Written Reporting Duties
- 7.Oversees recruiting, hiring, and training practices; monitors and provides performance appraisal for new staff
- Supervises and provides daily guidance to the professional Billing Collection Representatives
- Fosters a collaborative environment that encourages teamwork, communication, performance recognition, and attention to goals; works to achieve and maintain department and division goals and thresholds.
- Meets regularly with leadership from other departments to review performance, align strategies, identify best practices and improve collections.
- Identifies Epic System improvement and workflow opportunities
- Adds value as a key member of management; understands the business, financials, industry, customers and strategy.
- Prepares, manages, and adheres to department budget to maintain expenditure controls.
- Works with manager to develop, review, and revise policies and procedures to maintain the efficacy of the department.
- Other duties as required.
Technical Expertise
- Superior knowledge of payer guidelines, reimbursement, follow-up, and collections practices and experience working with third-party and governmental payers
- Experience in denials management preferred.
- Experience in coding, billing, compliance, and reimbursement is required.
- Experience researching for revenue enhancement opportunities is required.
- Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
- Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent is required. Associates or Bachelor's degree in business, accounting or related experience preferred.
- Years of relevant experience: 3 to 5 years is preferred.
- Years of experience supervising: 0 to 2 years is preferred.
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Remote