What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hospital Patient Billing position at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Receive and respond to inquiries via phone, writing, or in-person and include complete reviews of accounts in question for pertinent billing, insurance, and collection information.
- Reviews Tax Debt Set-Off matches for accuracy and verification of debt and prepares and mails letters to patients
- Serves as a direct patient contact for the Tax Debt Set-off program
- Make necessary revisions on accounts in question, such as adding insurance and other patient demographic information, plan codes, changing FCs, performing balance transfers, sending hard copies to Imaging, and routing account information to other Patient Accounts billing units for further development
- Document customer inquiries/concerns in a precise, complete, and accurate manner
- Recognize important customer services issues and inform the Billing Manager in a timely fashion
- Practice problem recognition and resolution; identify the root causes of inadequacies and participate in quality assurance programs to improve job performance and department efficiency.
- Process assigned insurance refunds and MAMSI and Anthem denials
- Handle all physician billing and special programs such as Champus, Tricare and Employee Health
- Monitor and work on assigned special projects and reports
- Maintain USPS rejects and Document Imaging
- Handles all patient correspondence
- Monitor missing cash in the unapplied cash account
- Knowledge of medical terminology, ICD-10, CPT-4 and HCPC coding
- Working knowledge of UB 04 and 1500 claim forms
- Process attorney requests and correspondence
- Maintains and processes bankruptcy and decease accounts appropriately and according to law
Education and Experience
Minimum Required Education: High school diploma
Preferred Education: College courses or associates degree
Experience: 3 years in hospital billing and working knowledge of third-party payer regulations
Preferred: Epic HB Experience
Preferred: Bilingual skills
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
There are no certifications/licensures required for this position.
Preferred CRCS AAHAM
Experience
Required- 3 year(s): hospital billing and working knowledge of third-party payer regulations
Education
Required- High School or better
Equal Opportunity Employer
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