Description:

The Patient Account Representative works in the Central Billing Office (CBO) providing billing services such as the processing and submission of patient charges and appropriate follow up with insurance companies and patients. The Patient Account Representative provides outstanding service to both internal and external customers utilizing the telephone as their primary source of communication.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Demonstrates Proficient Use of Practice Management Software: Efficient utilization of billing system database to update facility file and patient demographic information; assures correct balance of charge and payment batches, bank deposits, and proper reconciliation. Ability to edit a claim and send/receive claim notes in the billing system.

Competence with Insurance Issues: Demonstrated ability to post charges, payments, adjustments, and knows how to work unpostables. Understands the credit, collection, and zero pay work lists and knows how to effectively use them. Demonstrates the ability to understand and utilize kick codes correctly and shows competence with coding knowledge.

Organization Efficiency: Effectively maintains collections and follow up account activity by ensuring the proper organizations, tracking, filing and documenting of all correspondence.

Demonstrated ability to utilize Outlook email and navigate in the Word and Excel software applications.

Demonstrates Competence with the Collection Process: Responds to patient billing and insurance inquiries and facilitates resolution of financial issues promptly.

Demonstrates basic knowledge in interpreting and understanding billing slips and the Athena workflow dashboard.

Business Operations: Accurately completes payment/deposit batches with proper allocation of monies. Completes and understands month end productivity and statistical reports. Understands applicable financial p

Skills:

Epic, medical billing, Healthcare

Top Skills Details:

Epic,medical billing,Healthcare

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Educational/Experience Requirements:

High school diploma or GED

Two to four years of billing experience including ICD9, CPT coding and medical terminology or related experience. Experience operating multi-line phone system, fax machine, photocopier, and PC. Experience with Microsoft Office, Word and Excel. Ability to communicate professionally via internet. Ability to operated PC efficiently and type 40 wpm.

Experience Level:

Expert Leve

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.