Billing Clerk

Vaco by Highspring; Highland Park (NJ); On-site; USD 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Billing / Accounts Receivable Specialist for a six-month temporary assignment in Highland Park, NJ. The role focuses on private-pay billing with some Medicare/Medicaid activity, supporting a centralized billing team across multiple nursing home locations.

Ideal candidates have healthcare billing experience or healthcare admin backgrounds and strong customer service and communication skills. Onsite, with opportunities to develop billing expertise.

Qualifications

• Healthcare experience is required.
• 1-2 years of billing, accounts receivable, or collections experience preferred.
• Experience with medical/hospital/senior living billing is strongly preferred.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Comfortable speaking with residents and families regarding billing matters.
• Basic Excel and email skills.
• PointClickCare experience is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support billing and accounts receivable activity for multiple nursing home locations.
• Process and review private-pay billing.
• Follow up on outstanding balances and assist with collections-related communication.
• Respond to billing questions from residents, families, and internal teams.
• Maintain accurate billing records and supporting documentation.
• Assist with account follow-up and issue resolution.
• Use Excel, email, and internal systems to track billing activity.
• Support the Billing Manager and centralized billing team with additional administrative tasks as needed.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Excel

Email

Billing experience

Accounts receivable

Collections

PointClickCare

Healthcare billing

Healthcare experience

Tools

PointClickCare

Job description

Client: Healthcare and senior living organization

Title: Billing / Accounts Receivable Specialist

Salary: $21-$25 per hour, depending on experience

Location: Highland Park, NJ | Fully onsite

Job Description:

A well-established healthcare and senior living organization is seeking a Billing / Accounts Receivable Specialist for a temporary assignment of approximately six months.

This role will support a centralized billing team serving multiple nursing home locations. The position is primarily focused on private-pay billing and collections, with limited Medicare and Medicaid activity, so strong communication and customer service skills are especially important.

The team is open to candidates with prior healthcare billing experience, as well as more junior candidates who have healthcare administrative or reception experience and are looking to grow into billing.

Responsibilities

• Support billing and accounts receivable activity for multiple nursing home locations.
• Process and review private-pay billing.
• Follow up on outstanding balances and assist with collections-related communication.
• Respond to billing questions from residents, families, and internal teams.
• Maintain accurate billing records and supporting documentation.
• Assist with account follow-up and issue resolution.
• Use Excel, email, and internal systems to track billing activity.
• Support the Billing Manager and centralized billing team with additional administrative tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Healthcare experience is required.
• 1-2 years of billing, accounts receivable, or collections experience preferred.
• Experience with medical, hospital, senior living, nursing home, or other healthcare billing is strongly preferred.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Comfortable speaking with residents and families regarding billing matters.
• Strong attention to detail and organization.
• Basic Excel and email skills.
• PointClickCare experience is helpful but not required.

By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

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Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations; and
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).