Billing Specialist

HCA Healthcare; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

North Florida Outpatient Imaging Center, part of HCA Healthcare, seeks a Billing Specialist to manage daily account activities and aging receivables. You will monitor data accuracy, contact insurers for claim status, and ensure timely releases of payments while maintaining compliance with policies.

The role requires at least 2 years of related experience, strong communication and customer service skills, and proficiency with medical billing processes.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated communications and customer service skills.
• Ability to organize work effectively and multi-task.

Responsibilities

• Report daily account and center activities to center director.
• Analyze and report trends in accounts to the director.
• Monitor aging of accounts receivable and ensure timely collections.
• Contact insurance carriers for claim status and resolve deficiencies.
• Respond promptly to insurance/patient correspondence and manage collection letters.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Organizational skills

Computer skills

Multi-tasking

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Billing Specialist you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join North Florida Outpatient Imaging Center which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary And Qualifications

JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Report daily account and center activities to center director.
• Analyze and report trends, both negative and positive with account s to director.
• Monitor progress of each department making sure aged receivables are being worked systematically for completion on a daily

basis.

• Monitor data input for accuracy, demographics, charges, adjustments, and credits.
• Contact insurance carriers by phone for claim status and resolve deficiencies for release of payment when the efforts from all

other billing personnel have been exhausted.

• Respond in a timely manner to all insurance /patient correspondence.
• Manage the processes related to collection letters on past due accounts.
• Review aging of A/R on a monthly basis and recommend, to director, accounts to be written off to bad debt per policy and

procedure.

• Monitor productivity of billing employees.
• Establish productivity goals or targets along with director.
• Monitor and audit activities to ensure compliance with state and federal government regulations and billing and collection

policies and procedures.

• Complete in a timely and organized manner all filing of documentation required by any of the above duties.
• Responsible for end of month closing activities for all centers billed and generated of all account receivable and operational

reports including special randomly requested reports.

• Aggressively collects accounts receivables.
• Establish and/or achieve cash targets.
• Process daily billing computer system back up.
• Performs other related functions as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED:

High School Graduate or GED.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED OR PREFERRED:

2 years related experience.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:

Demonstrated communications and customer service skills, success in organizing work, computer skills, and ability to multi-task.

General knowledge of automated medical billing procedures, ICD-9 coding and CPT codes. Ability to understand accounts receivable and related financial reports and information in order to ensure prompt and correct reporting or revenue and statistical data.

Benefits

North Florida Outpatient Imaging Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida North Florida Hospital is a 523-bed, full-service medical and surgical acute care center. For over 49 years, we have served North Central Florida. We offer comprehensive cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, and neurosciences. We offer minimally-invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery, weight loss surgery and treatment. Other services that we provide include women’s health and wound therapy. We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission and certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Our hospital has an Accredited Chest Pain Center by ACC (American College of Cardiology) and is designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery. We are committed to patient safety and quality of care. We have received the highest scores available in recognition of this commitment.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.