Dental Practice Accountant

University of Minnesota School of Dentistry; El Monte, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Minnesota School of Dentistry is seeking a financial professional to manage dental revenue-cycle accounting and reporting. You will maintain accounting records in QuickBooks Online, reconcile deposits and payroll entries, and prepare P&L and balance-sheet support for the outside CPA.

You will monitor claims and payments, analyze AR trends, and propose improvements to cash flow and billing workflows within a hospital-affiliated dental program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, Economics, Business Administration with an accounting concentration, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 24 months of experience in accounting or related roles.
• CDBS and CDC certifications, or equivalent dental billing/coding certifications.
• Experience with QuickBooks or comparable accounting software; familiarity with dental practice management systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and reconcile accounting records using QuickBooks Online or comparable software, including deposits, payments, payroll-related entries, and bank activity.
• Prepare P&L summaries, balance-sheet support, AR aging, production/collection reports, and reports for external CPA; review claims, EOBs, postings, denials, and appeals for accuracy.
• Monitor outstanding claims, delayed payments, patient balances, insurance receivables, and posting discrepancies.
• Analyze production, collections, AR trends, and billing workflows; recommend improvements to cash-flow and collections processes.

Skills

Accounting

Revenue-cycle accounting

Dental billing/coding

Financial reporting

Bank reconciliation

Payroll-related accounting

Accounts receivable

Accounts payable

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CDBS certification

CDC certification

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Dentrix

Curve

Job description

• Maintain and reconcile accounting records using QuickBooks Online or comparable software; reconcile deposits, insurance payments, patient payments, vendor payments, payroll-related entries, and bank-account activity.
• Prepare profit-and-loss ("P&L") summaries, balance-sheet support, accounts-receivable aging reports, production and collection reports, payment-posting summaries, and reports for the employer's outside CPA. Review claims, explanations of benefits ("EOBs"), payment postings, write-offs, adjustments, denials, appeals, and preauthorization records for accounting and revenue cycle accuracy.
• Monitor outstanding claims, delayed payments, patient balances, insurance receivables, and payment-posting discrepancies.
• Analyze production, collections, accounts-receivable trends, and billing workflows, and recommend improvements to cash-flow and collections processes.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree, or a foreign equivalent degree, in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, Economics, Business Administration with an accounting concentration, or a closely related field, plus at least24 months of experience in accounting, bookkeeping, dental revenue-cycle accounting, dental billing/coding, healthcare revenue-cycle financial operations, or a closely related role. The position also requires:

• Certified Dental Billing Specialist ("CDBS") and Certified Dental Coding Specialist ("CDC") certifications, or equivalent dental billing and dental coding certifications;
• Experience with accounting, bookkeeping, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll-related accounting, vendor-payment tracking, bank reconciliation, financial reporting, dental-insurance claim workflows, insurance-payment posting, denial and appeal workflows, benefits verification, and dental revenue-cycle documentation;
• Experience using QuickBooks or comparable accounting software;
• Experience using Dentrix, Curve, or comparable dental practice-management software;

• Knowledge of dental procedure coding and dental-insurance billing workflows.