Dental Practice Accountant

Sky Pediatric Dentistry; El Monte, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sky Pediatric Dentistry in El Monte, CA seeks an experienced healthcare accountant to manage financial operations for a dental practice. You will oversee accounting, billing, and revenue-cycle activities to ensure accurate financial records.

The role involves preparing P&L summaries, balance-sheet support, and reports for the CPA, while reviewing insurance claims, EOBs, and posting with precision. Collaboration with clinical leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field with 24+ months of accounting experience.
• CDBS and CDC certifications or equivalent dental certifications.
• Experience with QuickBooks and dental practice-management software.
• Knowledge of dental-insurance billing workflows and revenue-cycle processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and reconcile accounting records using QuickBooks Online or comparable software.
• Prepare P&L summaries, balance-sheet support, AR aging reports, and revenue-cycle reports for CPA review.
• Monitor outstanding claims, patient balances, insurance receivables, and posting discrepancies.
• Analyze production, collections, AR trends, and billing workflows; propose cash-flow improvements.

Skills

QuickBooks

Dental billing

Dental coding

Revenue cycle

Dentrix

Curve

Accounts receivable

Payroll

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

CDBS certification

CDC certification

Tools

Accounting software

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.