Medical Debt Collections Call Center Agent

HCA Healthcare; Florida; Remote; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with employer match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

HCA Healthcare seeks a Patient Account Collections Specialist to perform outbound calls and resolve patient receivables from a work-from-home setup within an HCA hospital market area. You will manage accounts, communicate outcomes, and uphold service standards.

The role emphasizes customer service excellence, problem resolution, and collaboration with team members to maintain production targets in a healthcare revenue environment.

Qualifications

• Prior call center experience preferred.
• Minimum one-year related experience preferred, preferably in healthcare.
• Experience with healthcare revenue space collections preferred.
• Bilingual is not required, but a plus.

Responsibilities

• Refer calls/accounts to appropriate parties based on inquiries; spend 90% of the day on the phone.
• Identify problem accounts and elevate as appropriate.
• Update the patient account record with actions taken.
• Work with patients and guarantors to secure payment on balances.
• Maintain minimum production standards; achieve quality review scores.
• Produce acceptable unit collection volumes and adhere to attendance guidelines.

Skills

Call center experience

Healthcare collections

Customer service

Bilingual (optional)

Job description

This Work from Home position requires that you live and will perform the duties of the position; within 60 miles of an HCA Healthcare Hospital (Our hospitals are located in the following states: FL, GA, ID, KS, KY, MO, NV, NH, NC, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA).

Schedule:

• Full-time position that requires 1 mid / evening shift/per week/on a Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday,or Thursday 11am- 9pm CST

• 1 Saturday per month Hours between 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CST.

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a Patient Account Collections Specialist you will be responsible for outbound calls with account follow-up and resolution of patient receivables while providing excellent customer service. This position is work from home; must live within an HCA Healthcare hospital market area.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Refer calls/accounts to appropriate parties based on customer inquiries. You will spend 90% of your day on the phone.
• Identify problem accounts and elevate as appropriate.
• Update the patient account record to identify actions taken on the account.
• Work with patients and guarantors to secure payment on outstanding account balances.
• Maintain minimum production standards.
• Achieve passing quality review scores per unit requirements.
• Produce acceptable unit collection volumes.
• Work within company attendance guidelines.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Work with other team members and management in a professional manner.?

Qualifications:

• Previous Call Center experience preferred.
• Minimum one-year related experience preferred, preferably in healthcare.
• Experience with collections in healthcare revenue space is preferred.
• BILINGUAL is not required, but a plus

Benefits

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

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms 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 supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor 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.

Parallon provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers and their communities.

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.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - 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.