Patient Accounts Representative - Full Time

Munising Memorial Hospital & Bay Care Clinic; Munising (MI); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Munising Memorial Hospital & Bay Care Clinic is seeking a billing specialist to provide professional billing assistance and customer service to patients, insurance representatives, and collection agencies. You will ensure billing data is correct and stays up-to-date with changes in the hospital billing system.

Responsibilities include preparing all inpatient/outpatient billings, posting adjustments, obtaining financial arrangements, verifying demographics and insurance, mailing statements, and

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a hospital billing office or equivalent.
• Associates degree preferred.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.

Responsibilities

• Prepares inpatient/outpatient billings for patient segment on time.
• Posts adjustments, refunds, bad debts, discounts and other admin adjustments.
• Obtains financial arrangements on personal pay patients and deductibles.
• Verifies demographics and insurance information for accuracy.
• Verifies insurance coverage on commercial plans.
• Follows up on all types of insurance.
• Mails statements to patients after generation.
• Mails collection letters and calls patients with outstanding payments.
• Responds professionally to inquiries about patient accounts.
• Maintains inpatient/outpatient billing files.

Skills

1 year hospital billing experience

Attention to detail

Maintains confidentiality

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associates degree preferred

Job description

Description

Provides professional billing assistance and customer service to patients, insurance representatives, and collection agencies. Ensures that the billing data is correct and stays up-to-date with changes in the hospital billing system.

Essential functions include but are not limited to:

• Prepares all inpatient/outpatient billings within their patient segment in a timely manner.
• Post all patient accounts adjustments, including refunds, bad debts, financial assistance, debits/credits (admin. adjustments), employee and other discounts
• Obtains financial arrangements on all personal pay patients and patient deductibles.
• Verifies all patient demographics and insurance information is correct.
• Verifies insurance coverage on commercial insurance.
• Follows up on all types of insurance.
• Mails statements to patients after being generated in a timely manner.
• Mails collection letters and makes phone calls to patients that have not made payments.
• Responds to all inquiries regarding patient accounts professionally, in a polite and timely manner.
• Prepares monthly write-off list.
• Sends appropriate accounts to the collection agency.
• Maintains inpatient/outpatient billing files.
• Remains knowledgeable of the fundamentals of hospital billing.
• Performs assigned duties independently with minimum supervision. Recognizes and performs duties that are not directly assigned.
• Able to adapt to change in workload without interference to the quality of work.

Requirements

Professional Requirements:

• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while on duty.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review and department in-services, as scheduled.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• This position is responsible for wholehearted, genuine operations of all aspects of the safety and health program – including compliance with rules and regulations- and for continuously practicing safety and health while performing their duties.
• Perform tasks which are supportive in nature to the essential functions of the job, but which may be altered or redesigned depending upon individual circumstances.

Regulatory Requirements:

• High school graduate or GED equivalent.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a hospital billing office or equivalent
• Associates degree preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting, standing and walking
• Requires normal vision range
• Requires hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity
• Requires repetitive motion, including data entry and filing.
• Ability to lift/push/pull a minimum of 10 pounds.