Rep-Patient Financial

Albert Einstein Medical Center; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferson Health in Philadelphia seeks a Patient Financial Representative to interview patients and arrange payment methods or extended credits. You will monitor monthly payments, submit insurance claims, and manage pre-authorizations to support accurate accounts receivable.

This role covers in-person and follow-up billing tasks, including pre-visit registration for copay collections, daily deposits, and posting patient payments received by mail.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Experience in all phases of physician billing is required.
• Excellent organizational skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Interview patients to arrange methods of payment or extension of credit.
• Monitor monthly payments and collections, and post payments.
• Submit pre-authorizations and insurance claims, and follow up on denials.
• Register inpatient consults and perform pre-visit registration for copay collections.
• Enter insurance and patient payments received by mail.
• Pursue missing payments and resolve insurance denials.

Skills

Billing processes

Organizational skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Number of Positions In Requisition 1

Job Details

Patient Financial Representative Job Description

Interviews patients to arrange methods of payment or extension of credit, notes decision in patient's charts. Monitors monthly payments/collections, submits pre-authorizations, insurance claims, and monitors payments and accounts receivable. Registers inpatient consults. Pre-visit registration for copay collections and daily deposit of cash/check payments as well as entering insurance and patient’s payments received via mail. Pursues insurance missing payments and insurance denials. This position requires providing service to an age population; young adults to older adults (18-65+ yrs), in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served. This position requires providing service to the following age population(s) newborn to elderly in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served.

Education/Training/Experience

High school diploma or equivalent. Experience in all phases of physician billing is required. Including but not limited to charge entry, claims processing, payment posting, and the appeal/resubmission process for rejections and follow-up. Excellent organizational skills required.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America) Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Albert Einstein Medical Center Primary Location Address 5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Employer Information

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Equal Opportunity

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance. For more benefits information, please click here

Culture & Mission

In keeping with Jefferson's Mission, We Improve Lives, it is our goal to recruit, retain, develop and reward highly-qualified employees. If you are enthusiastic, caring and dedicated to service excellence, we invite you to consider joining Jefferson. Jefferson encourages its employees to expand their knowledge and develop their careers through growth opportunities and continuing education. With a long standing history, Jefferson has been advancing the medical field from the heart of Center City Philadelphia for nearly 200 years. Our Mission, We Improve Lives, expands to every corner of the organization. From our weekly farmer’s market, to our new Jefferson Accelerator Zone for innovation, our employees’ passion for the community is evident by the daily gestures towards our patients, students and each other.