Workers' Compensation Medical Legal Specialist

Socket.dev; West Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with profit sharing

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO up to 22 days

Job summary

DMOS is seeking a Medical-Legal Specialist for our West Des Moines office. This full-time role serves as an in-house liaison with legal entities, attorneys, insurance adjusters, and medical-legal contacts, supporting workers' compensation services.

The position requires 1–2 years in workers' compensation or medical-legal environments, strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to interact professionally with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 to 2 years of prior experience working with workers' compensation, medical-legal matters, or civil referral sources (attorneys, insurers, adjusters, TPAs) within healthcare administration.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and process-driven skills.
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) in a professional manner with individuals with varying backgrounds, bi-lingual is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate billing for services rendered, invoice charges with billing team and external stakeholders on fee collection and scheduling of Workers' Comp prepayment services
• Obtain necessary stakeholder details including contact information, claim number, accepted conditions, billing address, and date of injury
• Gather all pertinent and necessary information for Physician to complete desired service being rendered

Skills

Organizational skills

Multi-tasking

Process-driven

Communication skills

Job description

The Workers' Compensation team is evolving here at DMOS to better serve our patients needs when it comes to workplace orthopaedic injuries! As we have continued to grow, specialization of tasks and duties has been highlighted as an opportunity to streamline services for injured workers, insurance adjusters, and physicians. To support our team, we are seeking a Medical-Legal Specialist. In this role you will act as an in-house company liaison with legal entities, attorneys, insurance adjusters, and medical-legal contacts. This is a full-time (40-hr) position located at our West Des Moines office with hours 8am-5pm (Monday - Friday).

Here’s What You Can Expect

• Coordinate billing for services rendered, invoice charges with billing team and external stakeholders on fee collection and scheduling of Workers' Comp prepayment services
• Obtain necessary stakeholder details including contact information, claim number, accepted conditions, billing address, and date of injury
• Gather all pertinent and necessary information for Physician to complete desired service being rendered

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of 1 to 2 years of prior experience working with workers' compensation, medical-legal matters, or civil referral sources (attorneys, insurers, adjusters, TPAs) within healthcare administration
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and process-driven skills
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) in a professional manner with individuals with varying backgrounds, bi-lingual is a plus.

Why DMOS?

• Friendly, fun, and dedicated peers.
• Outstanding 401(k) with an annual company profit sharing contribution (even if you don’t participate in the match program).
• Health, dental, and vision insurance including six paid holidays and a generous PTO accrual program for full time staff to earn up to 22 days a year.
• Orthopaedic practice with over 70 years of service to patients of the Des Moines metro.

DMOS is a privately held medical facility. Candidates who receive a conditional offer of employment at DMOS will be required to complete a criminal background check, federal background checks, education verification, reference checks, and an initial TB test.

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