Billing Specialist

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Remote Billing Specialist II submitting compliant medical claims and resolving billing rejections. Supporting Savista’s healthcare clients with revenue-cycle improvement services.

Responsibilities:

  • Utilize hospital/physician systems to verify patient, billing and claim information for accuracy
  • Perform compliant primary/secondary, tertiary and rebill billing functions through electronic, paper and portal submission to payers
  • Edit claims to satisfy billing compliance guidelines for electronic and hardcopy submission
  • Respond to emails and telephone messages
  • Communicate payer, system and escalated account issues to management
  • Attend meetings, training seminars and in-services
  • Adhere to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state and local requirements, and JCAHO standards
  • Update patient demographics and insurance information
  • Monitor claims for missing information, authorization and control numbers
  • Follow prioritization, timely filing deadlines and notation protocols
  • Secure medical documentation requested by third-party insurance carriers
  • Maintain confidentiality of patient information
  • Use provider billing manuals to obtain billing guidelines and requirements
  • Verify and escalate import/export files
  • Handle interim bills, overlap review and redistribution of money for correct claim creation
  • Research and resolve billing rejections

Requirements:

  • 2+ years of medical collections/billing experience
  • Intermediate knowledge of ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS and NCCI
  • Intermediate knowledge of third-party billing guidelines
  • Intermediate knowledge of billing claim forms (UB04/1500)
  • Intermediate knowledge of payor contracts
  • Working Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Intermediate working knowledge of health information systems (i.e., EMR, Claim Scrubbers, Patient Accounting Systems, etc.)
  • Preferred: Working knowledge of one or more of EPIC, Cerner, STAR, Meditech, CPSI, Invision, PBAR, All Scripts, or Paragon
  • Preferred: Working knowledge of DDE Medicare claim system
  • Preferred: Knowledge of government rules and regulations