Healthcare Pricing – Direct Pay Specialist

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Healthcare pricing specialist coordinating CPT-based rates, provider negotiations, and direct payments. Frontier Direct Care delivers accessible primary care and proactive Care Navigation.

Responsibilities:

  • Review clinical referrals, orders, and chart notes to verify CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10 codes
  • Identify complete episode costs, separating or bundling professional, facility/ASC, anesthesia, pathology, laboratory, and DME charges
  • Contact specialist offices, imaging centers, laboratories, and surgical facilities to obtain written self-pay or prompt-pay fee schedules
  • Build Provider Option Slates detailing pricing, location, availability, and payment terms for Care Navigators
  • Cross-check services and CPT codes against employer or sponsor health plan guidelines and clinical criteria
  • Negotiate cash rates, global surgical/procedure bundles, and Single Case Agreements with clinics, surgery centers, and hospitals
  • Benchmark provider quotes against Medicare baselines, clinic fee schedules, and historical fair-market cash rates
  • Serve as the pricing and billing resource for Care Navigators on complex referrals
  • Troubleshoot point-of-service billing issues so patients are not asked to pay out of pocket or turned away
  • Execute timely direct payments for specialist care, imaging, therapies, and outpatient procedures

Requirements:

  • 2–4+ years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle, medical billing/coding, upfront patient financial counseling, surgical/procedure cost estimation, direct provider contracting, or TPA/self-funded plan pricing
  • Strong working knowledge of CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10 codes
  • Ability to read a clinical order and identify which CPT codes apply
  • Understanding of global surgical periods, common modifiers, and facility vs. professional billing splits
  • Experience requesting or building self-pay estimates, prompt-pay discounts, fee schedules, or Single Case Agreements (SCAs)
  • Comfort executing point-of-service payments via virtual credit cards, ACH, checks, or payment portals
  • Experience reconciling itemized superbills and receipts
  • Proven ability to negotiate with billing managers and revenue cycle directors and secure clear written rate confirmations quickly
  • Ability to juggle high-volume daily task queues, including STAT same-day check-ins and multi-day pricing research, in an EHR/ticketing system
  • Active coding or revenue cycle certification (CPC, CPB, CCS-P, CRCR, or equivalent) or equivalent hands-on specialty clinic/ASC financial estimation experience
  • Experience in Direct Primary Care (DPC), Direct Contracting, Reference-Based Pricing (RBP), surgical bundles, or self-funded employer health plans
  • Background in multi-specialty outpatient settings, including orthopedics, GI, cardiology, general surgery, advanced radiology, or outpatient surgery centers
  • Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus