A large healthcare organization in New York City is seeking a Hospital Care Investigator / Medical Biller to support Patient Financial Services and revenue cycle operations. This position is responsible for backend medical billing activities, including claim edits, insurance billing, claims processing, denial management, payment posting, account follow-up, and resolution.
The ideal candidate has strong healthcare revenue cycle experience and is comfortable working with Epic and insurance billing systems. Candidates must be available for an in-person interview.
Location: New York, NY, zip code
Schedule: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Pay Range: $20.00 to $24.00 per hour
Responsibilities:
- Review patient accounts and correct billing and claim edits.
- Prepare and complete paper and electronic claims for timely submission to insurance payers.
- Perform backend insurance billing and claims processing activities.
- Investigate rejected and denied claims and perform appropriate follow-up through resolution.
- Post payments and apply account adjustments as appropriate.
- Update patient accounting and billing systems accurately and completely.
- Document patient information, billing activity, and customer interactions in applicable systems.
- Work with other departments to obtain information necessary to complete account billing.
- Process pre-authorizations, document responses, and perform required follow-up.
- Audit patient accounts for accuracy and identify discrepancies requiring correction.
- Provide billing customer service and accurately document conversations and outcomes.
- Process patient statements and enter relevant information into billing databases.
- Review past-due balances and follow up with patients and insurance carriers.
- Generate and review Patient Balance Aging and Insurance Aging reports and perform appropriate follow-up.
- Arrange payment schedules with patients when applicable.
- Escalate accounts requiring additional intervention to the appropriate supervisor.
- Attend required training sessions and maintain knowledge necessary to perform assigned revenue cycle functions.
- Perform additional Patient Financial Services and revenue cycle duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; or
- High school diploma or recognized educational equivalent and four years of full-time experience in interviewing, investigation, credit and collection follow-up, bookkeeping, or a related field; or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience. Thirty semester college credits may substitute for one year of experience.
- A high school diploma or recognized educational equivalent is required for all candidates.
- Experience with medical billing, preferably including backend healthcare billing.
- Experience with billing edits, claim denials, claims follow-up, and resolution.
- Experience with insurance billing and claims processing.
- Epic experience strongly preferred.
- Ability to process both paper and electronic claims.
- Strong computer and patient accounting system skills.
- Ability to maintain accurate and complete account documentation.
- Knowledge of payment posting, adjustments, aging reports, and collection follow-up.
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, insurance carriers, and internal departments.
- Must be available to participate in an in-person interview.
Please note that the salary range and/or hourly rate range of $20.00 to $24.00 per hour is a good faith determination of potential base compensation offered to applicants at the time of this job advertisement and may be subject to modification in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or hourly rate, various factors may be taken into account as applicable (such as location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget, and internal equity).
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This is the pay range that RightSourcing (a part of Magnit) reasonably expects to pay someone for this position, however, as a supplier your expected pay range may vary and/or include certain benefits like: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K [include any compulsory benefits such as commissions, incentive bonuses, etc. if applicable].
Pay range: *** hrly -*** hrly A member of the revenue cycle process, billers are responsible for reviewing accounts, correcting claim edits, preparing and completing claims for submission to payers, posting all types of payments, and updating patient accounting systems. They will perform related functions in support of the Patient Financial Services operations and other duties, as assigned.
The identification of essential functions below is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties that may be assigned to this position, nor does it restrict the duties which may be assigned to the position within the revenue cycle process.
This is the pay range that RightSourcing (a part of Magnit) reasonably expects to pay someone for this position, however, as a supplier your expected pay range may vary and/or include certain benefits like: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K [include any compulsory benefits such as commissions, incentive bonuses, etc. if applicable].
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Skills:
Complete both paper and electronic claims, in a timely manner.
Effectively use computer systems
Document patient information clearly and completely in systems.
Interact with other departments to complete billing on accounts.
Process rejections, denials, and other correspondence in a timely manner.
Process pre authorizations, documenting responses in the system and following up as needed
Audit patient accounts for accuracy..
Apply adjustments as needed.
Provide billing costumer service and ensure that conversations are documented accurately.
Processing statements and entering information into database; and reviewing past due bills and following up on past due accounts.
Generate Patient Balance Aging report and Insurance Aging report and following with patients and insurances accordingly.
Arrange payment schedules with patients.
Refer accounts requiring escalation to Supervisor in a timely manner.
Attend all necessary training sessions to effectively perform the day-to-day functions of the position
Perform all other duties, as assigned by the Manager or Supervisor. null