Payment Poster - Dallas, TX

Experience Required:

• Medical Payment posting, accounts receivable and collection experience.
• Working knowledge of medical insurance and EOB understanding.
• At least 2 years of Payment Posting experience in a medical office.

• Posts payments received to corresponding charges on patient accounts.
• Downloads remittance reports and EOB statements corresponding to payments.
• Imports daily files and extracts remittances.
• Posts all zero pay remittance with corresponding denial/reason code timely and accurately to patient accounts.
• Ensures insurance carrier payments received are paid in accordance with contract reimbursement terms.
• Applies appropriate contractual transaction relative to the contract and/or penalty application.
• Responsible for contacting system vendor and opening a case when a system issue occurs.
• Responsible for updating the Director of Revenue Cycle and the Supervisor on posted status.
• Ensures that the daily deposit worksheet is accurate and matches what was posted.
• Ensures that the daily downloads are in balance for each daily retro posting.
• Downloads all EOBs and denials daily.
• Ensures fax payments are processed and posted into patient accounts accurately.
• Processes collection agency reports and posts collected funds accurately to patient accounts.
• Ensures communication with collection agency is completed timely to reflect payments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of the Fair Debt Collection Act and state and federal laws applying to collection activities.
• Has knowledge of EMR, online payments and processing.
• Excellent verbal & written communication, interpersonal, analytical skills, and accuracy. 
• Ability to deal professionally, courteously, and efficiently with the public.
• Knowledge of all confidentiality requirements regarding patients and strict maintenance of proper confidentiality on all such information.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, CPT and ICD-10 coding, office ethics
• Must possess knowledge and understanding of managed care and insurance practices.