Payment Posting Specialist

Payment Posting Specialist (ERA/EOB) — Remote Medical Billing Post insurance and patient payments line by line, reconcile every deposit, and catch the underpayments and denials that a lump-sum post would hide. Payment posting is where a practice finds out what it was actually paid. Posted carefully, line by line against the fee schedule, it surfaces underpayments, denials hidden in zero-pay lines and contractual adjustments that don't match the contract. Posted carelessly, it buries them. As a payment posting specialist you make sure the ledger tells the truth. What you will do Post ERA (835) files and manual EOBs, including adjustments, patient responsibility and transfers Post patient payments, refunds and recoupments correctly Reconcile posted payments to bank deposits and clearinghouse reports every day Compare allowed amounts to the contracted fee schedule and flag underpayments Route denials and zero-pay lines to the denial team with the reason codes intact Move secondary balances to the next payer or to patient responsibility Investigate unapplied payments and credit balances What you need One or more years of medical payment posting Ability to read ERAs and paper EOBs and interpret CARC/RARC and group codes (CO, PR, OA) Experience reconciling deposits and resolving variances Accuracy and patience with detailed, repetitive work Helpful, not required Experience posting in athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, AdvancedMD, Tebra / Kareo or Open Dental, and handling Medicare crossover and secondary payments. #J-18808-Ljbffr