Billing Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Position

Billing Specialist

FLSA Status

Hourly Non-Exempt

Reports to

Billing Manager

Shift

8am to 4:30pm

Reporters

0

Lunch

30 minutes

Wage: $16.00/hr-$17.00/hr

Education: 

High School Diploma or GED required

Medical Billing/Insurance Aging Experience required

Medical Terminology Knowledge preferred

Strong understanding of medical billing and collection processes required required

Outstanding communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills required

Level 2 Background screening REQUIRED

Responsibilities:

• Review and work all assigned accounts on Aging Report, including rebilling, sending documentation, and writing appeals.

• Work rejected claims in the clearinghouse, ensuring all information is accurate and complete.

• Transmit information or documents to customers and employees, using a computer, mail, or facsimile machine.

• Hear and resolve complaints from customers, employees, or the public.

• Perform various administrative or clerical functions such as maintaining records and inventory.

• Assisting reception with any eligibility issues

• Notifying patients of any insurance issues and properly documenting as such

• Operate telephone to answer, screen, or forward calls, providing information, taking messages

• Analyze data to determine answers to questions from customers or members of the public

• Other duties as assigned by the billing management team.

Abilities:

• High-level of multi-tasking

• Time management skills

• Team player

• Creativity and ingenuity

• Personable

• Proficient with google sheets and docs 

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting of patients, manual and finger dexterity, and hand-eye coordination.

• Requires standing, walking, and sitting for extensive periods of time

• Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to fifty (50) pounds

• Requires corrected vision, hearing, and speech within normal ranges

• Requires working under stressful conditions and sometimes irregular hours

• Potential contact with bloodborne pathogens, bodily secretions, etc.

About Suntree Internal Medicine:

We are a large private internal medicine practice located in Melbourne, Florida. We are an equal opportunity employer and we believe that education and training are a key part of success. Our values are to bring Sincerity, Inspiration, and Mastery into the workplace. We offer benefits, paid time off, 401 K with company matching up to 5% and holidays after the 90-day probation period review.