Patient Accounts Representative

Patient Account Representative The Patient Account Representative will be responsible for reviewing and auditing billing charges, billing, collection, straightforward coding, and all account receivable activities for the physician clinics within Saint Luke's Health System. Activities include, but are not limited to, entering charge demographics, troubleshooting charge related issues raised by clinic staff, responding to inbound and outbound billing calls from patients, payment posting, resolving payment credits, identifying and correcting medical claim errors that may prevent payment and identifying, correcting, and resubmitting medical claims denied by insurance companies. Resolving claim edits, working denials and appeals. Evaluation and coding of ICD, CPT, HCPCS. All coding initiatives, NCCI edits, incidentals/inclusive, and bundling rules, etc. Demonstrate competency for invalid diagnosis, modifiers, coding related issues. Preferred: Billing or Coding Certifications. Anesthesia billing experience is a must! Claim Edits: Responsible for researching patient billing claims to identify and correct coding/claim errors Responsible for researching patient insurance coverage to identify and resubmit claims to fix coverage denials. Research and outline documentation needed for respective payor organizations so that claims are processed correctly Familiarity with NCCI edits, incidentals/inclusive, and bundling rules, etc. Identify problem trends Communicate with payors for resolution to complications with claims Responsible for 277 EDI transactions/rejections Working with EDI transactions Payment posting corrections/adjustments and ability to distribute payments Correct/enter charges Work with multiple teams/departments to resolve issues Payment plan or financial assistance coordination Insurance Denials and Follow-Up: Responsible for researching, identifying errors, and correcting claims denied by insurance companies. Must be able to assess claim to determine when appropriate to make charge adjustments, void a charge, or escalate to the team lead and/or another medical billing team. Responsible for writing appeal letters to insurance companies Responsible for following up with insurance companies for no response claims. Responsible for working with patient calls escalated from the Customer Service team regarding involving billing code issues. Research refund request from payor organizations Responsible for preliminary audit of billing code errors before claim submitted to the Coding team. Responsible for routing complex claim denial to team lead and/or the appropriate medical billing team. Responsible for identifying issues which can be resolved by programming software to prevent denials. Responsible for becoming a subject matter expert on the payor policies. Responsible for communicating and resolving problems with the provider representatives Responsible for simple level coding, including diagnosis review, modifier applications, some CPT code changes following process documents and payor policies