Billing Specialist

Billing Specialist

Position - Billing Specialist - FLSA Status - Hourly Non-Exempt

Reports to - Billing Manager - Shift - 8am to 4:30pm

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
• 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.