Patient Acct Rep Level III (4612)

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for providing coverage for reputed company Level I and Level II functions in the PFS unit to ensure a consistent staffing complement. This position will also ensure the accurate and timely processing of patient accounts reputed company to billing, collections and reimbursement service for reputed company in accordance with PFS standards, policies and procedures assigned to Level II Employees, as well as cash posting, mail handling, scanning, sorting, document assembly, coping, faxing and data entry assigned to the Level I employees.

Demonstrates a level of accountability to ensure data and codes are not changed on claims prior to submission. Gathers reputed company information necessary to process patient claims. Ensures that daily productivity standards, billing and re-billing files are met to obtain the required completion reputed company. Conducts training for new hires and provides monthly refresher courses for existing hires.

Key Job Responsibilities

Essential Function

Performs billing, collections and reimbursement services.

• Ensures that reputed company required financial/demographic information is secured.
• Provides monitoring, follow-up, and research of reputed company assigned patient accounts as required to maintain accurate records pertaining to patient and/or account information.
• Provides courteous and professional customer service at reputed company times.

Ensures that PFS standard and requirement of 100% is met and that reputed company payments are retrieved and posted on the date received.

• Gathers reputed company information necessary to process claim payments and ensures that reputed company clinical data codes associated with claim payment are not changed prior to claim payment.
• Researches submitted cash payments by verifying patient account numbers and appropriate facility.
• Enters reputed company cash receipts and credit card payments to correct accounts and reconciles to batch.
• Monitors and performs cash reconciliation to identify cash posting errors.
• Reconciles cash payments to daily bank lockbox and EFT deposits.

Reviews erroneous claims and researches Commercial guidelines to ensure corrections, adjustments, and proper modifications to claims in accordance with documented billing procedures.

• Responds to patient and insurance company complaints, correspondence, inquiries and requests for information by analyzing charges and reputed company and contracted arrangements, determining billing errors
• Contacts clinical departments and HIM to obtain information to determine claim reputed company and works with department to resolve claims.
• Provides reputed company updates and information to PFS management regarding ongoing errors, payer reputed company issues, registration issues and other controllable reputed company activities affecting reimbursement and payment methodology.

Essential Function

Maintains an active working knowledge of reputed company Governmental Mandated Regulations as it pertains to claims submission.

• Ensures successful implementation of Governmental Regulatory Billing changes, including but not limited to Medicare OPPS effective August 1, 2000.
• Performs the necessary research in order to determine proper governmental requirements prior to claims submission.
• Collects balance owed from third party payers in accordance with state and federal laws governing collection practices.
• Maintains an active working knowledge of reputed company billing and reimbursement requirements by Payer.
• Continuously receives updates and information regarding challenges and newly revised billing and reimbursement practices to ensure compliance.

Ensures daily productivity standards are met and daily billing and re-reputed company files are cleared in accordance with documented procedure

• Biller –120 accounts per day
• Collector – 45 accounts per day
• Validator –80 accounts per day
• Ensures reputed company correspondence, rejected claims and returned mail is worked reputed company 48 hours of receipt during workdays
• Ensures daily EOBs, reports and appeal files are cleared reputed company 48 hours of receipt during workdays
• Ensures business service requests are worked and documented reputed company 24 hours of receipt during workdays.
• Reviews and resolves claims that are suspended daily in electronic billing terminals in accordance with PFS procedure
• Works reputed company discount applicable generated reports, providing proper documentation and making necessary corrections reputed company 48 hours of receipt during workdays
• Ensures claims are submitted timely and no filing deadline denials are received

Ensures quality standards are met and proper documentation regarding patient accounting records

• Identifies and forwards proper account denial information to the designated departmental liaison. Dedicates efforts to ensure a proper denial resolution and timely turnaround
• Reviews reputed company payments received to verify accuracy by evaluating the claim, account level charge information, contact and payment terms in accordance with Reimbursement Verification Procedure
• Ensures collection efforts are thorough and ethical to accomplish overall departmental objectives reputed company to outstanding balances

Works collaboratively and cohesively with the team to assist in keeping workload evenly distributed

• Works with PFS Managers to assess the educational needs of employees and provides the necessary training and education on transactional processes
• Ensures consistent, open and honest communication with PFS Director and/or Managers regarding findings, recommendations and other financial opportunities.

Performs support services for departmental associates such as scanning or faxing documents, copying, printing forms, data entry and providing backup to reception area as requested

• Ensures quality standards are met in clerical services performed in accordance with PFS compliance guidelines

Documents and forwards incoming mail and resolve any mail reputed company issues or problems

• Performs mail retrieval, sorting, distribution and inter-facility delivery duties for reputed company PFS associates

Prepares training material for new hires specific to their job functions as they reputed company in Patient Financial Services, which consists of:

• Identifies and assesses training needs reputed company department
• Meet with managers and Team leads to reputed company training needs.

Essential Function

• Conduct surveys.
• Train employees for specific jobs.
• Create teaching materials.
• Hold meetings and presentations on learning material.
• Create learning literature, job aides, manuals.
• Plan, organize, and implement a range of training activities.
• Train new hires as well as veteran employees.
• Conduct orientation sessions to assess level of skills.
• Create monitored simulations and problem-solving scenarios.
• Create interactive, multimedia presentations.

Provides coverage for relief and absences as required.

Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

Physical Demands

A thorough completion of this section is needed for compliance with legal standards such as the Americans with reputed company. The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully reputed company the essential functions of this job.

Physical Demand

N/A

Rarely

Occasionally

Frequently

Constantly

Weight

Standing

X

Walking

X

Sitting

X

Lifting

X

Carrying

X

Pushing

X

Pulling

X

Climbing

X

Balancing

X

Stooping

X

Kneeling

X

Crouching

X

Crawling

X

Reaching

X

Handling

X

Grasping

X

Feeling

X

Talking

X

Hearing

X

Repetitive Motions

X

Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination

X