What are the responsibilities and job description for the Billing Specialist position at Suntree Internal Medicine Inc?
Position
Billing Specialist
FLSA Status
Hourly Non-Exempt
Reports to
Billing Manager
Shift
8am to 4:30pm
Reporters
0
Lunch
30 minutes
Wage: $15.00/hr-$16.00/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.
Salary : $15 - $16
