Billing Team Lead Job Description
Billing Team Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Billing Team Lead Job Description
- Responsibility for managing the monthly AR&Billing closing activities, reviewing
- Responsibility for reconciliation of subsidiary ledger to General Ledger and cash disbursements to general ledger
- Control and services of processes in the field of Accounts Receivable and Billing financial operations
- Optimization of processes
- Direct supervision of the work of subordinate employees
- Providing technical and accounting trainings for the team members
- Professional communication in foreign languages (English)
- Relay updates and process changes to team members and leadership when identified
- Select, develop/determine and maintain teaching aids
- Communicates daily information needed for billing to the Medicare Service Center via action notes and e-mail
- Minimum 3 years of management experience with more than 5 people
- Master’s degree in management/finance or Professional certification (CPA, CMA, CIA, etc)
- Experience in Shared Service Center for multi-national corporation
- Working knowledge of SAP in more than 3 years in past 5 years
- Self-motivated, proactive and team oriented person who can focus on achieving common goals
- Client service and quality oriented mindset
Billing Team Lead Job Description
- Daily works electronic insurance rejects in order to retransmit with corrected insurance information
- Daily works rebills submitted to the billing department through the electronic billing system
- Daily/weekly verifies that all electronic acknowledgements were received by the insurance carriers
- Daily submits required paper billing to insurance carriers
- Attach I-bills, ER records, implant invoices to paper billing when required
- Maintain daily follow up with the facility late charge reports
- Late charges to be reviewed based on specific insurance payor requirements
- Submit adjustment requests to Medicaid through online automated system
- Work the unbilled alert and comp census reports daily
- Work the Medicare 72 hour and Medicaid 24 hour reports to identify Compliance overlapping accounts
- Work all related Medicare APC edits that appear on the bill alert reports and communicate with facility departments in order to resolve
- Work the lab compliance related edits and communicates issues with facility lab directors
- Enter notes in the collection system of action taken
- Attend all required billing education classes
- EPIC - Resolute Hospital Billing Administration or Claims certification required
- Experienced in leading complex installs over multiple phases
Billing Team Lead Job Description
- Works with Advisory Billing management and the internal development group to integrate new processes into the existing workflows
- Oversee and coordinate training of new associates within the department
- Manages team projects and process implementation dictates prioritization
- Regularly launch products and services based on your work and be a creative and integral part of making these a success
- Embrace and Execute on DJ’s API first strategy
- May be required to participate in conference calls, review accounts receivable reports, and/or create reports to compile issues in order to expedite resolution of accounts
- Reviews quality assurance reports with appropriate Leadership and staff
- Responsible for examining and interpreting contracts to ensure patient accounts are properly reimbursed
- Specifically takes responsibility for patient satisfaction and employee engagement scores, meeting goals set by Florida Hospital and PA/PFS department
- Presents written and verbal directions to employees to ensure well-informed status in performance of their job requirements as indicated, and completes employee performance evaluations while adhering to Florida Hospital and regulatory evaluation guidelines
- 1+ years Medical insurance followup experience
- 6+ months of current work experience with multiple carriers - Medicare, Medicaid, Bluecross, Commercial carries, etc
- 1-2 years of delegating work and training associates
- Exemplary teamwork and leadership skills with the ability to train and mentor others within the department
- Minimum two years of experience in Finance background or related field
- Provides continuing education of all team members on process and A/R requirements
Billing Team Lead Job Description
- Provide side by side coaching of staff along with participate in the interviewing processes
- Present productivity metrics to the supervisory staff and upper level management on a weekly basis
- Follow-up on outstanding Certificates of Medical Necessity (CMN),Letters of Medical Necessity (LMN), prescriptions, renewals, expiring authorizations and other missing medical documentation to ensure that a patient’s account does not go into a suspended status
- Enter prescription information into a database once received by a physician and escalate any aged prescriptions to the manager for resolution
- Update insurance providers when a change to a patient account has occurred and work with the insurance company to obtain new authorizations for service
- Communicate with patients, physicians and insurance companies to update them on status, orders and missing documentation
- Assist Manager with all provider enrollments are timely and accurate for all carriers
- Assist Manager with edits and provides monthly edit statistics
- Ensure the member experience is positive by providing appropriate and expedient resolution to escalated or any identified issues
- Report and review production activity
- Oversee front line Supervisors to ensure enrollment deadlines are met, while meeting production and quality standards
- Engage IT with system issues and partner with various BA’s for resolution
- Escalate problematic/fraudulent tow providers to Network Management
- Direct/consult Payment Service’s team on Secondary Tow provider payment issues
- Submit Intercompany Expense Allocation to Cost Mgmt
- Analyze data trends to determine priorities and manage work condition
Billing Team Lead Job Description
- Responsible for the continuous improvement and professional development of the team
- Collaborate with the wider Finance team globally and other teams in the Fidessa community, ensuring open and effective communication
- Ensure customer queries are answered quickly and effectively, including responsibility for escalations and keeping disputes to a minimum
- Coordinate connectivity workflow to appropriate teams, resulting in the timely billing of the Americas revenue stream
- Accountable for achieving Finance Operations goals and key performance indicators
- Monitor key operational metrics that measure/assess the Billing and COM teams' performance and drive continuous improvement to reduce inefficiencies in processes
- Oversee customer contracts to ensure all are accurately entered and maintained within SAP, including additions, deletions, amendments and decommissions, so invoicing is accurate and up to date
- Own and maintain a quarterly review process of tax rates, including coordinating updates to ensure we remain compliant
- Work with the Business Systems group to define, test and approve system improvements related to the Finance Operations processes
- Review contracts and work with sales teams to ensure all information required for billing is complete and accurate
- Ability to manage through ambiguity, prioritizes work condition to meet business needs
- Proven ability to lead/co-lead permanent and temporary staff as assigned
- Ability to independently handle escalated issues
- Ability to perform thorough research and analysis, documenting results, and communicating to various audiences
- Demonstrated attention to detail, achieving a high degree of accuracy
- Strong time management skills in order to effectively multi-task while meeting established deadlines