Patient Account Rep Job Description
Patient Account Rep Duties & Responsibilities
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Patient Account Rep Qualifications
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Patient Account Rep Examples
Patient Account Rep Job Description
- Performs insurance and co-pay follow up
- This role will be responsible for assessing all payer specific regulations and procedures and will provide written summaries of findings and recommendations
- This position is customer focused with emphasis on accounts receivable management
- Process Home Medical Equipment referrals, provide customer service assistance and assist with other referral related duties
- The incumbent is a liaison between Community Home Health Services, physicians, clinics, hospital personnel, third party payers, and other community agencies
- This incumbent serves as a resource to external and internal customers
- Majority of time will be spent fielding calls and scheduling patients in a call center setting
- As the first point of contact (by phone) for the practice, greets patients in a professional and friendly manner, gathering information, scheduling new and existing patients with the appropriate physician, answering questions, and guiding and providing appropriate direction
- Develops, maintains and conducts a comprehensive training program for new departmental Associates in areas such as policies, procedures, workflow and computer system operation
- Responsible for the management and collection of revenue from patients’ accounts
- Minimum of two years of documented outside sales success in a competitive, sophisticated environment (complex capital or tangible products including medical/surgical, copiers, payroll solutions, information systems)
- Ability to travel domestically and within region often involving overnight stays and stays up to one week in duration
- Bachelor’s Degree required (GPA of 3.0 or higher preferred)
- Minimum of two years of documented outside sales success in a competitive, sophisticated environment, preferably tangible products
- Typing 45 WPM, data entry
- Typing, data entry, 10-key PC skills required
Patient Account Rep Job Description
- Must be able to utilize and understand many complex and varying State and Federal statutes and regulations, guidelines and systems, and perform the account follow-up function with all Commercial payors and government agencies to obtain maximum and correct reimbursement of accounts receivables
- Prepares and coordinates the publishing of educational material, training aids and A/R system documentation for distribution within and external to the immediate department
- Review for accuracy and approve financial transactions for specified procedure numbers and dollars for posting to the accounts
- Performs special projects for Patient Financial Services and Finance departments
- Assist in maintaining and updating the Associates' attendance records
- Interpret and communicate information regarding credit policies and procedures, billing practices, insurance submission and out-of-pocket patient responsibility
- Accurate batch balancing and reporting
- Submit claims to secondary insurers as required
- Provide first-rate customer service as top priority in a transparent environment as an extension of our client
- Runs & reviews 72 hour reports in CPA, two to three times each week
- Must have 2+ yrs experience in the Medicare Billing and DDE exp, Collections and all aspects of A/R cycle
- Must be proficient in Word & Excel
- Previous experience with Medical Manager, Medisoft or other medical software highly preferred
- Must have experience in a medical clinic, heavy medical billing, heavy A/R, collections (from insurance companies & patients), insurance follow-up and coding& verification
- Works daily work files to keep A/R Days, 120 Days Plus, and Bad Debt within company Goals
- Performs the outlined code practice as assigned
Patient Account Rep Job Description
- Report any problems outside the normal work flow to supervisor
- Processes emails in a timely manner and completes necessary actions
- Proficient in ten-key entry required
- Billing & Accounting.Assist leadership in overseeing the daily billing and accounting operations of the department, acting as a supervisor in his/her absence
- Leadership.Under the direction of leadership, train new and existing personnel in billing/registration functions
- Reviews Explanation of Benefits (EOBs)/ Electronic Remittance Advice (ERAs), payments, adjustments, insurance contracts and contracting system, insurance benefits, and all account comments
- Posts and tracks electronic funds transfer (EFT) information and validates EFTs for accuracy
- Follows write-off approval protocols for non-routine adjustments
- Completes daily posting log and quarterly cash handling audits and reports findings to Supervisor/Manager
- The Lead Patient Account Representative position is focused on interpersonal skills with internal and external customers, , leadership and Patient Account Representatives within Client Services
- 1-2 years healthcare billing or collections experience required with a High School Diploma
- Less experience required with a Healthcare Certificate or 2 or 4 year Degree
- Medicare DDE (Direct Data Entry) Experience
- Current immunization documentation required
- Minimum 3 years’ experience and understanding of Commercial insurance hospital collections processes required
- Minimum 3 years’ experience and understanding of Self-Pay/Customer Service hospital collections processes required
Patient Account Rep Job Description
- This role supports the mission and values of CHNw by maintaining positive and productive patient/customer interactions and relationships both internally and externally
- Contact payors, networks, patients, employers and other responsible parties to acquire timely and
- Must be able to answer all billing questions including balance on accounts, how claims paid, patient responsibility
- Participating in meetings/various committees
- Making suggestions on workflow improvements
- Notifies manager/supervisor of any customer service issues
- Contact payors, networks, patients, employers and other responsible parties to acquire timely and accurate/expected payment on assigned Accounts Receivable inventory
- Accounts should be worked daily, with an emphasis on quality and resolution
- Worklists should be stratified to ensure high dollar and/or aged accounts are the top priority, with the overall goal of resolving assigned inventory each week
- Must have working knowledge of Medi-cal including other complex payment methodologies to ensure prompt and accurate reimbursement
- One year of medical billing experience required
- Prefer knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid and third party payer guidelines
- Prefer knowledge of home medical equipment and health care
- 3-years prior physician billing experience, preferred
- Knowledge of general billing and compliance regulations, preferred
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality/discretion
Patient Account Rep Job Description
- Will works with all payors and internal resources to identify and resolve issues that hinder account payment
- Will have working knowledge and understanding of Commercial managed care contracts including other complex payment methodologies to ensure prompt and accurate reimbursement
- Analyzes billing errors to aid in claim resolution process improvement
- Primarily focused on reimbursement for Medicaid, Managed Care, A/R, MDwise and other payers
- Availity Management per assignment
- The Patient Account Representative – Hospital Billing is responsible for managing all aspects of accounts receivables for assigned billing service clients to assure maximum reimbursement is being received
- Be on the dialer 8-9 hours of the day with productivity goal of 85% of contacts and activity codes combined
- Meet collection goals
- Correctly set up promise to pay and hospital contracts
- Process payments via Express bill
- Ability to communicate and relate well with office staff, ancillary departments and the public
- Ability to follow direction, accept orders and perform repetitive tasks
- Computer literate – skilled in word processing, spreadsheets, and email
- 0 to 1 year of related experience in bookkeeping, hospital patient accounting or banking preferred
- Basic Keyboard, mouse and computer skills required with basic word processing skills
- Experience with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance coverages desirable