Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
Revenue Cycle Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
- Payment Postings and Reconciliations
- Research and Resolution
- Meets or Exceeds Standards for Productivity
- Responsible for identifying, analyzing and managing Process Improvement projects in the Revenue Cycle area
- The Revenue Cycle Coordinator will identify potential revenue and/or compliance issues, make recommendations to resolve and implement revenue cycle improvement initiatives and identify opportunities to improve financial outcomes
- The coordinator will also be responsible for attending key project meetings, preparing meeting minutes and action items, and conducting follow-up activities on action items
- This position will also conduct random audits to involve reviewing claims, remittance advices, and partnering with key individuals across the Revenue Cycle to produce items for projects & initiatives
- Performs other duties as required and assigned by the Billing Director
- Work the monthly and cumulative missing encounter report by validating open encounters are truly missing and working with the clinicians to ensure that they complete documentation and close encounter
- Review the closed encounters that appear on the missing encounter report to validate a charge filed in Transaction Inquiry
- Four year undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, healthcare administration, business, information technology, or engineering
- 4+ years' experience in a healthcare business setting
- Detail oriented and produce high-quality work
- Able to self-direct and remain organized
- Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access is required
- Protect confidentiality and rights of patients and health system in a diplomatic and discreet manner
Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
- Closed visits are reviewed for possible billable services, if found then charge is manually entered through Epic – Charge Entry, if no code found, then review of scheduled appointment for validation and/or cancellation
- Supports manager/supervisor in identification of potential lost revenue related to trends in charge entry, billing, coding or contracting practices that are related to charge capture
- Under general supervision reviews the coding of diagnoses and procedure codes for inpatient acute care services to ensure correct assignment of inpatient DRGs
- Utilize standard coding guidelines and principles and coding clinics to verify that the appropriate ICD-10 codes were assigned for accurate MS-DRG or APR-DRG assignment
- Facilities all aspects of credentialing including
- Assist in compliance with the accrediting and regulatory agencies (i.e., JCAHO) in regards to credentialing while developing and maintaining a working knowledge of the statutes and laws
- Responsible for ensuring the timeliness of credentialing/re-credentialing verification processes and tracks all application to assure turnaround time is appropriate
- Duties include the gathering, verification and evaluation of confidential healthcare provider credentials, follow-up in obtaining documentation relevant to the credentialing
- Ensures that accurate up-to-date data for each applicant is entered into the database
- Assists in managing the flow of information between the various teams and departments needed to ensure accuracy
- Degree in Finance or health related field
- Minimum 5 years experience with the development and implementation of healthcare revenue cycle management training and auditing materials and implementation programs
- 3 – 5 years in outpatient billing environment preferred
- 2 – 5 years experience working with Epic Resolute module
- Proficiency in excel spreadsheets using pivot tables, formulas and graphics
- Excellent verbal/written communication and listening skills are essential for this position
Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
- Maintains records and files as appropriate
- Interacts with employees, medical center administrative staff, physicians and office staff
- Under direct supervision reviews the coding diagnoses and CPT codes for multi-specialty coding or SDS coding are assigned correctly and if all diagnoses and procedures are identified
- Under general supervision reviews the coding diagnoses and E/M levels verifying the proper codes were assigned
- May create and present education and interact with client and providers
- Develop and deliver educational training materials to revenue center employees
- Focus on standardization across revenue centers
- Works closely with the policy & procedure standardization team to support education efforts for revenue cycle employees through the development of presentations and communications
- Perform quality assurance checks to ensure procedures are adhered to
- Maintains training strategy and plan
- Interpersonal skills necessary to represent organization in a professional and positive manner
- Ability to effectively organize and prioritize tasks in order to complete assignments and meet deadlines
- Clinical liaison/expert to PFS financial clearance and third party payers
- Ability to clearly communicate clinical treatments and rationale for treatment to payer staff
- Use internal and external resources to obtain and provide clinical information to payers
- Establish sound working relationship with payer pre-service review/precertification staff to obtain prior authorizations for surgical procedures/medical admissions
Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
- Manages open invoices
- Prepares monthly A/R reports, reviews open invoices for resolution, meets with providers to show account status
- Manages patients with past due balances
- Ensures that billing is done correctly
- Assists with strategic planning to decrease denials and increase collections
- Works with Non-Par Providers to manage payment negotiation agreements for managed care plans
- Produces and manages billing reports related to charges, payments, denials, Interprets data, and develops improvements
- Audits Post-Op visits routinely to ensure that visits are billed within the global period and visa versa
- Assists in educating staff as required on billing issues and changes
- Ability to perform all essential responsibilities of the Customer Care Associate position and perform them as directed
- Collaborate with PFS leadership to formulate action plans for payer precertification denial management
- Interact with peers in other finance related departments to communicate potential and actual prior authorization denials (Utilization Management Specialists/Supervisors/Directors
- Ability to complete clinical aspects of specific payer forms and facilitate medical director’s completion of forms
- Ability to call payers to initiate precertification and provide clinical information for Hopkins Access Line (HAL) patients
- Licensed in the State of Maryland as a Registered Nurse (RN)
- Requires three to five years clinical experience as staff nurse with broad range of clinical experience
Revenue Cycle Specialist Job Description
- Stays current with relevant guidelines and policies for medical devices (e.g., HIPAA, Medical Device Reporting)
- Ensures compliance with all Company quality procedures and guidelines including but not limited to Quality Policy and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
- Meets standards for production and accuracy within 3 months in shift date
- Performs all job duties according to Contact Center policies and procedures
- Routinely reviews regulatory and third party payer changes impacting revenue cycle operations
- Performs new hire and remedial training on processes and policy and procedures
- Performs quality assurance audits within the revenue cycle departments
- Coordinates with operational areas ensuring policies and procedures are maintained to support revenue cycle areas
- Coordinates the revenue cycle operational needs for new programs and sites to ensure effective capture of patient registration information and billing requirements
- Develops and maintains education materials related to revenue cycle departments in coordination with Information Technology Epic team analysts
- Analyze and trend payer authorization and denial practices
- Experience in utilization management or in payer environment preferred
- A minimum of two (2) years billing experience
- Must be able to operate a computer and demonstrate Windows navigation skills
- One (1) year collections and/or call center experience (Preferred)
- 4-7 years experience in a clinical environment (acute or ambulatory), required