Women’s Health CT is currently seeking a Billing/Charge Entry Specialist at Danbury Midwifery Group!
Position: Billing/Charge Entry Specialist
Location: Danbury Midwifery Group
Main Address: 94 Locust Avenue, Danbury, CT 06810
Employment: Part-time, 32 hours per week
Schedule: Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Reports to: Practice Manager
Job Summary: The Billing/Charge Entry Specialist is responsible for accurately entering medical billing codes for patient services and treatments, benefit verifications, eligibility checks, prior authorizations, maintaining billing reports and assisting with account reconciliations.
Position duties and responsibilities:
- Receive and review charge entry data from all practice locations
- Accurately and efficiently enter charges and adjustments
- Ensure the billing codes accurately reflect the services provided by healthcare professionals, and that all charges are correctly entered into the billing system
- Contacting patients and insurance companies to collect payments, discuss payment plans and resolve billing issues
- Verifying correct insurance filing information on behalf of the practice and patient
- Position works in a close team environment to meet daily and monthly billing metrics
- Keeps management informed of matters regarding charge entry
- Trend and escalate billing issues to appropriate supervisory level
- Maintain and respect the confidentiality of PHI (Protected Health Information) in accordance with insurance collection guidelines, corporate policy and all HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) mandates
- Adhere to all corporate compliance mandates and guidelines
- Follow internal protocols regarding departmental communications
- Keep current on informational changes in billing procedures
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals
- Other duties as assigned by Management
Skills/qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED is required
- 1 to 2 years in a medical setting and revenue cycle, is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively on a team to coordinate assignments and meet goals.
- Attention to detail.
- Exemplary organizational skills.
- Familiarity with major group health payers.
- Basic knowledge of CPT and ICD-10 codes.
- Basic knowledge of medical terminology.
- Strong interpersonal skills including written and verbal communication.
- Customer service focus.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to learn more about all the position has to offer!
The Job responsibilities provided are intended to be a summary of the job duties. In no instance should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements included in a job description constitute as being all-inclusive. The Company and authorized management personnel reserve the right to review, change, add and/or delete duties, responsibilities, and requirements on a job description as necessary.