Billing Administrative Assistant
Women's Health Connecticut is seeking to hire a Full-time, Billing Administrative Assistant at our fast-paced Ob/Gyn practice in Avon, CT!
Position: Billing Administrative Assistant
Location: Women's Comprehensive Health Care
Address: 20 West Avon Road, Suite 201 Avon, CT 06001
Employment: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:00a- 5:00p
Reports to: Practice Manager
Position Summary: The Billing Administrative Assistant is responsible for benefit verifications, eligibility checks, prior authorizations, maintaining billing reports and assisting with account reconciliations.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for entering and reconciling charges and payments from medical offices in a timely and accurate manner
- Position works in a close team environment to meet daily and monthly billing metrics.
- Other responsibilities include verifying correct insurance filing information on behalf of the client and patient.
- 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.
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
- Other duties as assigned by Management.
Skills
- High School diploma or GED is required
- 1 - 2 years in a medical billing and revenue cycle is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively on a team to coordinate assignments and meet goals.
- Attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Windows PC applications, which includes the ability to navigate multiple programs and learn new and complex computer system applications.
- Displays exemplary organizational skills.
- Familiarity with major group health payers.
- Basic knowledge of CPT and ICD-10 codes.
- Basic knowledge of medical terminology.
- 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.