Medical Billing Specialist

Medical Billing Specialist

Remote Remote - Countrywide (RMT)

Category Business Office Job ID 300096233

Status Full-Time/Regular

Salary Range $15.80 - $22.00 per Hour Disclaimer Salary is determined based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, an individual''s qualifications and experience.

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Position Overview:

Reporting to the Billing Manager, Billing Specialists are responsible for the daily entry of charges for their assigned surgical centers. This will include but is not limited to the following: perform complete chart reviews, verify patient demographics, assign modifiers, diagnosis codes, and revenue codes in accordance with coding and reimbursement guidelines resulting in claim reimbursement.

Responsibilities:

• Pull any preoperative notes from the designated transcription company.
• Extract information from medical records, operative notes, invoices, progress notes and discharge paperwork to ensure completeness and accuracy of charge entry.
• Capture implants, high-cost supplies, high-cost drugs, post op pain blocks and observations times prior to charge submission
• Review accuracy of invoice details, including customer billing instructions, pricing, discounts, state sales tax, etc.
• Execute the recurring billing workflow and generate and transmit claims daily.
• Ensure timely follow-up and resolution of internal and external inquiries of billing issues (i.e., operative notes, POPM form, invoices, or implant pricing etc).
• Reconcile revenue and billing during the period-end close process.
• Complete accurate charge entry for all assigned cases and upload to designated electronic claims clearinghouse daily.
• Resolve claim rejections daily to ensure clean claims are transmitted and received by the appropriate payer.
• Maintain current knowledge of health care billing laws, rules and regulations and developments.

Required Skills:

Requirements:

• 2+ years of ASC revenue cycle or orthopedic charge entry or collections experience.
• Ability to read and interpret insurance explanations of benefits and managed care contracts.
• Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with internal and external clients.
• Must be able to multi-task and handle competing priorities while meeting or exceeding deadlines
• Knowledge or experience working with a variety of health care insurance payers is preferred
• Intermediate computer proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and Outlook
• Advantx, Vision, HST, Waystar experience preferred.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.

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