Senior DME Operations & Revenue Integrity Specialist
Valgorithm
Fort Lauderdale, FL
About Ease DME
Ease DME is a compliance-forward Durable Medical Equipment provider specializing in urology supplies. We are building a highly controlled, audit-ready Medicare DME operation and are seeking our first senior operations hire.
This role protects compliance, cash flow, and accreditation integrity.
Position Summary
The Senior DME Operations & Revenue Integrity Specialist owns front-end documentation compliance, insurance verification, and revenue readiness for Medicare and commercial claims. This individual ensures what ships is billable and what bills is defensible.
This is not a clerical intake role.
This is a high-accountability Medicare DME position.
Core Responsibilities
Documentation & Compliance
- Review physician orders and supporting medical records
- Validate medical necessity for straight, coude, and closed system catheters
- Ensure frequency limits and diagnosis alignment meet Medicare standards
- Maintain audit-ready patient files in NikoHealth
- Escalate documentation risks before shipment
Insurance & Revenue Readiness
- Verify Medicare, MA, and commercial eligibility
- Confirm frequency limitations and coverage requirements
- Ensure claims are documentation-complete prior to submission
Denial Prevention & Revenue Oversight
- Analyze denial root causes
- Improve clean-claim rate
- Support appeals and recoupments
- Monitor AR trends and timely filing limits
Process Development
- Strengthen Order workflows
- Build documentation checklists
- Contribute to scalable team structure as volume grows
30-60-90 Day Plan
First 30 Days – Foundation & Familiarization
Goal: Build a strong understanding of Ease DME’s billing systems, payer requirements, and compliance standards.
Milestones:
- Complete onboarding and training on NikoHealth, payer portals, and internal workflows.
- Review 20+ recent claims and denials to identify common issues.
- Learn Medicare and commercial payer rules for urology supplies (catheters, frequency limits, modifiers).
- Shadow senior billing staff to understand claim submission and follow-up cadence.
- Achieve 90% accuracy on supervised claim submissions.
Days 31–60 – Ownership & Efficiency
Goal: Take ownership of assigned billing queues and begin improving clean-claim rates.
Milestones:
- Independently manage daily claim submissions and follow-ups.
- Reduce preventable denials by 15–20% through proactive documentation checks.
- Demonstrate consistent use of NikoHealth notes and task tracking.
- Identify recurring documentation or intake issues and communicate with the intake team.
- Maintain 93% clean-claim submission rate.
Days 61–90 – Optimization & Leadership
Goal: Drive measurable improvements in revenue cycle performance and compliance.
Milestones:
- Fully own billing and AR management for assigned payers.
- Maintain 95% clean-claim submission rate and reduce aging >60 days by measurable percentage.
- Lead at least one process improvement initiative (e.g., denial prevention workflow).
- Support audit readiness by ensuring documentation completeness.
- Mentor intake staff on documentation best practices impacting billing.
Why This Role Matters
This hire directly protects:
- Medicare billing privileges
- ACHC accreditation
- Revenue integrity
- Audit exposure
We are seeking someone who thinks:
“Would this survive a Medicare audit?”
Compensation
Competitive base salary with performance bonuses tied to:
- Clean-claim rate
- Preventable denial reduction
- Documentation audit score
Requirements
- 3+ years Medicare Part B DME billing experience
- Urology supply (catheter) billing or documentation experience
- Hands-on denial correction and appeals experience
- Experience using NikoHealth or similar DME system
- Strong written and verbal English communication
- Ability to think critically under compliance pressure
Preferred:
- Diabetes / CGM billing experience
- ACHC or audit exposure
- Prior workflow or team-building experience