Astranahealth
Billing Clerk (Part Time)
Job description
- Billing: Has to be done on a daily basis. • Primary insurance billing. • Secondary Insurance Billing. • Workers Comp. Insurance Billing. • Self Pay Billing. • Maintain cross over for CMS. 2. Coding: • Insurance coding. • ICD-9. • CPT/ASC coding. 3. Patient accounts: • Preparing patient’s account for billing. • Follow up on patient’s account to obtain additional information as/if needed. 4. Payments: • Posting payments on a daily basis. 5. Follow up: • Initially follows up on all EOB’s. • Contacts and makes correspondence with patients for co-payments or deductibles. • Issuing statements on past due accounts monthly and follows up with phone calls. 6. Reports: • Running daily transaction reports and reconciling with daily deposits. • Closing the monthlys. • Running month end reports. 7. Daily deposits: • Photocopying all checks and EOB’s and maintaining records. • Preparing daily deposits. • Updating monthly transaction sheets on a daily basis. 8. Inquiries: • Assist patients when they come in or make telephone inquiries regarding their account status. 9. Filing: • Filing EOB’s and billing on a regular basis. 10. Other tasks: • Follows up all correspondence regarding billing/payment from patient and payer. • Resubmitting the claims with proper explanation and required documents and corrections in a timely manner. QUALIFICATIONS: • High school graduate. • A minimum of two years insurance biller experience at a medical office, an inpatient or outpatient facility. • Knowledge of ICD-9 coding and CPT codes. • Knowledge of medical terminology. • Working knowledge of computers and data processing. • Demonstrate good public relations and understands priority of tasks. • Must be able to communicate with patients or payers in a courteous manner and be neat and clean in dress and appearance.
