The Revenue Cycle Accounts Receivable Specialist is responsible for managing and resolving outstanding account balances. This includes researching and following up on claim statuses, addressing denied claims, and filing appeals when necessary. The specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring timely payment and reducing aged receivables by effectively handling claim denials and discrepancies.

Responsibilities

• Gather accurate reimbursement on client accounts and identify denial trends to improve client performance.
• Follow up on outstanding medical A/R with no response from the insurance carriers.
• Update client account in system with any action taken or additional information attained when verifying benefits.
• Contact insurance companies by phone, email, fax, and written correspondence to resolve issues that prevent claims from being processed correctly.
• Handle EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions, including reconciling carrier submissions, edits and rejection reports.
• Provide customer service support for patients, client administrative staff and insurance companies
• Review and apply current standards on federal and state regulations and statues that influence collections of receivables and meet productivity standards.

Qualifications
Required

• High school diploma or GED.
• At least 1 year of medical billing experience.
• At least 1 year of I Microsoft Excel work experience including creating spreadsheets, editing and formatting, and using pivot tables

Preferred

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of medical billing specifically in behavioral, homecare, and long-term care insurance.
• Collections experience in a healthcare setting.
• Working knowledge of medical billing systems (i.e. Medic, IDX, Avatar, Tier, Medical Manager, etc.)

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