Regional Billing Coordinator
Regional Billing Coordinator
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Job Description
Job Functions Duties Responsibilities and Position Qualifications:
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LOCATION: REMOTE
DAYS: M-Fri
FULL TIME: Benefits Eligible
Job Summary:
Sonic Healthcare is currently seeking an experienced Regional Billing Coordinator. The qualified applicant can be located at any practice location. The Regional Billing Coordinator will be responsible coordinating billing related activities for multiple practices with the external billing vendor
Essential Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for reviewing daily charge files for multiple practices for accuracy and completeness
- Responsible for ensuring complete and accurate information by either working with the practice or external vendor for multiple practices
- Releases charges from billing hold for charge file for multiple assigned practices
- Communicates changes related to physicians clients managed care agreements locum tenens schedules client bill arrangements and changes in test offerings
- Responds to inquiries and requests from the external billing vendor in a timely and accurate manner
- Manages the client bill AR aging and collections to meet within defined targets
- Provides specific reporting metrics on a daily weekly monthly quarterly basis
- Responsible for performing assigned SOX controls for multiple practices
- Communicates all information received from payers to the centralized billing office
- Communicates with practice clients to provide customer/client service
- Completes annual training programs within the required timeframe and regularly attends staff meetings
- Participate in any billing-related meetings held for practices including but not limited to monthly practice reviews.
- Maintains strictest confidentiality
- Complies with all State Federal professional regulations as well as company and departmental rules polices and procedural manuals
- Adherence to HIPAA Safety and OSHA Regulations
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education/Licensure/Certification:
- High school diploma or equivalent
Experience:
- 4 years medical billing experience with exposure to charge entry posting claims processing and collections.
Requirements:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Excel Word and Outlook.
Equipment:
- General office equipment including but not limited to personal computers fax machines copiers and printers.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Experience in LIS (WindowPath AP Easy or Intellipath) software systems preferred but not required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
- Ability to work independently and on a team
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a changing work environment
Environmental Working Conditions:
- Office Setting with some minimal time in a Laboratory Setting; minor risk of exposure to communicable diseases toxic substances blood borne pathogens and chemical hazards.
Physical Requirements:
- Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger; handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision distance vision and the ability to focus. Requires visual acuity and normal color perception.
HIPAA/PHI Security Level: High (Low Medium or High)
Indicate the security access level of Protected Health Information (PHI) as necessary to perform essential key responsibilities of the position (access utilize disclose store and/ or dispose of PHI).
Low information access is of general nature representing summary type data rather than specific identifiable demographic or sensitive data. Medium information access is specific to an individuals demographics and service information (type of service services received dates of service and provider of service). High information access is detailed and sensitive to an individuals demographics service information and personal medical history (past/present medical conditions specifics of medical diagnosis or tests treatment plans and family history).
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Work Shift:
Job Category:
Accounts ReceivableCompany:
Sonic Healthcare USA IncSonic Healthcare USA is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to an inclusive workplace for all employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion age national origin disability genetics veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
