Financial Counselor
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Job Location:
Newburgh, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Schedule: Monday Friday; 8A-5P
Your experience matters
At Brentwood Springs we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality scalability and significant impact across our hospitals and your role youll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members. We believe that our collective efforts will shape a healthier future for the communities we serve.
What we offer
Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our addition to your base compensation this position also offers:
- Health (Medical Dental Vision) and 401K Benefits for full-time employees
- Competitive Paid Time Off
- Employee Assistance Program mental physical and financial wellness assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance for qualified applicants
- And much more...
About Us
People are our passion and purpose. Brentwood Springs is a 48 bed hospital located in Newburgh IN and is part of Lifepoint Health a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier with acute care rehabilitation and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestoneyour experience matters
How youll contribute
A Financial Counselor maintains and processes all assigned patient accounts and counsels patients regarding the admitting and discharging processes and payment alternatives. Work is of a confidential nature.
Qualifications and requirements
- Applicants should have a high school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of 1 year of business or bookkeeping experience
Essential Functions:
- Counsels patients (or responsible parties) to establish payment method.
- Contacts patients in advance of admission to obtain missing information particularly patients signature for accepting obligation to pay.
- Estimates and informs patient of portion of bill which must be paid directly.
- Establishes a payment for patients unable to pay the estimated portion of bill upon discharge. Identifies and reports to manager patients with whom payment difficulties arose in the past.
- Ensures completeness of pre-admission and admission information following through as needed to obtain and document missing information/signatures prior to patients admission date.
- Checks for and identifies patients with histories of payment problems and informs supervisor of any found prior to patients admission date.
- Accurately interprets insurance policy provisions and calculates self-pay portion of patients bill based on expected length of stay and services rendered so that final accounting of self-pay amount is within a reasonable variance from estimate.
- Patiently clearly and accurately advises patient of self-pay obligations and estimate and ensures that patient signs acceptance of such obligation on the designated forms.
- Collects self-pay monies in advance upon entry or at discharge according to cases where patient is unable to pay self-pay portion due upon discharge ensures that a mutually agreed upon payment agreement is documented and signed by all parties in compliance with established guidelines and procedures.
- Selects and applies appropriate communications based on the age of the patient/customer.
- Maintains knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements related to state and federal agencies such as Medicare Medicaid Tricare Veterans Administration and other demonstrates this knowledge by the accurately obtaining information and updating records to remain in compliance.
- Collects and Controls cash receipts.
- Collects patient deductible co-pays and non-covered patient charge amounts.
- Maintains and balances cash drawer.
- Prepares daily cash report and submits to Cashier with collected monies and copies of Relay
- Account Report/Daily Deposit Reconciliation.
- Determines the appropriate amount due from the patient through eligibility and insurance verification by evidence of the insurance card or in the event of no insurance follow Self-pay processes/policies.
- Maintains control over cash payments so that receipts balance to cash drawer.
- Accurately prepares deposit documentation and delivers deposits.
EEOC Statement:
Brentwood Springs is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color race sex age religion national origin disability genetic information gender identity sexual orientation veterans status or any other basis protected by applicable federal state or local law.
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Financial Models
- Account Management
- General Ledger Accounts
- ERP
- Payroll
- External Auditors
- Customer Relationships
- Credit Card
- Financial Statements
- Business Units
- Annual Budget
- Income
- New Clients
- Financial Management
About Company
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 a ... View more
