Medical Billing / Collection Specialist
Express Employment Professionals
- New Orleans, LA
- $21.00-23.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Daily eligibility/benefits verification for clinic/hospital services
- Process Insurance Benefit verifications
- Initiate insurance authorizations
- Obtain pre-authorizations for surgery from insurance carriers.
- Reviewing patient accounts for collections according to practice policy
- Thorough understanding of payer contracts
- Reviewing and working claims for denials, appeals, holds, etc., to ensure prompt payment and timely filing is not an issue
- Act as backup to the other roles within the billing department- A/R representatives and charge entry coordinator.
- Data entry
- Answer multi-phone lines
- Cross trains in other areas
- At least 2 of collections experience in a hospital or medical office setting
- Experience with Blue Cross Blue Shield billing