AR Clerk - Hospital

Job description

Job Description
Performs a variety of duties related to billing and collection, including but not limited to, completing UBF and various billing forms, inputting and/or manual posting charges, payments and adjustments and referring accounts for collection.
Job Responsibility
• * Performs all duties related to billing and collection accounts including, but not limited to:
• Completing UBF and various billing forms.
• Processing itemized bills.
• Preparing and entering batch totals and batch tickets.Reconciling and closing batches.
• Requesting medical summaries.
• Printing microfiche medical charts and filing.
• Inputting charges, payments and adjustments to computerized system or posts to manual records.
• Pursuing all third party carriers and patients for payment on hospital bills.Prepares correspondence and/or bills.
• Setting up financial agreements with patients.Verifies insurance coverage and other related data with third party carriers.
• Referring accounts for collection.
• Correcting carrier codes, revenue codes, patient demographics, adjusting allowances, etc.Verifies insurance carriers and other related data.
• Entering and verifying appropriate codes and explanation on Patient Account systems.
• * May maintain daily, weekly and monthly records of fees collected.
• * May perform a variety of cashier functions.
• Performs related duties, as required.

ADA Essential Functions
Job Qualification
• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
• Knowledge of billing or credit/collection procedures, required.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, ICD-9 coding, CPT codes and automated systems, preferred.
• Ability to input data to computerized system.
• Ability to communicate effectively.

Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).