Insurance Collector

Overview: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system./span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Responsible for the timely follow-up on accounts and resolves denials and/or correspondence./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Assists in process improvements to bring about greater claim resolution. Has frequent contact with team members, third party payers and other medical center personnel./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"br /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Appropriately works the accounts receivable and denials using the collection tool and/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"policies and procedures to achieve department and hospital goals./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Posts adjustments for appropriate account reconciliation and resolution./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Rebills accounts and posts payments as required./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Understands contracts and payer specific guidelines in order to ensure timely follow-up /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"to avoid untimely denials and delays in cash flow./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Maintains and facilitates communication within the business and clinical divisions./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Responds professionally and within appropriate timeframes to telephone, e-mail and task/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"inquiries./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Participates in collector meetings, performance improvement activities and committees as/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"assigned. Utilizes issues log when necessary./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Meets productivity standards for working outstanding accounts and denials in an effort to/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"achieve claim resolution./spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Other job duties as assigned/span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- High School graduate or GED/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- One year of clerical experience in an office setting; hospital or clinic collection experience preferred/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Knowledge of coding rules and guidelines and the ability to appropriately interpret EOBs/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate verbally and in/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"writing providing excellent customer service/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities/tasks/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"simultaneously in a fast paced environment/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Ability to maintain acute attention to detail/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Basic computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Windows/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Basic proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)/spanbr /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"- Experience with insurance billing computer applications preferred/span/p