Patient Access Representative Senior - Cardiology - Full Time - Full-time

p/ppuspan style="font-weight:800"Summary:/span/u/pp/ppThe Patient Access Representative Senior performs duties relating to financial aspects of patient care, including financial counseling, billing and collection of accounts. Additionally, the job duties will include ensuring the hospital maintains compliance with Federal regulations, JCAHO, and Department of Health and Hospital compliance standards, along with communicating directly with patients and families, physicians, nurses, insurance companies and third party payers. The Patient Access Representative Senior also handles difficult patient account management issues escalated by other staff, and assists managers with various other duties as necessary./ppu style="font-size:1.6rem"span style="font-weight:800"Responsibilities:/span/ubr //pp/pp/pulliMeets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders./liliSubmits insurance claims to third party payors electronically and on paper. Follows up on unpaid third party claims to resolution (payment or denial)./liliEvaluates and processes accounts for adjustments, charity, outside assistance or bad debt. Analyzes accounts to ensure full reimbursement and to satisfy patient and/or insurance company inquiries./liliCollects balances due from patients using phone calls, personal contact, statements, letters or third party services./liliReceives, processes and responds to correspondence or phone inquiries from patients, guarantors, insurance companies, attorneys, etc./liliCompiles data, tracks results and reports to management./liliMay be assigned specialty responsibilities in the areas of refunds, reconciliation, balancing and/or posting and in data collection and analysis./liliHandles difficult patient account management issues referred by other staff./liliSupports the department in achieving established performance targets./liliTakes personal responsibility to ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standards as promulgated by state and federal agencies, the hospital, and other regulatory entities./liliPerforms all duties in a manner that protects the confidentiality of patients and does not solicit or disclose any confidential information unless it is necessary in the performance of assigned job duties./liliAssists managers with various duties including, but not limited to, review of write-offs, adjustments, refunds and discounts; coordinating work group activities; and training of other staff./li/ulp/ppspan style="font-weight:800;font-size:1.6rem"uJob Requirements:/u/spanbr //pp/ppstrongEducation/Skills/strong/p ulliHigh School Diploma or equivalent experience preferred/li/ul pstrongExperience/strong/p ulli3-5 years of experience preferred/li/ul pstrongLicenses, Registrations, or Certifications/strong /pulliNone required/li/ulp/p p/ppspan style="font-weight:800;font-size:1.6rem"u style="font-size:1.6rem"Work Schedule:/u/spanbr //pp8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday/ppspan style="font-weight:800"u style="font-size:1.6rem"Work Type:/ubr //span/ppFull Time/pp style="text-align:center"/p