Mental Health Medical Billing Specialist

Elevation Individual And Family Therapy PLLC

Mental Health Medical Billing Specialist

Homewood, IL
Part Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Billing Specialist Qualifications:

    High school diploma or equivalent

    Medical or insurance billing office experience, preferably with a focus in mental health billing, including customer service

    Understanding of revenue cycle and ability to interact with government and commercial insurances

    Sound decision-making ability with respect to complex claims processing workflows including the use of external resources

    Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases

    Ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

    Ability to organize tasks, files, and emals

    Ability to maintain patient confidentiality

    Knowledge of billing procedures, medical terminology, and CPT/ICD coding highly preferred

    Cash handling experience and prior experience with Simple Practice or InSync EHR preferred

    Billing Specialist Responsibilities:

    Takes calls and responds to patient and third-party inquiries regarding services, accounts, insurance changes, billing procedures

    Posts accounts receivable payments and adjustments

    Validates accuracy of system posted A/R payments

    Manually sorts and labels outgoing mail and sorts, scans, and distributes incoming mail

    When working in office, greeting patients at front desk, as required.

    Working jointly with office manager in onboarding clients

    Performs billing records related projects.

    Researches and requests refunds as appropriate.

    Processes patient credit card payments.

    Flexible work from home options available.