Medical Billing Specialist

Job description

- Meets established daily productivity standards. - Schedule and download the daily bill job files and processes for transmittal. - Research, correct, and re-submit rejected and denied claims. - Responsible for timely billing whether by paper or electronic claim in the appropriate claim format. - Monitor insurance claims by running appropriate reports and contacting insurance companies to resolve claims that are not paid in a timely manner- knowledge of questions to ask for proper processing. - Responsible for identifying problems and solutions or enhancements to resolve billing issues including, but not limited to, billing frequency, required forms, and general billing requirements. - Identify problem accounts and escalate as appropriate. - Update the patient account record to identify actions taken on the account. - Manages clearinghouse and payor accept/reject reports timely while ensuring all claim rejections are resolved within 72 hours of rejection occurrence. - Logs repetitive errors or exceptions and reports them to management to ensure the admission record and related systems are properly updated and corrected. - Coordinates with collectors and management to become familia...