Patient Services Assistant I

Job description

Job Description Performs a variety of clerical duties in assigned departments to fulfill coverage needs. Duties include but not limited to, physician's billing and collection functions, scheduling appointments for patients, answering the phone and taking messages, and compiling periodic statistical reports. Schedules appointments for patients within related ancillary departments/services, and doctors' offices. Job Responsibility: *ADA Essential Functions - * Performs all duties related to departmental physicians' billing (including but not limited to): - Completes, processes and reconciles insurance claim forms and payments. - Follows up on outstanding accounts via telephone and/or written inquiry to patients and/or third party payors. - Inputs charges, payments and adjustments to computerized system or posting to manual records. - Maintains daily, weekly and monthly records of fees collected. - Verifies insurance coverage and other related data with third party carriers. - Processes credit balance reports, preparing pre-collection notices and other correspondence/bills. - * Collects all monies due from patient at time of service.Prepares payment journals and/or makes bank deposits...