Busy multi-specialty medical billing and consulting company in need of an experienced Billing Associate
Required Skills:
• Minimum of 5 years of billing experience in a medical billing for professional providers - prior experience with podiatry and DME billing preferred
• Must have fluent competency with HCFA1500 claim filing, submitting claims through clearinghouses, denial management, and filing appeals
• Must have experience with claim filing and follow-up for Medicaid, Medicare, commercial, managed care plans (HMOs), workers compensation, and no-fault insurances
Strong analytical skills required to perform insurance & patient billing, receivables collection and related functions including, but not limited to:
• Charge entry, payment posting, and quality analysis to ensure uninterrupted billing for clients
• Maintain follow-up for multiple clients and coordinating with practices as needed for additional information to file appeals
• Must be able to communicate regularly with doctor's office/staff and patients relevant to daily duties
Our candidate will be:
• Assertive with an outgoing personality
• Have great communication skills
• Be self-motivated
• Professional speaking voice
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills
• Pays attention to detail
• Able to identify irregular patterns to bring to management’s attention
• Must be able to work independently as well as with a team
• Multi-tasking required
• Works well under pressure
• Flexible to the needs of management, clients, and insurance/healthcare industry changes
• Must speak, read, and write English fluently (bilingual candidates a plus)
Please note this is a full-time position. Office is located in Northern Queens. Position can be remote after training/probation period.