Billing Representative ll

Description

Pulmonary Medicine Associates (PMA) has been treating patients in the greater Sacramento area since 1973 and is a unique and exciting place to work. With specialties that include critical care, infectious disease, palliative care, pulmonology, pediatric pulmonology, sleep medicine, and travel medicine, we are a busy practice with over 70 providers and 2 outpatient clinic locations.

PMA currently has a full-time Billing Representative ll position available. Because we value our employees, PMA offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, PTO, and 401k with generous company match. Please visit our website at www.pmamed.com to learn more. PMA is an equal opportunity employer.

Duties Include:

· Performs claims research, appeals and related follow up using Athena Health Collector/Clinicals.

· Follows up on accounts until no balance or turned over for collection.

· Assists with answering the telephone and provides information as requested.

· Performs other work as required. 

Requirements

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

· High school diploma or GED.

· CPC required

· Three plus years related work experience in a medical billing environment preferred.

· Knowledge of medical terminology, including CPT and ICD-10.

· Knowledge of medical billing procedures, coding, Medi-Cal, Medicare, worker’s compensation and HMO/PPO insurance programs.

· Knowledge of self pay and collection procedures.

· Knowledge of in-patient and out-patient professional billing.

· Excellent phone etiquette and verbal communication skills.

· Strong computer skills, including Excel and Word proficiency, and strong math skills.

· Strong customer service skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, patients and the general public. 

· Strong detail orientation, ability to perform research and ability to examine documents for accuracy and completeness.  

· Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.  

· Ability to work independently and juggle multiple priorities.

· Must be able to accurately type 45 WPM.

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: Must be able to work in a climate controlled, office environment. Sit for extended periods of time. Ability to read and write in order to process paperwork. Manual dexterity needed for keyboarding and other repetitive office tasks. Vision must be good or corrected to normal to perform normal job duties. Hearing must be good to have the ability to understand information to perform job duties.