Job Summary:
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Accurately enters and distributes third-party payments across all revenue-generating health facilities, ensuring proper account allocation. Processes daily accounts receivable transactions, including verification, allocation, data entry, and posting. Conducts routine data validation to maintain accuracy and integrity of financial records.
Job Duties:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Prepares batch sheets for daily transactional payments to ensure proper coding to the accounting unit.
- Reconciles daily deposit lockbox batches to the bank deposit records.
- Resolves valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries.
- Makes all necessary adjustments, corrections, and write-offs as instructed.
- Communicates with payers regarding missing remittances for daily checks.
- Performs data entry for high-volume patient payments/adjustments and daily bank deposits.
- Reconciles and posts all zero balance auto-post from the revenue cycle and revenue manager.
- Assists the Supervisor with all other job-related issues.
- Other duties as assigned.
LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Performs work under direct supervision.
- Handles basic issues and problems, and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff.
- Possesses beginning to working knowledge of subject matter.
Qualifications:
QUALIFICATIONS
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED.
- At least one (1) year of experience in a related field.
COMPETENCIES
- Written communication skills.
- Ability to identify and seek needed information/research skills.
- Analytical thinking skills.
- Detail oriented.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Mathematical skills.
- Accounting skills.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee will regularly be required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The employee will occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision requirements for this job are close vision, distant vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- No additional credentials required.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- The employee must not be and will not be under sanction by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) or by the General Services Administration (GSA) or listed on the OIG's Cumulative Sanction Report, or the GSA's List of Excluded Providers, or listed on the OIG's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE).
