Healthcare Reimbursement Advocate | Patient Financial Services

Current Employees:

If you are a current employee, please apply via the internal career site by logging into your Workday Account and clicking the "Career"icon on your homepage.

Primary Location

Department

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Starting Pay Rate Range

(Determined by the knowledge, skills, and experience of the applicant.)

Job Summary

Monument Health offers competitive wages and benefits on qualifying positions. Some of those benefits can include:

*Supportive work culture

*Medical, Vision and Dental Coverage

*Retirement Plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account

*Instant pay is available for qualifying positions

*Paid Time Off Accrual Bank

*Opportunities for growth and advancement

*Tuition assistance/reimbursement

*Excellent pay differentials on qualifying positions (extra pay for working evening, nights or weekends)

*Flexible scheduling

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Conducts all necessary review, analysis, and follow up on unresolved account balances from the complete Monument Health system utilizing a vast multitude of varying software packages and their functions, in accordance with established guidelines to ensure a positive patient and family experience.
• Demonstrates application of follow up processes necessary to ensure prompt, appropriate reimbursement and resolution of unresolved account balances due from responsible parties/patients.
• Conducts interviews and dialogue with patients, their families, and Monument Health subject matter experts in a professional manner utilizing public relation skills. Provides patient counseling to promote open communication, establish absolute comprehension and concern resolution, and initiate payment arrangements and/or financial assistance on outstanding account balances in accordance with established guidelines.
• Reviews and identifies accounts which are absent of acceptable payment terms and performs the necessary actions to cycle those accounts to an appropriate agency for escalated collection activities. Runs reports and performs necessary skip tracing activities to locate responsible parties in a cost efficient manner.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively and efficiently utilizing verbal and written skills. Contacts and counsels patient and family support teams by telephone, in direct contact interviews, and by utilizing written correspondence to provide satisfactory resolution of unresolved account balances in accordance within established timeliness standards and public relations guidelines to ensure a positive patient experience.
• Demonstrates application of reimbursement and collection policies according to established guidelines. Displays proficient application of all federal, state, and local regulations relating to the extension of Healthcare services, revenue cycle billing and collections, and all allowable follow up procedures and processes.
• Displays a working knowledge of third party payer procedures such as eligibility and verification, claims submission, reimbursement, as well as an understanding of collection policies. Demonstrates this knowledge for third party payer groups including, but not limited to: Medicare, Medicaid, Champus, Blue Cross and all other third party contractual agreements entered into by Monument Health.
• Timely identifies additional or incorrect information causing errors on pending claims through direct communication with insurance companies. Researches and verifies the accuracy of transactions appearing on identified accounts, gathers and refers the necessary information to all subject matter experts to correct errors, expediting reimbursement and ensuring satisfactory account resolution and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborates and effectively communicates pertinent information in a professional manner to promote a positive work environment with all internal Monument Health caregivers including but not limited to: Patient Financial Services Claims Analysts, Health Information Management, Patient Financial Services Third Party Financial Advocates, and all other divisions and department subject matter experts and caregivers.
• Maintains work areas in a neat and clean condition in accordance with any established guidelines and department expectations.
• All other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements

Required:
Education - High School Diploma/GED Equivalent in General Studies

Preferred:
Experience - 1+ years of Billing/Collections Experience; 1+ years of Healthcare Experience
Education - Bachelors degree in Related Field

Job Category

Job Family

Shift

Employee Type

Make a difference. Every day.

MonumentHealthis an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.