Billing Coordinator

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Frye Regional Medical Center, located in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina is a 355-bed acute care hospital, 81-bed Behavioral Health facility and more than 70 primary and specialty care providers.

Essential Functions

Serve as primary point of contact for all revenue cycle processes and follow up requests related to charge posting, accounts receivable, payment and patient account activities, for both hospital clinics and PMDS.

Provide training, feedback and assistance to hospital clinic staff relating to pre-visit revenue cycle impacting processes, including demographic and insurance entry/information, patient TOS payment collection, eligibility verification, authorizations and provider credentialing.

Oversee and perform bank/payment reconciliation/balance processes, as well as any clinic deposit and cash reconciliation processes.

Periodically review clinic charge posting activities for compliance and adherence to accepted practices and documented processes, as well as assist in posting hospital clinic charges where responsibility is designated.

Review/respond to/resolve claim scrubs, front-end denials, back-end denials, and appeals where responsibility is designated, including providing training, feedback, and assistance to hospital clinics in preventing the recurrence of problematic claims.

Provide PMDS and hospital clinics with requested feedback, respond to general inquiries, process paper-based requests, assist with/locate missing EOBs, post patient payments, assist with patient billing phone calls, and reconcile patient bad addresses/returned mail.

Assist with insurance/patient refunds processing and reconciliation between accounting and PMDS, including reviewing refunds lists, obtaining check numbers for refund checks processed, and assisting in the overall unapplied credits process.

Oversee and monitor 3rd party payer/provider/department enrollment processes and ensure timely communication of changes/updates to hospital clinics, PMDS and other impacted parties.

Collaborate with PMDS and other LifePoint hospitals/corporate departments to disseminate best demonstrated practices.

Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, standards, and laws.

Work on special projects, as needed.

OTHER FUNCTIONS

Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

Performs other essential duties as assigned.