Financial Family Advocate I
Center for Health Care Strategies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Orlando • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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Junior
About the role
- Utilizing high-level customer service, healthcare finance knowledge, and excellent communication skills, the Family Financial Advocate will facilitate, educate, and communicate to patients/families about the financial aspects of seeking treatment at Nemours.
- Conducting interviews, gathering, assembling, and reviewing sensitive information supplied by applicants.
- Work directly with insurance carriers to determine benefit level, coordination of benefits, coinsurance and deductible amounts and communicate financial obligations to the guarantor.
- Responsible for determining a suitable financial assistance program for each family identified as being in need, developing payment arrangements, collecting prepayments, providing cost estimates to patients and providers, and approving discounts.
- Research and address a broad range of inquiries covering items such as insurance regulation and processing protocols, charge discrepancies, benefit interpretation and adjudication.
- Support the Medicaid Enrollment processes.
Requirements
- Associate Degree or equivalent of education, training, and experience required.
- Minimum three (3) years of hospital experience and working knowledge of patient accounting functions including pre-admissions and admission registration will be considered in lieu of an Associate Degree.
- Minimum one (1) year of experience required.
- Registration, insurance, billing and/or relevant experience.
- Knowledge of Epic and EMR applications.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation in the top quartile of the market
- Annual incentive compensation that values clinical activity, academic accomplishments and quality improvement
- Comprehensive benefits: health, life, dental, vision
- Mortgage assistance, relocation packages and 403B with employer match, 457 retirement savings plans
- Licensure, CME and dues allowance
- Not-for-profit status; eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- For those living and working in Florida, enjoy the benefit of no state income tax. Those based in Delaware benefit from the state's moderate tax structure.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
healthcare financepatient accountinginsurance billingfinancial assistance programscost estimationbenefit interpretationadjudication
Soft skills
customer servicecommunicationinterpersonal skillseducational skills
Certifications
Associate Degree