Finance Associate
EVERSANA
Financial Assessor, Patient Accounting
Northwestern Medicine
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $20 - $26 per hour
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Financial Assessor Patient Accounting reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM
- Consistently meet the current productivity and quality standards in timely resolution of all claim edits
- Reporting of candidates for bill
- Outbound compliant claim submission
- Clinical documentation requirements
- Timely follow-up and collection of third party payer receivables
- Denials and Appeals follow-up including root cause analysis to reduce/prevent future denials
- Compliant follow-up correspondence to third party payers regarding outstanding accounts receivables
- Support the operations related to optimum third party accounts receivables
- Perform daily, systematic reviews of work lists to ensure all accounts already to be worked are completed
- Recommend accounts for contractual or administrative write-off and provide appropriate justification and documentation
- Practice HIPAA privacy standards and ensure compliance with patient health information privacy practices
- Identify opportunities for customer, system and process improvement and submit to management
Requirements
- High School diploma
- One year related work experience or college degree
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations
- Basic knowledge of medical terminology and billing practices
- Extensive experience and knowledge of PC applications, including Microsoft Office and Excel
- Learn quickly and meet continuous timelines
- Exhibit behaviors consistent with principles of excellent service.
- Two or more years’ college or college degree preferred.
- Call center, telephone work experience or cash collections experience preferred.
- Knowledge of Epic Systems preferred.
- Two (2) years progressive work experience in a hospital/ physician billing or SBO environment preferred.
- Detail-oriented, good organizational skills, and ability to be self-directed preferred.
- Strong time management skills, managing multiple priorities and a heavy workload in a high-stress atmosphere preferred.
- Flexibility to perform other tasks as needed in an active work environment with changing work needs preferred.
- High-level problem solving, analytical, and investigational skills preferred.
- Excellent internal/external customer service skills preferred.
Benefits
- competitive benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- loan forgiveness
- 401(k) matching
- lifecycle benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
mathematical calculationsmedical terminologybilling practicesEpic Systemsaccounts receivablesdenials and appealsroot cause analysisHIPAA compliancedocumentationsystematic reviews
Soft skills
detail-orientedorganizational skillsself-directedtime managementproblem solvinganalytical skillsinvestigational skillscustomer serviceflexibilityability to meet timelines
