Charge Audit Specialist
Tenet Healthcare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $31 - $46 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Conducts reviews/audits to identify potential charging & billing issues including lost revenue opportunities; prepares reports based on findings, and provides summary of findings to impacted departments.
- Works with clinical departments and other impacted departments to ensure audit findings are addressed and to assist in implementing best charging practice moving forward.
- Identifies, researches and analyzes billing errors and/or omissions, working with appropriate staff/team members; ensures that revisions/corrections forwarded and incorporated in processing systems in timely manner.
- Provides training to staff engaged in billing data entry and related charge-capture/reconciliation activities to ensure procedures are understood and that charges booked are timely, appropriate, accurate, complete and properly documented.
- Stays current with CMS, AHA & state coding/charging & reimbursement guidelines.
- Other duties as assigned to meet client expectations that would include root cause analysis, research of complex charging issues, implementation of corrective actions & provide subject matter expertise during system upgrades & implementations.
Requirements
- Five years recent directly related work experience in a healthcare environment with significant exposure to healthcare coding/billing/reimbursement or completion of a recognized course of study for health information practitioners or coding specialists and three years coding experience in an acute hospital health information management department
- Applicable clinical or professional certifications and licenses such as LVN/LPN and RN highly desirable
- Hospital charge audit experience highly desirable
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Paid time off (vacation & sick leave) – min of 12 days per year, accrue at a rate of approximately 1.84 hours per 40 hours worked.
- 401k with up to 6% employer match
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance.
- For Colorado employees, Conifer offers paid leave in accordance with Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
billing analysischarge capturereconciliationroot cause analysiscodinghealth information managementreport preparationauditerror identificationdata entry
Soft skills
trainingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailorganizational skillssubject matter expertise
Certifications
LVNLPNRN