What are the responsibilities and job description for the RCM Specialist position at AdaptHealth?
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RCM Specialist
This position is responsible for maintaining a timely revenue cycle and ensures accurate payment for goods and services according to contracted rates and/or payor fee schedules. Also responsible for maintaining patient confidentiality and function within the guidelines of HIPAA.
Job Duties:
Accounts Receivable:
- Collect on accounts by sending bills or following up on bills with payers via phone, email, fax, mail, or websites.
- Investigate and resolve customer inquiries regarding charges.
- Monitor patient account details for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities.
- Communicate with customers regarding insurance, payments, and invoices.
Authorization and Confirmation:
- Collaborates with internal & external customers to provide status updates & coordinate appeals on denied authorization.
- Resolves pending revenue by reconciling approved authorizations and pending charges.
- Ensure orders will bill correctly to insurance.
Data Support:
- Responsible for the daily claims submissions/printing for all eligible/ready status claims
- Resolves all claim rejections in a timely manner to guarantee submission within the timely filing requirements of the payers.
Unbilled Revenue:
- Analyze documentation required for billing services and ensure compliance to payer requirements.
- Resolve pending revenue by reconciling received?documentation?and pending charges.
- Requests authorization from state Medicaid programs.
- Maintains and updates physician databases to ensure accurate delivery of billing documentation and communications with physician offices.
- Completes accurate documentation of authorization request and follow up activities on each account.
Patient Financial Services
- Identify trends and root causes related to inaccurate private pay billing, and report to manager while resolving account errors.
- Investigate escalated customer billing inquiries and take appropriate action to resolve the account.
- Respond to Collection agency regarding patient disputes of balances owed on accounts.
All RCM Specialist responsibilities:
- Educate patients, staff and providers regarding authorization requirements, payer coverage, eligibility guidelines, documentation requirements, and insurance changes or trends
- Maintains an extensive knowledge of different types of payer coverage, insurance policies, payer guidelines and payer contracts ensure accurate billing and timely payment is received.
- Responsible for entering data in an accurate manner, into database including although not limited to payer, authorization requirements, coverage limitations and status of any requalification.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Competency, Skills and Abilities:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communication.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Proficient computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
- Solid ability to learn new technologies and possess the technical aptitude required to understand flow of data through systems as well as system interaction.
Requirements
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- One (1) year work related experience in health care administrative, financial, or insurance customer services, claims, billing, call center or management regardless of industry.
- Exact job experience is considered any of the above tasks in a Medicare certified HME, Diabetic, Pharmacy, or home medical supplies environment that routinely bills insurance.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Vision
- Dental
- 401K
- PTO
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Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Salary : $27,100 - $34,300