ACCOUNTANT I - 64000684

Requisition No: 843796 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: ACCOUNTANT I - 64000684

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 64000684 

Salary:  $40,000 - $41,800.20 

Posting Closing Date: 01/02/2025 

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Title: ACCOUNTANT I - 64000684

Location: Naples, FL 

INTERNAL AGENCY OPPORTUNITY

Applicants accepted only from Florida Department of Health employees, (includes OPS, Career Service, SES or SMS employees). Applicants will not be accepted from outside of the department. 

 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position is assigned to the Health Information Management Office with the Department of Health in Collier County (DOH-Collier). The incumbent must be able to work with a team and must be able to communicate effectively with clients and representatives from 3rd party insurance companies, Medicaid and Medicare for the verification of insurance and coverage. Additionally, this position serves as a key member of a health information management team responsible for client scheduling, registration, clinic check-in/check-out, fee collection, and other billing functions. Continuously demonstrates the Department's ICARE values. This position reports to the Health Information Manager-SES

 

Medical Billing: Performs billing functions for the DOH-Collier including, but not limited to:

• Tracks, maintains and monitors HMS billing discrepancies. Researches and corrects billing and coding discrepancies.
• Provides technical assistance, training and guidance through staff training, and correspondence or via the telephone.
• Serves on work teams to solve operational and programmatic issues. At least quarterly visits billing hub to address coding and billing issues.
• Charges entry, collects fees, including co-payments, deductibles, and balances from clients according to the established sliding scales, agency policy or private insurance protocols.
• Accounts for and documents fees collected according to established policy.
• Adheres to End of Day (FOO) policies and procedures which includes, but is not limited to, cash drawer maintenance, billing reconciliation and entering chargeable items.
• Produces Cash Drawer Report and reconciles receipts with refunds. Transport fees according to Cashier policy to be securely kept overnight in the safe.
• Receives and audits CSR for completeness and accuracy.
• Reconciles CSR for errors, obtains corrections, and prepares for billing.
• Generates and reviews unbilled records and provided client services in HMS using HMS Report Portal.
• Promptly takes corrective action for all billing errors found in course of billing reviews of clinics.
• Resubmits claims when needed, manually completes claims when necessary.
• Works as the DOH Collier Liaison with billing HUB to address all claim denials.
• Reviews the monthly list of clients to be sent to collections to guarantee no payment plan had been stablished between the client and DOH.

 

Health Information Management: Performs Health Information management functions for the Florida Department of Health in Collier County including, but not limited to:

Health Management System (HMS):

• Makes clinic appointments utilizing HMS Scheduling Module.
• Registers clients for services in HMS, determines financial eligibility and payment status.
• Posts services into the services and billing module in HMS.
• Merges Duplicate Clients in HMS using the monthly duplicate report under System Administrator Module.
• Incumbent is responsible for updating prices in HMS according to changes in the Fee Schedule and coordinating update of CBR rates with billing Hub each year.
• Incumbent is responsible for obtaining and updating NDC Vaccine numbers every year.