Payment Poster- Physician Billing

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A Brief Overview
Payment poster is responsible for applying government, commercial, international, and other payments accurately to accounts. They will perform a variety of accounting activities while safeguarding revenue collected to ensure all financial transactions are accurately accounted. Reconciliation of all manual and electronic payments including lockbox. This position could be assigned to hospital, professional, or home care department. Supports the CHOP mission with efficient and effective revenue cycle management.

What you will do

• Timely payment posting, perform adjustment when appropriate, and complete cash transfers within multiple systems.
• Reconciliation of posted batches to ensure proper resolution of accounts. Inform collection teams when adjustments are causing credits or accounts are not closing.
• Research unidentified payments on accounts to resolve account discrepancies to resolution.
• Working experience with electronic remits and payment posting preferred.
• Basic understanding of Lockbox processing including understanding of CHOP organizational structure and ensuring payments are posted under correct NPI to adhere with CHOP compliance guidelines.
• Posts all payments to the specified patient account in accordance with the current payment posting policy and procedure.
• Review scanned documentation to identify contractual amounts or payment that require posting to patient's accounts.
• Responsible for the collection, review, and posting of checks sent through the mail.
• Knowledge of current insurance rules and regulations.
• Proficient in interpreting EOBs.
• Ability to research, resolve and accurately document.
• Demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work habits in every interaction with colleagues and leadership.
• Provides training as assigned to new employees, as well as cross training.
• Interfaces well with all levels of staff and management.
• Meets established daily/weekly reasonable work expectation of productivity and quality requirements.
• Maintains all PHI in accordance with HIPPA, JACHO, third party contractual agreements along with CHOP policy and procedures.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with teams across Patient Financial Services and other departments around operational efficiencies.
• Provide recommendations for corrective action to management team to ensure efficiency of the revenue cycle.
• Demonstrated customer service skills, customer focus abilities and the ability to understand Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia customer needs.
• Reports safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly.
• Consistently supports compliance by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Other duties as assigned within scope of responsibilities.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma / GED - Required
• Associate's Degree - Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least one (1) year Accounts Receivables, Payment Posting, or Related Healthcare Billing experience - Required
• Experience with Epic systems - Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• HIPAA compliance standards (Required proficiency)
• Effective communication, interpersonal skills, analytical skills, and problem solving skills. (Required proficiency)
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