Accounting Assistant

About the role

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care. More importantly we are proud to be a community based, not for profit hospice & palliative care provider. We have deep community roots, with decades of experience serving ALL patients’ and families’ needs regardless of their ability to pay or their medical complexity. We are a people first organization whose funds go to serve our mission. Due to our significant growth, we are looking for amazing new staff who share these same values.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

Responsibilities

• Maintain positive relationships with facility billing staff.
• Respond timely and accurately to requests for information.
• Responsible for room and board workflows that verify a nursing facility patient’s eligibility for Medicaid pass through room and board.
• Enter information into the patient care system to ensure timely and accurate billing to Medicaid each month.
• Maintain the HART spreadsheets and reconcile those spreadsheets with the patient care system billing details before billing.
• Verify the PML for each patient each month and update in HART and the patient care system.
• Create and use monthly reports in preparation for billing.
• Posts the 5% contractual adjustment into the patient care system associated with Medicaid pass through room and board billing.
• Verify receipt of payment from Medicaid after billing has been completed.
• Research Medicaid denials and reach out to proper contacts, (inside/outside the organization) to get corrections needed for claims to be paid.
• Prices and codes nursing facility invoices for payment based on Medicaid payments received and what has been booked into liability schedules through the HART entry.
• Enters nursing facility invoices into accounting system A/P module (Stampli) for payment via check or ACH.
• Check pending Medicaid patients for retroactive coverage.
• Sort mail received at the Shelby office and route to the proper personnel.
• Maintain The Hospice Store log of receipts and prepare deposits to go to the bank.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, or work experience.
• Working knowledge of automated accounting systems.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office are required.
• Minimum of 5 years’ working experience with billing in a healthcare facility.