Financial Coordinator, Full Time - Days

About the role

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Financial Coordinator. This position will be primarily a work-from-home opportunity, with the requirement to come onsite as needed.

Responsibilities

• Posting of payment batches to BHIS from LockBox, Cashiering, and other clinical areas (PDP's).
• Posting of check requests on patient accounts.
• Keys data onto Excel spreadsheet for ledger reconciliation.
• Posting of NSF checks on patient accounts.
• Batching and balancing various types of vouchers for data entry (i.e. IDPA, Collection Agencies).
• Balancing Lockbox/Cashiering Deposits and preparing Excel spreadsheets for ledger reconciliations.
• Review of payments for non-UCH receipts and write-up of appropriate paperwork to process fund transfers.
• Review of EDI vouchers: a) Posting NOF's and miscellaneous exceptions to either patient accounts or the 999 account; b) Balancing the EDI voucher amounts to actual wire amounts received and monies posted; c) Logs EDI information on Excel spreadsheets for ledger reconciliation.
• Documentation of wire deposits on Excel spreadsheets for ledger implementation.
• Identification, computation and batching of contractual allowances for various payers.
• Research payments where insufficient information is supplied or accounts have gone to zero through various Hospital applications (e.g. BHIS, WinCoins).
• Prepare inquiry letters to various carriers to determine the proper application of Unidentifiable monies received.
• Reopen accounts on BHIS system.
• Interacts with management and others in identifying Cash Application issues and determining solutions.
• Processes deposits and application of payments in a timely fashion.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be proficient in a Windows environment to be capable of multi‑tasking functions.
• Should also be proficient in Excel for Windows.