Lead Billing Coordinator
Join our PharMerica team! PharMerica is a closed-door pharmacy where you can focus on fulfilling the pharmaceutical needs of our long-term care and senior living clients. We offer a non-retail pharmacy environment. Our organization is in high growth mode, which means advancement opportunities for individuals who are looking for career progression!
Schedule
Mon-Fri (8:30am to 5pm). This is a hybrid opportunity. Applicants must reside in, or be within commutable distance to, Louisville, KY.
Benefits
- DailyPay
- Flexible schedules
- Competitive pay
- Shift differential
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
- Tuition assistance
- Employee discount program
- 401k
- Paid-time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Non-retail/closed-door environment
Responsibilities
- Helps manage staff appropriately and sets clear expectations for performance.
- Works directly with Supervisor to develop audit criteria for productivity/accuracy metrics related to all pre-billing and reporting review.
- Prioritizes and delegates job tasks to ensure timely completion.
- Supports and manages business policies and procedures to maintain workflow standards.
- Conducts routine meetings with Supervisor and staff to review current state and engage all staff in discussion for improvement.
- Audits billing functions regularly for compliance to policies, procedures, and contract and government regulations.
- Assists Supervisor in overseeing daily billing activities per policies and procedures when necessary.
- Addresses performance and/or business issues while keeping direct manager informed.
- Participates in various billing-specific sub-groups to identify all attributes for best practice implementation and influences development of policies and procedures, as well as identifies appropriate training material and educational opportunities.
- Ensures appropriate, timely, and professional communications occur with implementation team, Account Management team, and Community staff as needed.
- Works and partners with other internal departments.
- Follows all applicable government regulations including HIPAA.
- Participates in projects and/or management meetings.
- Through interim statement review on a monthly basis, ensures charges are accurate.
- Reviews Community/resident bills and resolves any erroneous charges by adding and removing as necessary, and documenting in the client file with notes.
- Reviews and reconciles billing statements with private financial plans.
- Responds to Community/Resident disputes over billing of services.
- Works with responsible parties, receiving inbound/outbound telephone calls, providing customer service through explaining why they are being billed.
- Works with Client Billing Coordinator/Supervisor in researching pharmacy accounts requiring special attention.
- Helps maintain new communities onboarding and master contact sheet by utilizing QuickBase to track and load information.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED required
- Kentucky Pharmacy Tech License preferred
- Excellent customer service and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to prioritize and meet pre-determined deadlines
- Must be able to effectively multi-task, be proficient at typing, and have advanced technical skills
- Experience in healthcare billing environment (pharmacy preferred)
- Familiarization with online claims processing and Medicaid and Medicare billing practices
- Proficient with Microsoft Word & Excel required
About Our Line of Business
Pharmacy Alternatives®, an affiliate of PharMerica, is a specialized pharmacy provider focused on serving individuals with cognitive or intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Pharmacy Alternatives offers long-term pharmacy solutions specializing in serving special-needs populations who live in intermediate care facilities, waiver homes, group homes, assisted living, supported-living, or foster care. Our state-of-the-art approach includes packaging technology specially designed for the population we serve and electronic medication management that helps people live their best lives.