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Manager of Insurance Services

Medical Associates Clinic · Dubuque, IA · 1 mo ago
On-siteFinanceFull-time

Position

The Insurance Services Manager leads Insurance Services operations to secure timely, accurate, and compliant reimbursement from commercial, government, and managed care payers. Key responsibilities include overseeing claim follow-up, denial prevention and resolution, prior authorization support, underpayment review, payer escalation, reimbursement monitoring, and payer relations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop Insurance Services staff, including recruitment, onboarding, training, coaching, performance evaluation, engagement, and professional development.

  • Set and monitor productivity, quality, accuracy, timeliness, and service expectations.

  • Address performance issues, support succession planning, and promote accountability, continuous improvement, and service excellence.

  • Oversee insurance follow-up, denial resolution, appeals, underpayment recovery, and reimbursement issue resolution.

  • Analyze denial and aging trends, identify root causes, and implement corrective action with providers, clinical leadership, coding, registration, billing, and other revenue cycle teams to improve first-pass accuracy and reimbursement outcomes.

  • Track, analyze, and report key revenue cycle indicators, including insurance A/R, denial trends, appeal outcomes, payer turnaround, underpayment trends, productivity, quality, clean-claim performance, and reimbursement results.

  • Prepare leadership reports and recommend workflow, staffing, training, or payer escalation strategies.

  • Serve as the primary operational contact for insurance carriers, managed care organizations, and governmental payers.

  • Coordinate payer issue resolution, reimbursement analysis, contract-related payment concerns, policy clarification, and escalation discussions.

  • Monitor payer policy changes and communicate operational impacts to affected departments.

  • Manage payer- and insurance-related correspondence, escalated patient complaints, operational reports, and required records.

  • Ensure issues are resolved timely and documented appropriately.

  • Perform administrative duties, including budget input, meeting participation, staff/resource planning, data compilation, and operational reporting.

  • Maintain departmental policies, procedures, workflows, and internal controls to support payer, Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA, and other applicable requirements.

  • Cookordination staff education, corrective action, and process updates when compliance concerns or audit findings are identified.

  • Complete all other assigned projects and duties.

Knowledge & Skills

  • Experience: Three years to five years of similar or related experience.

  • Education: Equivalent to a two-year college degree or completion of a specialized course of study or certification at a business or trade school. Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.

  • Interpersonal Skills: A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.

Benefits Package

  • Single or Family Health Insurance with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation.

  • 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay + additional annual Profit Sharing)

  • Flexible Paid Time Off Program (29 days off/year)

  • Medical and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts

  • Life insurance, Long Term Disability Coverage, Short Term Disability Coverage, Dental Insurance, etc.

Schedule

Core business hours for this position are Monday - Friday, between the hours of 7:30am and 5:00pm with flexibility to attend meetings outside core business hours on occasion.

Qualifications

This position requires a high-level of flexibility, independent thinking, and the ability to work autonomously.

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