Medical Billing Coordinator II - (Dental Billing)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that all patient visits are coded to legal and insurance standards.
• Read through daily appointment notes and charges and work with staff, faculty and students to correct coding and chart note errors.
• Perform follow up audits of previously flagged patient charts.
• Answer inquiries pertaining to patient accounts.
• Post EFTs, Insurance credit card payments, Medicare, Medicaid and VA EFTs, submit commercial claims; answer clinic questions; handle daily claim batching process.
• Work Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance accounts receivable.
• Manage and coordinate the filing and submission of insurance claims for the UofL School of Dentistry clinics including UofL Dental Associates for all insurance companies.
• Oversee Medicaid claims processes from filing to resubmission, keeping within contractual guidelines.
• Discuss benefits with patients and students; maximize benefits for patients by acting as liaison between ULSD and third-party payers; accept and post patient payments.
• Utilize the axiUm software program pertaining to patient data, treatment and financial/insurance related issues.
• Enter financial/demographic data.
• Inform other staff, students and faculty of changes in Current Dental Terminology procedure codes.

Benefits

The University of Louisville has an exceptional benefits package; to learn more about our benefits please visit here.

Pay

Target Compensation Maximum: $29.27
Target Compensation Minimum: $19.51
Compensation Will Be Commensurate To Candidate Experience.

Schedule

N/A

Qualifications

Vocational or other technical, certification training or apprenticeship beyond high school and two years of related bookkeeping, business or cash handling. Additional experience may be used on a one-to-one basis to offset the educational requirements.