Patient Account Clerk (Primary Responsibility to Business Office) – 40 hours/week

About the role

The Patient Account Clerk performs the duties of Accounting Clerk, Posting Clerk, and Financial Clerk as assigned by the Business Office Manager. The Patient Account Clerk may also be assigned to perform certain duties usually performed by the Admitting Clerk, Collections Clerk and Medical Records Clerk on occasion.

Reports To

Revenue Cycle Manager

Responsibilities

• Prepares and inputs data required for billing.
• Follows procedure F-61, Daily Billing Office Procedures.
• Maintains aged trial balances for patient accounts at acceptable levels of less than 10% consistently for accounts older than 120 days.
• Prepares and submits clean claims daily to various insurance companies electronically via hospital computer and or third party software or by paper if necessary.
• Works claims with missing information report, keeping it consistently below 100 accounts.