Payment Poster Job Description
Payment Poster Duties & Responsibilities
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Payment Poster Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Payment Poster
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Education for Payment Poster
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Employers hiring for the payment poster job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Associates, Education, Accounting, Technical, Medical, Business, Medical Billing, Graduate, General Education, Surgery
Skills for Payment Poster
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Payment Poster Examples
Payment Poster Job Description
- Balances cash daily
- Performs appropriate follow-up with payor for payment as appropriate
- Payment Posting and Matching
- Resolve all payments with missing Explanation of Benefits (EOB)
- Close and update daily payment batches
- Identify accounts that require refunds
- Ensure line items adjustments are performed at time of payment
- Be familiar with HIPAA and PHI guidelines
- 835 electronic payment matching
- Must be trained on the enterprise task manager (ETM) system
- Demonstrates a high degree of accuracy and analytical skills
- Report problems and issues to the Patient Accounts Supervisor and Manager status of workload for the payment posting, zero voucher posting, and refund processing for individual assigned Billing Areas
- Must have 2+ yrs experience in medical cash posting and an understanding of the A/R cycle
- Previous experience with Rehab Toolkit highly preferred
- Team player attitude, energetic, able to multi-task, with a focus on excellent customer service are key
- Must be a self-starter with strong organizational skills
Payment Poster Job Description
- Responsible for processing and posting incoming payments, reconciling receipts and adjusting patient accounts
- Responsible for downloading and posting all incoming patient and insurance payments on a daily basis
- Posts all incoming correspondence
- Research for possible posting errors
- Includes other responsibilities and duties as assigned based upon business needs or requirements
- Lockbox - Must be able to post minimum of 6,300 transactions per month
- Med-Cal - Must be able to post minimum of 8,100 transactions per month
- Medicare and Transplant - Must have a maximum of 4 days lag from the most current batch
- Verify expected reimbursement and adjustment based upon the provided contract list
- Reconcile and correct any basic batch balance inconsistencies with accuracy and speed
- Proficiency and ability to use computer automated accounting system (Advantx)
- Demonstrates accountability, integrity, professionalism, receptive to change, creativity and innovative
- Minimum 2 years of Payment Posting experience
- Cash Applications Specialist must have experience posting insurance and patient payments, cash applications, cash posting for physician and hospital services
- Cash Applications Specialist must have experience applying cash, check, credit card, Explanation of Benefits, EOB, EFT, and lock box payents
- Cash Applications Specialist must have experience managing accounts receivable and accounts payable
Payment Poster Job Description
- Complete all required paperwork accurately and in a timely manner
- Posting of cash, denials, contractuals, and patient due portions correctly and compliantly
- To resolve denials, produce secondary claims, or appeal payment discrepancies
- When required make collection calls and/or correspondence to payors for bulk resolution of delayed payments
- Reconciliation of accounts by processing customer refunds, review account for adjustments, resolve client/payor discrepancies and short payments
- Processing monthly refunds and obtaining appropriate signature
- Reconcile patient/payor accounts
- Advantx procedures
- Responsible for a team of 20 employees
- Responsible for financial clearance for patients
- 3-4 years previous billing experience, with emphasis on surgery claims
- Cash Applications Specialist must have experience performing high volume in person and phone patient customer service in a fast paced environment
- Cash Applications Specialist must have the ability to type 40+WPM required (alphanumeric & 10-key typing)
- Minimum 2 years in medical billing and payment posting
- Knowledge in denial management, eob posting, contracts/fee schedules, daily/monthly bank and posting reconciliation for ambulatory surgery centers a plus
- Minimum 1-2 years’ experience performing follow-up to patient accounts relative to professional fee billing functions
Payment Poster Job Description
- Keeps quality standards for the team
- Creates team schedule
- Gives quarterly and annual reviews on all team members
- Post patient payments to the appropriate line item charge
- Post insurance and patient payments for physician services
- Separate recived payments according to the client and post to their specific accounts
- Work in multiple practice management systems including Allscripts
- The Payment poster will work with a backlog, 80% clean-up project
- High daily volume
- Calculating payments
- Minimum experience includes corresponding with patients and insurance companies in resolving patient accounts
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in the field or in a related area required
- Knowledge related to reading an insurance EOB a plus
- Knowledge of EDI processing and EFT work experience
- Healthcare payment posting experience
- OCR experience
Payment Poster Job Description
- Directly impact a patient’s life by ensuring all payer payments have been appropriately allocation, helping to alleviate the financial burden to patients
- Responsible for payment posting
- May reconcile accounts
- May be responsible for a complete and systematic set of transactions in a specific phase of accounting
- The primary function of this role is researching payments that come in and aren't automatically processed by their system
- Interpret financial responsibility of the patient and insurance based on the EOB attached to the payment
- Researching information in the system to track down missing information
- Process payment based on the information found
- Light phone work, including calling up insurance company to ask questions and get additional information
- Reviews and interprets EOBs (Insurance/Payers Explanation of Benefit) to ensure proper application of
- Minimum of 2 years of insurance payment posting in a medical organization
- A technical and/or systems background
- 3-5 years High Volume Collections experience
- Compliance and payor regulations
- Scan Chart Procedures
- 1+ year of medical billing/medical claims experience