Payment Posting Job Description
Payment Posting Duties & Responsibilities
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Payment Posting Qualifications
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Education for Payment Posting
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the payment posting job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and High School Degree in Education, Accounting, Business/Administration, Medical, Health Care, Healthcare, Health Insurance, Technical, Counseling, General Education
Skills for Payment Posting
Desired skills for payment posting include:
Desired experience for payment posting includes:
Payment Posting Examples
Payment Posting Job Description
- Trend errors and provide data to appropriate Manager
- Notify Manager if BatchNet has not been updated
- Supervise daily task of Payment team
- Review staffing levels and staff schedules
- Oversee the training of new employees and/or a new Center
- PTO coverage
- Cross training with Billing and Collection Departments
- Communicate with Manager, BOC, and Admin
- Assist staff with questions or concerns
- Assist with monthly and quarterly credit balance reports
- Ability to work effectively with staff, physicians and external customers
- Extensive familiarity with reimbursement policy(s) for in and out of network benefits levels, applicable deductible and co-insurance benefits
- Strong PC skills that include familiarity with Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Office Products (including Word and Excel) Internet Explorer and web-based applications
- Knowledge of Managed Care products such as HMO,PPO,POS
- Process payments and credit balances for one assigned facility
- Work with Manager to review facilities DSO and ensure each facility is within goal
Payment Posting Job Description
- Provides introductory and ongoing training and education to Cash Posting Analyst
- Trend errors and provide data to appropriate Manager/Controller
- Performs daily cashiering functions as described in cashiering staff job description
- Meets with the Manager/Controller regularly to effectively communicate and resolve cash posting issues, set and prioritize goals and improve processes
- Serve as a resource to Cash Posting Analyst
- Assure daily posting of all payments and adjustments
- Assure proper cash posting and balancing to batch totals, deposits and day end totals
- Supervise research and correction of other cash posting transactions as needed
- Assist manager with development and implementation of project and department action plans
- Perform quality reviews as required by Parallon/SSC policy
- Knowledge of CPT, ICD-9 or medical terminology preferred
- Work as a liaison between team members and SSC staff
- Provides complete and accurate review of all federally funded requisitions
- Processes and sorts client information
- Processes correspondence, obtains and maintains system adjustment control
- Filing and requisition control
Payment Posting Job Description
- Obtain signed RCM departmental forms any required by any state agencies and or third parties payors from patients, as needed
- Handles patient billing overflow of calls
- Identifies and processes ICD9 and LMRP coding regulations
- Efficiently post payments from the more challenging insurance companies
- Work on special projects assigned by management
- Assist in fellow teammates absence
- Identify negative system behavior
- Communicate with team lead, supervisor and department manager
- Post Blue Shield/Blue Choice Electronic Files
- Post Medicare Electronic Files
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Three plus (3+) years’ experience in a management role, or five plus (5+) years’ experience in a supervisor-level role with oversight of billing and collections operations in a large, multi-specialty group practice
- Experience in setting performance expectations, performance evaluation and correction
- Detailed knowledge of healthcare, cash handling operations and reconciliation (auditing)
- Extensive background in receivables management
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Visio
Payment Posting Job Description
- Post Self-Pay Electronic Files
- Post MVP Electronic Files
- Post WNY Electronic Files
- Post Third Party Commercial Insurance /Patient Endorsed Payments
- Reverse charged off accounts and Post Payments from Mercantile Adjustment Bureau, Rochester Credit Bureau, CBCS and IC Systems, the collection agencies representing the URMFG Self-Pay accounts
- Posting of mail-in payments (checks, money orders, bankruptcy, and CCCS payments)
- Processing direct checks
- Posting and distribution of overnight payments
- Perform initial research for payments without a readily identifiable account number attached
- Complete User Daily Balancing Sheet
- Ability to present information in a clear manner
- Ability to communicate across the enterprise with physician/nursing peers, hospital management, and third party reviewers
- Innovate approach and solution oriented work ethic
- Management experience overseeing payment posting, credit reconciliation and underpayment recovery functions
- Master's Degree in Finance or Accounting or a related field
- Ability to read and understand insurance EOBs
Payment Posting Job Description
- Prepares lockboxes daily, by posting payments and rejections to accounts on the IDX billing system
- Photocopies EOB’s to alert billing staff to payment problems, or need of additional processing
- Posts Time of Service, credit card deposits, and journal vouchers to the IDX system
- Interacts with clinic and billing office staff
- Verifies accuracy of refund checks and posts refund debit to the IDX system
- Obtains documentation, organizes, prepares and posts negative remittances from third party payers continuing to track until resolved
- Reconciles source document totals to IDX daily
- Reviews credit balances on the IDX system and escalates appropriately
- Initiates paperwork and requests back-up documentation for overpayments, misdirected and incorrect payments
- Researches and resolves “suspense postings", by contacting third party payers, JHH and other entities, by phone and in writing, to determine the correct destination for payments
- Experience in Electronic Remittance Advice and lockbox posting
- Familiar with major insurance payers and general behavior
- Experience in Sage Intergy and Medical Manager PM systems
- Effective research and observation skills
- Identify and present discrepancies and/or suggestions in payment posting job flow
- Prioritize daily tasks and projects