Job Description

The Physician Billing Coordinator II performs all duties related to registration and the gathering of insurance and eligibility information.

• Edits in Epic the charge encounters when needed to ensure accuracy of information for accurate billing.
• Evaluates accounts to determine any write-offs or corrections required, including duplicate charges.
• Verifies all insurance according to defined parameters.
• Ensures that appropriate documentation has been received prior to patient?s appointment date.
• Appropriately communicates with patient to determine financial status.
• Discusses options with patient if insurance eligibility is not confirmed prior to appointment date.
• Follows policies and procedures in looking for third party sponsorship.
• Enters complete and appropriate documentation in IDX notes.
• Follows all applicable rules and policies, such as the discount policy and Medi-Cal and charity applications.
• Register accounts timely and accurately.
• Ensures that registration occurs prior to patient encounter.
• Ensures that all information is complete, and required fields entered.
• Reviews patient?s account to understand current financial status and balance
• Communicates appropriately and professionally to patients.
• Receives monies owed from patient.
• Reconciles cash receipts to cash log.
• Meets existing efficiency goals.
• Elevates issues, as appropriate, to the Supervisor.
• Participates in the development of unit policies and procedures.
• Handles in a professional and confidential manner all correspondence, documentation, and files.
• Supports CSMNS core values, policies, and procedures.
• Meets weekly with Supervisor.
• Works with other PBCs and front office staff to resolve specific issues impacting unit and develop resolution plans.
• Answers telephones, patient inquiries, and responds appropriately and timely to written correspondence.

Qualifications

Education:

High school diploma/GED preferred.

Experience:

Two (2) years experience in a surgical office setting preferred.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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