Patient Accounts Receivable Representative I
University of Maryland Medical System

Job Description
Key Responsibilities

• Works and maintains assigned receivables through work queues, age trail balance reports (ATB's), and special projects to achieve established department goals through resolution of outstanding account balances and reduction of uncompensated care.
• Works with third party insurances to obtain maximum level of cash to reduce receivable.
• Reviews financial references, including guidelines for reimbursement, state and federal regulations, payer-specific reimbursement policies, procedures.
• Ensures correct processing of outstanding insurance claims by: interpreting insurance payer responses, requesting account level adjustments, submitting appeals and claims reconsiderations, evaluating financial responsibility of patients, resolving insurance denials and claim rejections, performing insurance verification.

Company Description
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED)
• 1 year work experience in general collections, accounts receivable oversight or customer service

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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