Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Koya Medical, Inc. is a transformative healthcare company developing breakthrough treatments for venous diseases and lymphedema. They are looking for a Patient Financial Services Representative to provide excellent support to patients regarding their insurance and billing inquiries, ensuring a smooth patient journey.
Responsibilities
- Provide insurance and billing related support to customers by phone, text, or email (approximately 80%)
- Complete outgoing Medicare Reinspection calls (approximately 10%)
- Complete Patient Financial Outreach in the case of coverage denial (approximately 10%)
- Educate patients regarding flexible payment options when appropriate
- Take incoming calls from patients to assist with resolving their insurance or billing inquiries and balance payments
- Follow – and continuously improve – standard procedures
- Build a knowledge base of troubleshooting resolutions
- Work on special projects as needed
- Identify process improvement opportunities and participate in improvement plans
- Maintain working knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance plans, including coverage requirements, billing processes, and reimbursement guidelines
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in medical billing, including both inbound and outbound calling
- 2+ years of Customer Service experience
- Associates degree or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions as outlined above
- Knowledge and interpretation of insurance, and medical billing processes and documents – including commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate in both written and verbal form
- Self-driven with the ability to work independently and accurately
- Excellent communication and customer service skills, including de-escalation tactics
- Perform common customer service transactions, interactions, and activities. Log all customer/patient interactions
- Ensure compliance with all departmental policies and procedures; adhere to all required health care regulations, security, compliance, and HIPAA policies
- Ability to handle difficult patient interactions in a professional and timely manner; facilitate the resolution of customer issues by following the escalation process when necessary
- Organization Skills, Continuous Improvement, Problem Solving, Personal Effectiveness, Decision Making, Foster Teamwork, Ethical Conduct, Detail Oriented. Personal Initiative, Time Management, Active Listener
- Computer proficiencies, including Microsoft office and Salesforce preferred
Benefits
- Base + bonus compensation package
- Competitive benefits program
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