Lead Cash Poster

General Description:

Under the direct supervision of the Billing Supervisor, performs a variety of duties related to patient accounts, including but not limited to: applying manual and electronic payments, co-payments and deductions to patient accounts; distributing EOB’s to patient representatives; entering payments to the General Ledger; training new cash posters; completing various reconciliations and reports as needed; analyzing patient account discrepancies, unapplied cash balances, Medicare/Medicaid take backs, insurance forwarding balances and write offs; resolving account discrepancies; and setting up new insurance in system as they appear in deposits. This position requires high degree of accuracy to prevent errors in patient statements and rework by the billing office team. The position shall exemplify the desired Culture of Choice and philosophies of Parrish Healthcare.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process all payments in B/AR received from patients and insurance carriers using payer specific codes through lock box, mail deposit, 835 electronic remits, Instamed and Web payments including posting of copay's, deductibles and patient responsibility.
• Post all NSF’s, adjustments, denials and credits accurately.
• Prepares and provides GL batches to Finance for posting.
• Verifies accurate posting within a 99% accuracy ratio.
• Daily print Zero Pay EOB’s and all electronic (835) EOB’s, then scan and save in appropriate document folder.
• Analyze all patient account discrepancies, unapplied cash balances, Medicare/Medicaid take backs, insurance forwarding balances and write offs.
• Run Regions 835 Lock box and print daily correspondence and process appropriately
• Prepares, calculates and balances to the Daily Reconciliation Cash Sheet.
• Record all daily outside office deposits on daily cash reconciliation spreadsheet.
• Works with finance on reconciliation of client accounts.
• Reconcile all unapplied cash by the last day of each month.
• Prints the daily Zero Pay EOB’s and Payment electronic EOB’s from appropriate payer websites for posting.
• Work with Billing Office to resolve account discrepancies and setup new insurance in system as they appear in deposits.
• Check MedAssets at 4pm daily for any files that may have come late
• Assist Finance department with bank reconciliation differences, audit requests, unclaimed funds report to State, and other items as requested.
• Train employees on Meditech system, cash posting procedures, and all associated insurance/EOB web sites.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• 1 to <2 years