Descripción y detalle de las actividades
Patient Care Service (PCS) Representatives seek benefit coverage for patients from insurance groups with the responsibility of timely and compliant order entry, benefit verification and prompt follow up. This position works collaboratively with cross-functional internal and external teams to obtain necessary documentation required to obtain insurance authorizations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Answers inbound and outbound calls, research, and identifies insurance to ensure compliant/proper account resolution.
• Verifies insurance eligibility and follows coordination of benefits guidelines.
• Faxes accurate and thorough Pre-Authorization Request Letters.
• Determines revenue amounts based on allowable, benefits, unit price, payer guidelines, copayment and contract pricing.
• Submits appropriate and accurate billing to Government entities and private insurance payers consistent with Federal, State and insurance specific requirements.
• Pursues supporting documentation from Sales Team to ensure all required documents are received prior to invoicing.
• Reviews prescriptions, Letters of Medical Necessity and/or Chart Notes to ensure both completeness and accuracy.
• Ensures that orders meet criteria and compliance standards, and resolves assigned denials and variances by accurately determining the root cause and collaborating to reduce the denial or variance.
• Works to resolve submission issues which can include obtaining the appropriate Medical Record documentation or validation of coding.
• Reviews orders for accuracy and completeness prior to providing the “OK to Place” and invoicing.
• Processes assigned correspondence and telephone inquiries from patients and payers in a compliant manner and promptly responds in writing or verbally.
• Appropriately challenges insurance companies by communicating information on Medical Necessity and negotiating coverage and pricing for the purchase of our products that meet all applicable payor guidelines.
• Serves as back-up for other PCS Representatives and their assigned region(s), as needed.
Experiencia y requisitos
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with compliant patient billing, customer service, claims processing or related experience in a health care environment required.
• Knowledge of ICD-10 coding, medical terminology, third party billing and collections, and managed care requirements required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications required.
• Strong attention to detail and passion for patient care and doing the right thing when decisions need to be made.
• Must have full understanding of customer service and compliant insurance follow-up processes (i.e., Billing, Collections, Managed Care, Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial payor practices).
• Experience responding to patient and insurance inquiries preferred.
• Experience using DataWorks, TIMS, or similar case management software strongly preferred.