Payment Specialist

at GraceMed Health Clinic in Wichita, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Practicing at GraceMed

If you are a healthcare professional, we appreciate your interest in practicing in a community health setting at GraceMed. This is a clinical environment where you can be a part of a diverse team of professionals who come together to address the whole health of the patient. You’ll make a difference you can see every day as you care for patients who are often high-risk because of their underserved status. You’ll be fully supported by a staff and organization set up to let you focus on delivering care. And you’ll be part of a team that has distinguished itself for its quality of care and outcomes.

Reporting Relationship: Reports to the Revenue Cycle Manager

Supervision Responsibilities: No

Essential Role: This position performs critical financial analysis of patient accounts, records and posts cash and credit payments for clinic patients, reconciles daily cash, verifies insurance coverage and determines eligibility for the Sliding Fee Discount program.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Interacts with patients regarding financial status of account, including understanding of patient account history.
• Verifies patient insurance coverage
• Determine and collect deposit payments, insurance co-pay, lab, clinic charges, and bad debt payments as appropriate from patients.
• Processes cash and credit/debit cards payments received and posts payments to appropriate charges.
• Process same day refunds and refunds to credit card as approved by CFO.
• Reconciles all cash, checks and credits card charges daily.
• Prepares daily deposit transmittal.
• Determines eligibility for Sliding Fee Discount and processes appropriate documentation to support eligibility.
• Documents patient account information in computer system.
• Interfaces with corporate finance/billing or financial consultants as requested.
• Maintains patient and corporate confidentiality at all times.
• Performs other appropriate duties as requested by supervisors.

Working Conditions:

Administrative office environment.  Ability to sit for long periods of time. Bending, stooping, and lifting (up to 50lbs.) may be required. Ability to read computer screens for extended periods of time. Interaction with physicians, patients and other office personnel.  Must have visual acuity and manual dexterity to interface with computer.  Must have auditory acuity to handle phone calls.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.  They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

This job description has been examined for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (May 1995).

GraceMed Health Clinic is an equal opportunity organization and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or for any other discriminatory reason prohibited by applicable law.