Dental Billing Specialist (GP)
Job Description
We are looking for a team member with a minimum of three years of Medical and Dental billing experience to join our team. This person will be a full-time, goal-oriented, revenue-driven, highly accurate and motivated Biller. Primary duties include, but are not limited to: Assure proper and accurate insurance claim submission and consistently follow up on unpaid claims utilizing monthly aging reports, filing appeals when appropriate to obtain maximum reimbursement, assure payment posting on time and accuracy on patient’s ledgers. Secondary duties include but are not limited to: Auditing random patients account to ensure accuracy on claim data, payments and proper insurances approval, provide daily, weekly and monthly feedback to the billing team, assure all new providers are properly credentialed in the fastest timing possible, assure all providers are recredential on time to avoid losing any insurance credentialing, run end of week and month reports to assure all production was properly billed and paid by insurances.
Required Skills:
- GP Billing/Coding first hand experience
- Ortho Billing/Coding first hand experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in credentialing
- Medicaid Billing Experience
- Ability to multitask and work courteously and respectfully with fellow employees, clients and patients.
Detailed Work Activities:
- Ensure all claims are submitted with a goal of zero errors.
- Verifies completeness and accuracy of all claims prior to submission
- Timely follow up on insurance claim denials, exceptions or exclusions
- Meet deadlines.
- Reading and interpreting insurance explanations of benefits.
- Utilize monthly aging accounts receivable reports to follow up on unpaid claims aged over 30 days.
- Make necessary arrangements for medical records requests, completion of additional information requests, etc. as requested by insurance companies.
- Respond to inquiries from insurance companies, patients and providers.
- Regularly meet with Superiors to discuss and resolve reimbursement issues or billing obstacles.
- Regularly attend monthly staff meetings and continuing educational sessions as requested.
- Perform additional duties as requested by the Management team.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.00 - $26.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- New York, NY 10040: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- General Dentistry Billing/Coding: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: One location