Patient Accounting Manager - Billing Office

Baptist Health is the largest healthcare system serving central Alabama, providing comprehensive hospital-based and outpatient services to nearly 60 percent of the residents in Montgomery, Autauga and Elmore counties.

The Patient Accounting Manager is responsible for managing, investigating, and resolving accounts in the Baptist Health Accounts Receivables. This involves supervising Assistant Managers, Supervisors, and Billing & Follow-up Collection representatives, developing unit goals, preparing monthly reports, and identifying unit training needs on an on-going basis.

Highlights

Summary
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The Patient Accounting Manager possesses requisite technical abilities to provide leadership and direction in developing and maintaining systems, processes and work flows with regards to Billing and Follow-up Collections, and works closely with Revenue and Clinical Operations along with Compliance in its efforts to interpret and incorporate regulatory billing changes into the clinical and financial work flows through providing a global view of all clinical and financial processes, functions and interdependencies.

• Education / Experience
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  Bachelor's degree required. At least 5 years relevant hospital experience in UB04 and 1500 claim form billing and collections for all payer types. Minimum 5 years electronic billing experience & supervisory experience required.
• License / Certification
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  None
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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  Excellent communication skills, excellent PC skills required specifically with Windows based desktop applications, proven ability to get the job done, past performance reflects that ability, proven capability to understand and grasp knowledge of processes and determine methods to improve, when necessary, total acceptance and belief in the Baptist Health mission and values, positive attitude about self, others and Baptist Health, ability to travel from one Baptist facility to another and/or within any facility in a timely manner, whether travel is planned or not is required.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements
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Position requires sitting for 60% of the workday and mobility 40% of the workday. There is occasional stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching. There is frequent reaching, use of hands and repetitive action. Requires occasional lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds, pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds. There is a continuous need for speaking with clear diction and hearing sensitivity in conversation either by phone or in person.

Continuous visual acuity at close and distant range.

Baptist Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.