Job Description

The Physician Billing Coordinator III performs all duties related to registration and the gathering of insurance and eligibility information.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for acquiring imaging, procedure, HMO, and outside services to authorizations, processing hospital and lab charges. Review code imaging charges. Preparing Prompt Pay for cash pay patients.
• Completes all charge tickets and turns into PBS on a timely basis. Ensures that all required information is attached to every charge ticket. Appropriately batches all charge tickets
• Evaluates accounts to determine any write-offs or corrections required, including duplicate charges.
• Verifies all insurance according to defined parameters.
• Follows policies and procedures in looking for third party sponsorship. Participates in the development of unit policies and procedures.
• Follows all applicable rules and policies, such as the discount policy and Medi-Cal and charity applications.
• Communicates appropriately and professionally to patients.
• Works with other PBCs and front office staff to resolve specific issues impacting unit and develop resolution plans. Meets existing efficiency goals. Elevates issues, as appropriate, to the Supervisor. Handles in a professional and confidential manner all correspondence, documentation and files.
• Answers telephones, patient inquiries, and responds appropriately and timely to written correspondence.
• This position is responsible for acquiring treatment authorizations, processing hospital and lab charges. Review code imaging charges. Preparing Prompt Pay for cash pay patients.

Qualifications

Education:

High school diploma preferred. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.

License/Certifications:

Certified Professional Coder (CPC) highly preferred.

Experience:

Three (3) years of experience in a surgical office setting.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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