Revenue Cycle Specialist I - Commercial Collections
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 24-Apr-26
Location: Los Angeles, California
Internal Number: 16793
Job Description
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!
At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. Join us and make a difference every single day in service of this important work. We provide an outstanding benefit package that includes healthcare, paid time off and a 403(b). Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals!
What will you be doing in this role?
Under general supervision and following established practices, policies, and guidelines, provides billing support to Patient Financial Services, performing duties which include reviewing and submitting claims to third party payors, performing account follow-up activities, updating information on account, etc.. Positions at this level require a basic knowledge of assigned area, and general understanding of department functions and the revenue cycle. Incumbents are expected to organize, prioritize and perform work in a timely manner within established guidelines, practices and procedures. This position may be cross-trained in other office functions and provide back-up coverage:
Participates in department meetings and provides feedback to management on how to improve department processes. Adheres to instructions, verbal and written, to achieve desired results.
Adheres to documentation standards of the department and properly uses activity codes. Correctly enters data in fields. Maintains acceptable levels of speed and accuracy.
Effectively monitors assigned work queues and workload, ensuring resolve of accounts in a timely and accurate manner. Takes initiative on issues and/or problems by advancing them to supervisor.
Adheres to documentation standards of the department.
Processes incoming correspondence, based on reason code, timely and accurately.
Ensures information on the account is complete and accurate. Adheres to payment timeline protocol.
Adheres to payment timeline protocol and assists other team members with resolution of accounts when needed.
Demonstrates detailed knowledge of Cedars-Sinai core patient accounting systems and/or department specific systems and uses them effectively and efficiently.
Qualifications
Requirements:
High school graduate or GED required. Associate degree or college diploma preferred.
A minimum of 1 years of hospital or professional billing and/or collections experience required.
Experience with MS office, Web/Vs, Availity, and CS-Link preferred.
Experience with Commercial payers including: Aetna, Blue Cross, Blue Shiels, Unit Care processes and regulations highly preferred.
Solid understanding of regulatory and CSHS policies and procedures. Basic understanding of HIPAA and other privacy information guidelines.
Ability to perform business math.
Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced and high-volume environment with conflicting demands on time and attention and organize work to complete assignments in a timely, accurate manner.
Professional and courteous demeanor.
Why work here?
Beyond outstanding employee benefits including health and dental insurance, vacation, and a 403(b) we take pride in hiring the best employees. Our accomplished staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation.
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.
