Senior 3rd-Party Payer Poster & Collector for Amb Surg Center

Senior level position to perform payment posting and perform high level third-party payer collections for underpaid claims as Senior Business Office Specialist.
Now in our 6th year of business, Weston Outpatient Surgical Center, a physician-owned, free-standing, multi-specialty ASC, located near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida is growing. The Center is expanding to 5 operating rooms and 3 procedure rooms and needs to add a senior level business office specialist.
This is a multi-faceted opportunity for an experienced, passionate person with at least 5 years of similar experience in orthopedic surgical practices, hospital same day surgery and/or licensed multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers that perform a large volume of the more complicated orthopedic, podiatry and pain management cases.
The Center prides itself in providing an excellent work environment including:
Daily company provided lunch Excellent Compensation, and
Company paid benefits
This is a "hands on" senior level salaried position for an expert with multi-specialty same day or orthopedic physician surgery line-item payment postings and collections from third-party payers due essentially to contract interpretation and coding issues. Our Center has contracts with all major third-parties, with very heavy in Managed Care, Workers' Compensation and Attorney cases.(Medicare is a very small percentage of Center's business).
THIS IS A "HAND-ON" POSITION FOR SOMEONE PASSIONATE ABOUT ACTUALLY PERFORMING THE JOB DUTIES LISTED BELOW, IN ADDITION TO SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SELF-PAY COLLECTORS:Job duties are to:Review all incoming payments and post same to patient accounts on a procedure by procedure, line-item basis, with appropriate "transaction/journal codes"Identify underpayments received by CPT code and enter same into patient account "comments."Contact third-party payers to assure receipt of initial claims submitted and obtain additional reimbursements due from payers who deny and/or under-pay the surgery center for services rendered, coded and billed in accordance with many, many managed care contracts, to include Revenue Code 278 and 279 CPT codes billed with 99070Generate and submit follow-up claims (with all required supporting documentation such as operative reports and invoices) and/or electronic submissions to the 3rd party payers, with daily review of all relevant electronic clearing house-produced error/rejection reports and correction of such errors/rejections and subsequent resubmissions (as needed)Supervise internal self-pay collection unit of up to 5 part-timers who will work from 6PM to 9PM weekdays, 9:30AM to 6PM Saturdays, and 12Noon to 8:30PM Sundays, to include recuitment, training, evelopment and maintenance of staffing schedules, and monitoring of collection performances./
REQUIREMENTS



Requirements:Minimum of 5 to 10 years of senior level "HANDS-ON" AND MANAGEMENT experience with PAYMENT POSTING,3RD PARTY AND SELFPAY COLLECTIONS,and BILLING at active hospital same day surgery departments, multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers, and/or VERY active multi-physician orthopedic practicesCoding Certification a plus
Excellent math skills essential!Position requires total attention to detail, and a passion to "WORK ACCOUNTS" while working on a independent basisFlexible work hours required!For immediate consideration, please fax resume (in complete confidence), with detailed work history and compensation, and current compensation requirements to: (954) 385-9542, or via E-mail to [Click here for email]
See the Center's web site: www.westonoutpatient.comNo Phone calls or unscheduled interviews please