RCM Manager

Job Description Summary: Manages a RCM team who are responsible for all related medical billing activity for the purpose of maximizing accounts receivable collections for clients. In addition to performing similar work, the Manager will oversee and ensure group productivity and performance in accordance with financial goals to ensure the health of the client's Accounts Receivable  Supports RCM Management by efficiently and effectively providing oversight and review of the team, processes and workload Job Decription: Responsible for staff productivity for follow-up of all unpaid, denied, and underpaid and overpaid claims. This includes but is not limited to: contacting insurance companies for claim status, reviewing all insurance claims and patient documentation, reviewing and ensuring appropriate coding, handling correspondence, and making appropriate decisions for follow-up action. Must be effective at handling several accounts simultaneously and ensuring maximum accounts receivables and expedient collection turnaround for clients. Meets with Client representatives to review billing progress, status of a accounts and review and resolve any issues presented by clients. Ensures that staff and/or vendor, as applicable enters all charges into the medical billing system accurately and correctly for reimbursement. This includes but is not limited to: ensuring correct CPT codes, modifiers, and ICD codes, authorizations for services, patient demographics, and health insurance data. Responsible for staff who enters all patient, insurance, and third party payments into the medical billing system. This includes a thorough knowledge and understanding of medical EOB’s, patient deductibles and co pays, and insurance or third party correspondence, contractual payments and adjustments. Interact with clients and their patients, engage in proactive resolution of issues and timely response to questions and concerns. Strong customer service skills for client satisfaction, health of client AR and management of RCM team members o answering client inquiries; prompt return and follow up to all interactions; prompt response to requests for information, both internally and externally o acts as primary point of contact for team members and provides guidance on work matters Deliver timely required reports to the RCM Management; initiates and communicates the resolution of issues Meet regularly with staff; in-person and as a group to confirm the status of client accounts and build/sustain staff engagement to drive business results and improvements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Extensive knowledge with email, search engines, Internet Abitlity to effectively use payer websites and LaserFiche Intermediate practical knowledge and use of Microsoft products; Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint Preferred experience with MS Access, Crystal reports General knowledge of and the ability to learn/regularly use various billing systems, EMR’s and interfaces Previous experience with various billing systems, such as Next Gen, Pro, Allscripts, Epic and others Accounting skills preferred Knowledge of CPT, ICD10 and modifiers. Experience in specialties such as Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, General Surgery Familiar with HMO and IPAs, Medicare Fee for Service Plans and Commercial Payers Strong communication skills Working Arrangements Standard work week or as defined by assignment requirements Primarily works in standard office environment or remotely May require after-hours, on-call support and/or holidays On-call and after hours work during peak times including end of month/quarter/year; during this time PTO is limited to meet business needs Track clients’ AR productivity and health (charge, payments, collections, adjustments) on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis; as needed to ensure the client and company expectations are met Remain current with company’s policies and procedures regarding AR activity such as, reviewing month en ... (truncated, view full listing at source)