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Medical Billing Specialist
$20.00-$23.00 per hour (DOE)
Temp to Hire; Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:30pm
Columbus, Ohio (onsite)
What you’ll be doing:
- Serves as the Medical Billing Specialist for the Dental Faculty Practice with the College of Dentistry
- Performs insurance predetermination of benefits, validates insurance coverage and preauthorizations
- Discuss treatment plans and payment arrangements with patients
- Primarily enters medical coding
- Bills medical/dental carriers, appeals claims, and collection functions
- Serves as liaison between doctors, patients, and payers
- This position will be responsible for a group providers' A/R including timely filing, appealing accounts, and processing accounts according to the department policy
- Assist in coverage of the check-in desk from assisting with answering more complex questions to coverage during vacancies
Who we’re looking for:
- Professional Medical Billing (not in a hospital setting) is REQUIRED
- Minimum 6 months experience in a healthcare cash-posting environment
- Proficiency with computers and related software
- Efficiency with 10 key calculators
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Highly desired 3-5 years experience in a medical office working with a variety of medical specialties
- Ability to deal with problems involving insurance
- Strong customer service skills
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a variety of providers
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