Hosp Care Investigator provisional

3 weeks ago


New York, United States NYC Health + Hospitals Full time

**About NYC Health + Hospitals**:
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 500,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue’s clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Under direct supervision, conducts investigations in a health care setting to determine the eligibility of applicants for medical assistance payment programs or the ability of patients and their legally responsible relatives to pay for hospital or health care charges and takes the necessary actions to bill and collect for these services; explores alternative sources for payment for health care setting services rendered; codes, verifies and modifies demographic and insurance data obtained from source documents and enters such data into a computerized system; performs billings and collections functions in order to obtain maximization of health care setting’s revenue; all personnel perform related work.

Examples of Typical Tasks:
1. Informs patient of health care setting rates; performs in-depth interviews with patients, families, relatives and friends in an office setting or the health care setting, during field investigations, and/or by telephone to determine patients’ and/or legally responsible relatives’ ability to pay for services rendered.
2. Contacts outside agencies, organizations, insurance carriers and employers to obtain necessary information about potential sources of revenue.
3. Acts as a liaison with social services and home care agencies.
4. Refers patients to various health care setting departments and outside agencies, such as Medicaid, New York State Unemployment Insurance, Social Security and Public Assistance for possible benefits.
6. Reviews and abstracts Medical charts to obtain pertinent information for accurately coding and completing third
- party billing forms, indicating treatment given, discharge diagnoses and overall patient information for computerization purposes.
7. Reviews patient account records to ensure patients are properly billed; verifies and corrects patient bills and codes information for computerized system.
8. Verifies accuracy of patient information stored in computer and codes changes and modifications, as necessary.
9. Responds to complex inquiries from patients and third-party payers and resolves disputes concerning bills submitted for payment.
10. Follows-up on collections to ensure maximization of revenue.

**Minimum Qualifications**:
1. A Baccalaureate Degree from an accredited college or university; or
2. An Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university; and completion of a certificate program in medical
billing; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent; and completion of a certificate program in medical
billing; and two (2) years of full-time experience in interviewing, investigation, or a related field, such as credit and
collection follow-up or bookkeeping, or as a customer service representative providing comprehensive customer
service entailing the dispensing of information or listening to and resolving customer’s concerns, problems and
complaints or troubleshooting; or
4. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent; and four (4) years of full-time experience, as
described in #3 above; or
5. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to (1), (2), (3) or (4) above. College education may be substituted
for experience on the basis that thirty (30) semester credits are equivalent to one (1) year of experience. However,

**How To Apply**:
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

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