Senior Payments Processing Specialist

Are you interested in working with an authentic team who care about their clients and employees? PBS is committed to excellence in revenue cycle, practice improvement, and service to physician practices. We are looking for experienced, talented individuals who value integrity, innovation and teamwork.

We are looking for an individual who loves working with numbers, is goal-driven, diligent, likes to train others, and works well in a team. We offer a flexible, remote work environment, medical, dental, and vision benefits, paid holidays, and 401k.

If this is you and what you are looking for in a job, read on.

The Senior Payments Processing Specialist is responsible for training payment team members including offshore teams, answering clarification spreadsheet questions, audits, and monitoring reports daily including Quick Check to ensure payment posting numbers align with established goals and reporting any deficiencies to their direct supervisor or manager. As a Senior Payments Processing Specialist, you will play a crucial role in ensuring accurate and timely recording of payments received from patients, insurance companies, and other third-party payers. You will work closely with our billing and collections team to maintain financial records and reconcile accounts efficiently.

Essential Functions/Primary Job Duties

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential job functions are the fundamental duties of a position: the things a person holding the job absolutely must be able to do with or without reasonable accommodation. Essential job functions are used to determine the rights of an employee with a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

This is a sedentary role, sitting and/or standing and working at a computer for a minimum of eight (8) hours per day as a full-time employee.

• Strong understanding and experience with 835 cash files
• Worked with Payor Portal for searching for remits
• Apply electronic and manual payments daily to maintain current A/R balances.
• Participate in the preparation and completion of monthly A/R close functions in adherence with company timelines.
• Post payments into cash reports
• Provide Monthly Billing and/or Follow-up on all Medicaid and Hospice outstanding balances.

Competencies

• Strong knowledge of the payment posting process within the revenue cycle.
• The ability to review and understand percentage calculations, dashboards and analytic reports is key to this role.
• Motivation and initiative to solve problems independently.
• Decision Making/Critical Thinking to identify issues, seek advice, and escalate appropriately.
• Interpersonal Skills that support working with internal and external teams in a positive manner.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work with others in a business environment, communicating effectively and professionally, both orally and in writing, in English.

Work Environment

This job works in a home office environment using the standard office equipment of a computer and phone. Employees are required to show proof of home or renters' insurance when working remotely.

Travel

No travel is expected for this position.

Job Type: Full-time

Required Education and Experience

• High school education or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years revenue cycle experience, including payments posting experience with a keen understanding of the payment posting process.
• Excel proficiency, including calculating, filtering, sorting, and creating spreadsheets.
• Computer software programs
• Familiar in working with medical billing software.
• Experience in Microsoft 365 for Business
• Ability to type and calculate accurately.