Job Description

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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These are the values that define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a

Coding Reimbursement Specialist

to our Intensive OP Program. If you have a background in this field, we want to hear from you.
At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing complex tasks in the coding/billing of services provided to patients and the research and reconciliation of bills. This position will work within the Intensive OP program/Adult Outpatient Clinics and 10 Talcott Notch Psychiatry Clinic located in Farmington, CT.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under the limited supervision of an employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May lead/supervise lower-level employees.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Performs diversified, highly technical coding of medical records for reimbursement

Researches, establishes, and implements billing procedures

Makes recommendations on billing policies or standards

Acts as liaison/resource to operating units, agencies, and third-party payors in an effort to maximize reimbursement

Researches/resolves denied and underpaid claims

Interprets complex insurance company policies

Reconciles/resolves patient accounts

Compiles/analyzes statistics

Assists and monitors provider enrollment

Ensures accurate and timely billing of services

Maintains records and files

May input charges and adjustments

Performs related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Knowledge of complex, highly technical medical coding principles and techniques

Considerable knowledge of ICD-9 & ICD-10 and CPT 4 code books

Knowledge of billing and insurance carrier reimbursement policies

Knowledge of medical terminology

Considerable interpersonal skills

Oral and written communication skills

Organizational skills

Ability to use a computer.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

Four (4) years of medical billing experience in a physician's office or hospital billing/insurance setting.

SUBSTITUTION ALLOWED:

Associate's degree in a business-related field and two (2) years of medical billing experience

may substitute for the general experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Certified Professional Coder (CPC), or Certified Coder Specialist-Physician Based (CCS-P) certification.

Experience with EPIC EHR and psychiatric billing and coding

SCHEDULE:

Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, 30-minute unpaid meal break.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.