Patient Financial Services Clerk

• Patient Financial Services Clerk, Days, Janesville, 8 Hrs / 2 wks
• Location: MercyCare Building; Janevsille, WI

Works to assist and provide clerical support to the patient account workflows.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with billing functions to identify correspondence and refer to appropriate partner for follow-up.
• Support remote staff with printing and mailing correspondence
• Sort and organize requested insurance refunds. Match refund with supporting documentation and mail.
• Sort and organize insurance checks to assist Cash Posting with daily bank deposit
• Find and list invoice numbers for remittances lacking specific posting detail
• Print and mail Matrix SNF Patient Statements
• Index and assign all correspondence received from (Lockbox, Customer Service, Cashiers, etc.) to the appropriate staff work queues.
• Review and complete requests for itemized bills, copies of claim forms and medical record documents.
• Responsible to pull patient account documentation as needed for internal and external audit requests.
• Pick-up, sort, index and deliver all USPS and inter-office mail
• File, fax, and/or copy documents as needed.
• Front desk coverage for breaks and lunches (MCB only)
• Conduct monthly quality checks of scanned documents to ensure accuracy before documents are destroyed.
• Maintain productivity standards as outlined in the Revenue Cycle Department.
• Works on special projects as assigned.

Education and Experience

High school diploma or equivalent required. Minimum of 6 months of office experience required.

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

* Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.

* Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.

* Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.

* Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.

* Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.

* Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.