Audiology assistant vs billing assistant

Differences between audiology assistant and billing assistant duties and responsibilities

Audiology assistant example responsibilities.

• Facilitate client relationships and manage surgery schedules, financial consultations, follow up care and ongoing maintenance.
• Maintain and update patient in EMR.
• Conduct outpatient follow-up appointments using diagnostic click and tone-burst ABR.
• Notify patients upon approval/denial of prior authorization requests; set up appointments with their audiologist.
• Obtain and input accurate demographic and insurance information on the clinic information system on patients.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and developing personal growth opportunities such as CPR and leadership courses.
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Billing assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage all billing accounts including Medicare/Medicaid, HMO and individual accounts.
• Post insurance payments, explain patient what the EOB is about, collect payments from patients.
• Communicate annual contracting, CPT, and ICD-9 yearly changes to doctor's offices by creation of formal notification.
• Experience with billing systems and practices with CPT coding, ICD-9, and usages of coding for productive billing.
• Bill insurance companies using ICD-9 coding.
• Used denial reason codes on paper & electronic EOB in EMR/EHR software to examine denials.
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