Billing assistant vs billing and insurance coordinator

Differences between billing assistant and billing and insurance coordinator duties and responsibilities

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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Billing and insurance coordinator example responsibilities.

• Develop a database to maintain/update all manage care, Medicare and Medicaid fee schedules for accessibility by physicians and administrators.
• Look up for ICD-9 codes charges on a daily basic to verify that physicians post charges.
• Enter new and verify insurance information, putting in ICD-9 codes, correcting location and too late to bill.
• Instruct and supervise support staff in accurate CPT and ICD9 coding for the oncology department of a large medical clinic.
• Research and resubmitted reject claims with correct diagnosis, CPT codes and erroneous demographics for deny charges to insurances for reprocessing.
• Maintain strict patient confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA guidelines/regulations.
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