Billing associate vs billing assistant

Differences between billing associate and billing assistant duties and responsibilities

Billing associate example responsibilities.

• Manage the submission and reimbursement of claims bill to insurance companies using ICD-9 coding.
• Accept and process healthcare claims and confidential medical records; verify patient eligibility and manage the Medicare and Medicaid billing process.
• Verify correct ICD-9 and CPT codes for a variety of specialties submission of electronic claims to clearinghouse.
• Ensure appropriate medical terminology and HIPAA compliance for all claims entry/online submissions, payment posting, insurance and patient aging.
• Help office transition from patient charts to new EMR system.
• Scan in all documents to EMR routing reports and labs to ordering physicians.
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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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