Collections specialist vs collections, customer service

Differences between collections specialist and collections, customer service duties and responsibilities

Collections specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage university A/R processes and enforce tuition payment policy.
• Manage accounts for healthcare clients, review detailed patient information for payment resolution while abiding HIPPA privacy and security regulations.
• Review denied Medicare and Maine Medicaid insurance claims for accuracy.
• Analyze hospital insurance claims of individual patients for errors and contact major insurance carriers for claims dispute resolution.
• Analyze accounts for patients ineligible for private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid and indicating inability to pay balance.
• Possess effective persuasion and negotiation skills, excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to deliver quality customer service.
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Collections, customer service example responsibilities.

• Monitor all assign accounts by reviewing the client's aging, manage all potential bad debit, DSO, aging.
• Provide excellent verbal, written, oral communication skills, attend ongoing training of collections and FDCPA regulations and guidelines.
• Provide excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and customer service skills via telephone.
• Research accounts to verify credits and debits make are accurately post against supporting documents showing timely reflect within the FDCPA guidelines.
• Prevent impending loss and increase profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns.
• Submit additional information request by insurance companies such as medical records, primary/secondary insurance explanation of benefits (EOB).
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