Collections specialist vs debt collector

Differences between collections specialist and debt collector 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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Debt collector example responsibilities.

• Prevent impeding loss and increasing profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns, consistently achieving high success standards.
• Work with FHA, obama programs at the time.
• Educate customers on ways to get medical assistance such as Medicaid, Medicare etc.
• Prevent foreclosure by putting people on repayment plans, submitting requests for modifications, or deed in lieu.
• File Medicaid, Medicare and commercial claims consisting of PPO discounts, nurse practitioner discounts, humanitarian discounts, etc.
• Maintain security and confidentiality of company and client information, following FDCPA regulations.
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