Departmental assistant vs billing assistant

Differences between departmental assistant and billing assistant duties and responsibilities

Departmental assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage and develop the daily clinical schedule for the in-patient rehabilitation staff taking into consideration Medicare guidelines and staffing ratios.
• Input appointments into HRIS (HCM- PeopleSoft) and maintain all HRIS records; process student and limit payroll in
• Attend various meetings, take dictation, write up and distribute minutes.
• Process employee time and payroll - records, adjustments, travel and other reimbursable payments.
• Create and curate social media presence of the department on Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr.
• Tutor primarily engineering students in the subjects of engineering, physics, math, chemistry, and biology.
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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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