Payment collector vs account representative

Differences between payment collector and account representative duties and responsibilities

Payment collector example responsibilities.

• Prevent impeding loss and increasing profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns, consistently achieving high success standards.
• Post payments, EOB's, billing, call insurance's, patient statements and follow up
• Prevent impeding loss and increasing profitability through negotiation and enforcement of schedule collection campaigns, consistently achieving high success standards.
• Utilize various skip-tracing services such as Accurint and TheWorkNumber in order to locate consumers and verify employment for account recovery purposes.

Account representative example responsibilities.

• Manage all billing accounts including Medicare/Medicaid, HMO and individual accounts.
• Manage the daily correspondence from assign practices with keeping doctor/patient confidentiality under consideration along with HIPPA regulations.
• Manage and maintain an internal database system to generate reports and produce accurate account information for patients and insurance companies.
• Educate physicians to use current ICD-9 diagnostic coding and preparation to begin ICD-10 coding requirements.
• Analyze health care insurance/litigation patient account files to resolve outstanding and delinquent accounts due to the healthcare client.
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