Billing Manager- Jacksonville Florida

The Billing Manager is responsible for overseeing all medical billing functions; training a productive and effective billing staff and ensuring billing is accurate. Responsible for managing and supporting all aspects of billing operations, including management of medical billing employees, efficient workflow, and high productivity while managing all routine activities. Responsible for driving process improvements including workflow enhancements focused on gaining efficiencies to increase collections and decrease bad debt expense. Combines strong analytical skills with advanced excel applications to construct and analyze data for a variety of business and operational issues – including collection rates, managed care contracts, government carrier fees, internal pricing fee schedules.

Essential Functions:

• Supervises, oversees and evaluates the team’s work performance.
• Develops, implements, and maintains policies and procedures to ensure appropriate billing and payment cycles and accurate and timely billing, in accordance with established internal and third-party payor requirements.
• Reviews to identify current and potential problems in proper revenue management and suggests remedial measures to solve all issues in consultation with the Administrator.
• Monitors the delivery of projects with precision and timeliness.
• Develops appropriate modifications to improve existing workflow by identifying gaps between current outputs and expected requirements.
• Maintains up-to-date expertise and knowledge of healthcare billing laws, rules, regulations, and developments necessary for the organization to make informed business decisions.
• Creates and executes project work plans and audits as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements for several recurring major projects each year. Collaborates and coordinates with various team members in and out of the Billing Department to accomplish results.
• Establishes and implements quality assurance processes.
• Maintains statistics for production and accuracy.
• Supervises the daily activities of the Billing Team Members and ensures the completeness and accuracy of their work monitoring and recording of staff work productivity.
• Trains staff on job duties and workflow processes and ensures all job duties have coverage when personnel are on vacation or ill.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of billing experience, of that at least 3-5 years consisting of a management role within a healthcare environment with medium to large groups of physicians/providers in the related functions of billing and revenue cycle management.
• ASC Billing experience preferred.
• Experience with contracting.
• Interventional Pain Management billing experience a plus.
• Strong financial and reimbursement analysis skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, prioritize multiple tasks and problem solve under the pressure of deadlines.