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Accounting Specialist

Kindred Hospital Bay Area - St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, FL
Full-time

Accounting Specialist

St. Petersburg, Florida Facility Kindred Hospital Bay Area - St. Petersburg

Req ID 519756 Post Date 08 / 31 / 2024 Category Accounting and Finance

Description

ScionHealth is committed to a culture of service excellence as demonstrated by our employees’ adherence to the service excellence principles of Pride, Teamwork, Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Fun, Professionalism, and Responsibility.

As our most acute level of care, our specialty hospitals offer the same critical care patients receive in a traditional hospital or intensive care unit , but for an extended recovery period.

Our clinicians play a vital role in the recovery process for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients.

Full- Time Position

Job Summary : The Accounting Specialist coordinates and audits daily and monthly charge postings in patient accounting system.

Assists the Controller with journal entries, monthly close, balance sheet reconciliations, the reimbursement package, preparation of the budget and other accounting tasks as assigned.

Essential Functions :

  • Participates in hospital and departmental performance improvement activities to measure and assess the quality of services provided.
  • Print Daily Charge Reports and distribute to Department Managers
  • Complete the daily department report check off list
  • Make any charge adjustments returned by departments in Meditech
  • Complete zero charge and rejection reports and resolve any issues
  • Reconcile the midnight census reports
  • Reconcile daily consumer usage report to daily census
  • Post any manual charges for outside services to patient accts in Meditech
  • Adjust room and board charges in Meditech to match Blue Cross / Aetna / Cigna levels in order for revenue to be calculated correctly
  • Completed daily close routine in Meditech
  • Complete daily batch checklist to ensure all batches transmitted from ADM, Crown, Soft, Ventouch, RAD and ECHO, Copia.
  • Coordinate the signing of all admission paperwork.
  • Work with STAC’s to ensure proper accruals for outside service and match STAC UB-04 to log making any adjustments as needed.
  • Review invoices from Mobile X, EEG, PICCS and Ambulance and match to logs.
  • Distribute AP175 report weekly.
  • Coordinate Physician Super Bills, scan to corporate and track down any corrections or changes needed.
  • Prepare monthly reimbursement package
  • Match cash batches to postings in Meditech and cash log.
  • Reconcile various accounts on a monthly basis.
  • Prepare District allocation entries
  • Prepare monthly analysis of items distributed from Storeroom by item by classification to monitor usage and provide info to departments.
  • Prepare various budget worksheets
  • Perform other accounting tasks as required by Controller

Qualifications

Education :

  • Accounting degree preferred.
  • Equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may substitute for education requirements.

Experience :

  • Experience in a hospital or healthcare setting preferred but not required.
  • 30+ days ago
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