Claims Specialist

Billing Claims Specialist

Every person deserves compassion, dignity, and the safety of a place to call home. Homelessness is the largest social and public health crisis in California. Illumination Health + Home is a growing non-profit organization dedicated towards disrupting the cycle of homelessness by providing targeted, interdisciplinary services in our recuperative care centers, emergency shelters, housing services and children's and family programs. IF currently has 13+ facilities with 22+ micro-communities scattered across Orange County, Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire.

The role of a Billing Claims Specialist involves overseeing the billing process for customers or patients, processing payments, maintaining financial records, and ensuring accurate billing and claims submissions. In addition, the Claims specialist is also responsible for keeping account receivables for CalAIM current, claim follow-up and escalation, and must have knowledge of billing codes and standard procedures. The pay rate for this role is $25-$27 per hour. The schedule for this role is a hybrid schedule with Monday / Thursday in office and Tuesday / Wednesday / Friday WFH. Responsibilities include :

• Reviewing data and creating claims for services rendered
• Ensuring claims meet the standards of our contracts and programs
• Verifying authorizations via provider portals or authorization letters on Kipu prior to claim submission
• Verifying eligibility prior to claim submission via provider or DHCS portals
• Review client records to extract applicable data necessary for billing purposes, including but limited to ICD 10 Diagnosis codes, CPT codes for services rendered etc.
• Review and follow up on outstanding account receivables
• Review any rejected or denied claims and conduct proper follow up procedures (Escalations / Appeals / Claim corrections)
• Monitor and maintain county aging and escalating trends, write offs, etc.
• Have knowledge in understanding, reading EOB's and Remittance Advice
• Posting payment accurately to claims and continuing with the claim close out process
• Assist supervisors in any projects related to billing that may come up
• Attend monthly team meetings or trainings at Corporate location
• Expectations : Communicate with tact and professionalism
• Be able to meet targets and work under pressure with a high volume of claims
• Maintain knowledge of industry standard CMS guidelines for Billing
• Must be motivated to work independently as well as in a group setting.

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