Billing Specialist

6 Month Contract Role 

 

A medical Company based in Sandton is looking for a Billing Specialist to join the team for a 6-month contract role.

 

Skills:
Maintain client service principles to ensure client expectations are met.
Liaison with practitioners and medical aids.
Deal with client queries in an effective consumer-centric manner
Medical Aid follow up on Rejections and successful rework resulting in payment receipt from Funders
Accurate Billing using an EDI
Extremely proficient in MS excel and word
Good communication skills
Reliable and professional
Organized
Good time management skills
Team player
Dedicated
Fast learner
Motivated
Easy to work with
Extremely fluent in English
Fluent in another language is advantageous (Afrikaans, etc)
 

Duties:

• Full Debtors function - Managing 45 Medicare pharmacy stores, full debtor’s books

• Collections and reconciliations, banking, overseeing allocations

• Control of all weekly invoicing and credit notes

• Approval of credit limits, monitoring of accounts, opening accounts

• ITC and credit checks

• Hand over accounts, liaise with lawyers, all old debt collections

• Resolve account queries, and outstanding payments, allocations of payments

• Approval of customer accounts, credit limits / Monitoring of credit limits, re-evaluating and increasing, decreasing of customer credit limits and accounts, credit checks, ITC and Bank codes, monthly statements, invoicing, journals, debit, and credit notes

• Sending of monthly statements and invoices

• Weekly and monthly debtors report on the overdue account

• Managing staff accounts

• Liaise with Medical aids regarding payments, reversals, claim resubmissions, etc.

• Patient refunds

• Reconciliation of Bank Statements

• Resolve account queries from patients and medical aids

• Print and send out client statements

• Pull out reports for Management as and when required

• Process cheques, credit card, and cash payments

• Petty cash management

• Allocation of payments to patients’ accounts

• Prepare Scheme Payment Report showing all payments from Medical Aids

• Deal with overdue accounts, call patients for overdue accounts and do handovers for unpaid

accounts

• Weekly debtors report on overdue accounts

• Process debit orders and monthly credit card payments

• Process staff medication accounts

• Prepare and manage the Age Analysis

• Sort company post

• Attend to walk-in patients with account queries

• Prepare month-end reports

• Assist with front desk duties as required

• Ad-hoc duties related to the position

• Assist the Financial Manager and CFO as required

• Monthly invoicing of Medical Schemes

• Do account journals and reversals

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