Program Specialist
About this role
Program Specialist
Position Summary
Austin Retina Associates is seeking a responsible, self-motivated individual to assist in providing unparalleled patient satisfaction, performing duties within our accounts receivable and insurance departments. In this role you will work with patients, insurance carriers and pharma programs.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Accurate data entry
- Receive inbound and place outbound calls for new patients to obtain insurance information
- Input assorted information into billing systems
- Enroll patients for varying cost medical programs
- Assist in monitoring faxes and upload to patient charts
- Post payments from patients
- Provide cost estimates to patients for medications and to arrange payments
- Assist with recovering payments on unpaid claims
- Respond to a high volume of internal instant messaging
Required Skills/Abilities
- Proficient with computers and ability to learn new softwares
- Ability to continually learn revamp and train in new processes
- High attention to detail
- Good communicator and ability to relate well with others
- Enjoy working in a high volume work flow of cases within a high-performance culture
- Thrives in a team oriented environment working closely with others
- Enjoy a diverse, family-type atmosphere with solid benefits and room for learning and growth
- Have a desire to be part of a winning team and to contribute in making it even better
- Desire to learn in a medical insurance/billing atmosphere
Preferred Attributes
- Proficient with computers and ability to learn new softwares
- Continually revamp and train in new processes
- High attention to detail
- Good communicator and relates well with others
- Enjoy working with a high volume of cases within a high-performance culture
- Thrives in a team oriented environment working closely with others
- Enjoy a diverse, family-type atmosphere with solid benefits and room for learning and growth
- Has a desire to be part of a winning team while contributing toward improvements
- Desire to learn in a medical insurance/billing atmosphere
- Bilingual in spanish a plus
- Ability to work a consistent Monday to Friday, 8-5 schedule
Physical Demands and Requirements
Prolonged sitting up to 8 hours a day; stand and walk; talk and hear both in person and by telephone; use hands to finger, handle and feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms. Regularly required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift up to 15 pounds on occasion. Specific vision abilities required by this job includes viewing multiple computer screens, close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Viewing images and operating computer devices constantly.
Company at a glance
Austin Retina Associates has been serving the citizens of Austin and surrounding communities since 1978. It is the largest retinal specialty group in Central Texas. Each of the highly respected retina physicians at Austin Retina Associates is a board-certified, licensed ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained retinal surgeon who is an expert in managing diseases involving the retina, vitreous and macula. The Austin Retina specialists concentrate on diabetic eye disease, retinal detachment, macular edema, epiretinal membrane, floaters, retinal surgery and more. Between them is over 100 years of combined medical knowledge and professional experience in providing patients with the very best vitreoretinal care available.
ARA continues to remain at the forefront of retinal specialty practices by utilizing cutting-edge diagnostic equipment while offering state-of-the-art surgical procedures and pharmaceutical treatment regimens. ARA collaborates with referring ophthalmologists, optometrists, primary care physicians and specialists to comprehensively treat vitreoretinal disease. Additionally, Austin Retina Associates is nationally recognized for its participation in ground-breaking, pivotal clinical trials for 25 years, which has allowed us to offer our patients the opportunity to receive novel procedures and therapies through enrollment in research studies.
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