About this role
Job Summary: Posting all payments and adjustment, balancing the general ledger, keying refunds, monitoring the electronic postings, tracing all trace payments.
Education:
Required:
High school graduate or equivalent.
Preferred:
Some college
Experience:
Required:
Two years experience related to cashiering or general accounting background
Must be proficient with 10 key calculator
Must have some knowledge of Insurance contracts
Preferred:
Insurance knowledge
Position Requirement(s): License/Certification/Registration
Required:
Preferred:
Collections Patient Account Representative Certification (CPAR)
Department Position Summary:
The Cash Specialist is responsible for keying all payments and adjustments according to individual patient accounts. He/She is responsible for researching all unidentified payments and follow-up accordingly by either refund or forwarding to the appropriate EMC department. The Cash Specialist must balance everything keyed and reconcile via on line cash posting report and then enter on a spreadsheet to be keyed as a journal entry into EMC general ledger. He/She is responsible for monitoring the general ledger clearing accounts to ensure a zero balance is maintained. The Cash Specialist other duties include going to EMC downtown to take miscellaneous payments and write receipts, distribute petty cash and deposit all miscellaneous monies daily. He/She also delivers any mail to the Executive office. The Cash Specialist also is responsible for all EMC credit balances and must pull all corresponding information pertaining to a particular credit balance (id: Explanation of Benefits) and write up on a credit balance worksheet so that a refund may be keyed in order to resolve the credit balance. All SMS/Invision refunds are keyed by the Cash Specialist. After refunds have been keyed into PeopleSoft they must be reconciled within Invision. Names, addresses and payment amounts must be verified with the keying process. The Cash Specialist is responsible for tracing all payments to the party requesting the trace. The Cash Specialist is also responsible for monitoring and balancing all electronic postings. The cash Specialist must be proficient with 10 key. The Cash Specialist must also know Insurance contracts in order to work the electronic remittance for correct adjustments, this knowledge will also be helpful when working up refunds that were pd on the wrong rate. Performs other duties as assigned.
Other facts
About Erlanger Health System
Erlanger, named among "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report, is a non-profit, academic teaching center affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Chattanooga. Erlanger is also a Level-One Trauma Center for adults and the only provider of tertiary care services for the citizens of an entire four-state region, encompassing southeast Tennessee, north Georgia, north Alabama and western North Carolina. With a history that dates back more than a century, Erlanger is recognized as one of the nation's finest public hospitals and a leader in healthcare.
The Erlanger hospital system includes Children's Hospital at Erlanger (CHE), the only academic medical center in the tri-state region devoted solely to children and is a Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Center (CRPC)— the highest designation in the state for pediatrics. CHE has a full range of pediatric subspecialists, as well as a pediatrics ER, ICU, and Level III neonatal intensive care unit, providing the highest level of care in the region for premature and sick infants.
Each year, more than one million people are treated by the team of healthcare professionals who are part of Erlanger.
What you'll do
- The Cash Specialist is responsible for keying all payments and adjustments according to individual patient accounts and researching unidentified payments. They must balance everything keyed and reconcile via online cash posting reports.
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