Medical Billing Officer
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Job Summary:
The Medical Billing Officer is in charge of reviewing, auditing, and processing medical bills including payment, promptly and effectively according to operations set standards and ICRC financial rules and guidelines.
Objectives and Tasks:
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Liaise with the ICRC Medical Accountant in the daily running of the hospital project and provide monthly, quarterly and yearly monitoring reports of all achieved projects, tasks, and duties.
- Set up and update regularly a medical financial approval system to proceed all investigations/medical procedures approved by ICRC physicians.
- Follow up on the patients’ coverage in collaboration with Social Worker department.
- Update the patient financial information on the ICRC database.
- Monitor and proceed the payment of patients’ bills in a timely manner following the below steps:
- Live monitoring of patients’ bills using the hospital information system.
- Receive hospital bills from the collection/accounting department.
- Verify the hospital bills of the patients sponsored by ICRC to ensure that the bills are in accordance with:
- ICRC criteria, procedures, and treatment plan green lighted by the ICRC hospital team.
- Ministry of Public Health flat rate/hospital accreditation level.
- CPT book, Laws, and regulations.
- Discuss and adjust with the hospital billing department the charges that are not in line with the medical coverage approved by ICRC hospital project team.
- Ensure that the bills after being checked and approved are submitted to the ICRC Finance & Administration department for payment.
- Follow the payment procedures according to Beirut Delegation Administration guidelines and ensures that the delegation financial rules are respected and reinforced.
- Maintain an archiving system for the submitted bills and cover pages.
- Proceed the payment related bills after ensuring the requested criteria are met.
Position Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
Years of experience required: 1 - 2 years’ work experience in one of the following:
- Auditing / reviewing patients’ medical bills,
- Precertification work in insurance or third-party administrator (TPA),
- Claims processing in insurance or third-party administrator (TPA).
Level of education: Bachelor’s degree
Field of education: Health (nursing, midwifery, public health, etc.)
Training: Health Information Coding Diploma or Claims processing and CPT auditing.
Languages: Fluency in English and Arabic. French is a plus.
Required Competencies
- Communication skills: Advanced
- Leadership: Basic
- Accountability: Advanced
- Personal efficiency / Time management: Advanced
- People Management: Basic
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Advanced
- Representing the ICRC: Proficient
- Beneficiary & Client focused: Advanced
- Financial Accounting Management: Basic
- Financial Analysis and Reporting: Basic
- Financial Management: Basic
- Financial Internal control and compliance: Basic
- Financial applications and processes: Basic
Job Details:
Job Location: Tripoli Governmental Hospital, Lebanon
Working Schedule: Monday till Friday, from 8:00am till 4:30pm
Contract Type: Fixed Term, 1 year (based on the performance and need for the position)
Salary Package: // 1’570- 2’025 // USD
Opening Date: 15.05.2023
Closing Date: 28.05.2023
NOTE:
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- Lebanon
- North Lebanon
- Tripoli