Patient Financial Counselor - Acadia Healthcare

Description ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Verify and document detailed patient insurance benefit and eligibility information in HMS, logs and in financial charts for all inpatient and outpatient services

Verify eligibility for all Medicare patients and printout eligibility inquiry

Check in/register patients when needed to include financial counseling, payment collections, etc

Post physician charges into PMC and keep physician logs updated

Alert Financial Counselors and Business Office Director of all benefit eligibility matters that suggest or challenge reimbursement

Create financial charts for each inpatient and/or outpatient admission

Obtain required patient signatures/data for all services

Collect patient payments as identified

All collected payments must be logged in the designated tracking tools and reconciled

Payment collections must have corresponding receipt in receipt book and must be securely locked until taken to responsible party for deposit

Assist the Business Office by obtaining insurance claim status for unpaid claims when assigned to a claim status project

OTHER FUNCTIONS: Perform other functions and tasks as assigned

Qualifications Skills Preferred + Financial Awareness: Some Knowledge Behaviors Preferred + Team Player: Works well as a member of a group Motivations Preferred + Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks Education Required + High School/GED or better Experience Required + 2 years: Two years prior admissions and or collections experience in a hospital setting required, psychiatric experience preferred

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information

41 CFR 60-1.35(c)