Leigh Kuhl-Roberts

Payment Posting (Research) Specialist: Working in the Cash Application Department for a company that specializes in Emergency Physicians billing. Assisting other departments with payment research to resolve patient’s accounts through electronic task manager. Research of unidentified payments. Assisting the reconciliation team with daily balancing. Posting payments, both manual and electronic along with contractual adjustments. Correcting accounts of payment issues. Other special projects as assigned

Medical Collections for Ambulatory Surgery Center(s) that specialize in the Lap Band procedure. Duties include, but not limited to: claim status – via phone and websites, EOB denials, insurance correspondence and requests, appeals, adjustments, statements and other itemized billing.

Temporary assignments through a medical staffing firm, on and off since 2002.

Open daily mail, Forwarding documentation to corresponding department, Preparing daily deposit, Posting medical payments and adjustments from explanation of benefits. Posting medical insurance recoupment/charge backs. Monthly reports. Forwarded denials to billing department. Write-off/adjustments. Copying explanation of benefits for secondary payor claims. Scanning all incoming records and associate those records in the virtual chart in the EMR system.

Worked for Psychiatrists; my duties included (but not limited to): daily balancing monies for deposit, checking charts, payment posting, claim processing (both electronic and paper), authorizations, insurance verification, hospital charges, EOB denials, claim status, monthly patient statements, patient phone calls, and general office.

Registration of new patients, updating established patient demographics, coding of charge tickets, posting charges, claims submission, reviewing and resolving EOB batches, monthly and weekly reports, patient billing, checking claim status, returned mail, account documentation, maintaining files, answering phones and general office.

Precertification of cardiac and vascular diagnostic testing, outpatient surgery and inpatient admissions with patient’s medical insurance/managed care companies. Supplying insurance companies with necessary codes (CPT and ICD-9) and clinical information for precertification.Verification of medical insurance; obtaining benefits and eligibility for Medicare, Medicaid, PPO, POS, HMO, EPO and Indemnity Plans.

Working for a billing company specializing in Physiatry and Physical Rehab. Patient registration, demographic updates and claim processing. Medical Records Clerk: Medical record requests, filing, verifying patient balances, answering phones, out going mail, faxing, copying, claim processing, administrative projects and other general office duties.

Registering patients in computer system (Meditech), public relations, responsibility of the signing of legal forms, answering multiline phones, collections, midnight hospital census, various reports and general office duties. Bed Control: Coordinating bed assignments; including admissions, in-house transfer from other facilities, reservations, discharges, etc.

Registering patients into computer system (HBOSS), public relations, PBX switchboard, responsibility of signing of legal forms, answering multiline phones, collections, insurance verification/ precertification, PTERM (entering ICD-9-CM & CPT codes into computer for billing purposes), midnight hospital census, updating and upkeep of Emergency Room Log Book, and other general office duties.