The Enrollment & Eligibility CSR/Processor supports eligibility and enrollment functions, including member inquiries, enrollment processing, and related administrative responsibilities.
Responsibilities
Processing
- Process enrollment & legal documents for all plans
- Process appeals, write summaries, pursue approvals and overturn denials.
- Verify provider credentials and update the database.
Customer Service
- Handle incoming telephone calls and assist members with eligibility, enrollment, benefits, and plan-related inquiries in an efficient, prompt, and professional manner.
- Provide high quality customer service to all Fund members by documenting telephone, written and walk-in inquiries regarding benefits, or claim status.
- Respond to and resolve complex issues, including those escalated by members.
- Serve as primary, daily contact to clients on delivery of services.
- Resolve complex plan provision questions and issues addressed.
- Raise issues as appropriate to Team Supervisor or Department Manager.
- Learn and use professional excellence tools and concepts to ensure efficient and quality output/service delivery.
Teamwork
- Work cooperatively with other team members.
- Actively participate in team meetings and training activities.
- Perform additional responsibilities and projects as periodically assigned.
Education/Certification:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Skills/Abilities:
- Minimum 40 WPM and 3,000 KPH proficiency
- Ability to maintain current knowledge of all plan’s eligibility & enrollment rules to provide correct information to plan participants and providers.
- Ability to process enrollment and legal documents for all plans.
- Ability to verify provider credentials & update database.
- Ability to process appeals, write summaries, pursue approvals and overturn denials.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Professional, client-focused approach to colleagues and assignments.
- Ability to seek out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.
- Strong dedication to follow-through on all tasks and assignments.
- Ability to sit for long periods of time operating a computer keyboard.
Employee Benefits Program
COMPANY PROVIDES:
- MEDICAL, DENTAL, VISION
- SHORT-TERM DISABILITY
- Full coverage benefits for a low weekly premium of $5 (Employee Only), $15 (for Child(ren) and $20 per week for full family or Employee/Spouse.
- COMPANY PAID supplemental dental coverage of $1,000 per year for Employee.
- COMPANY PAID LONG TERM Disability & Life/AD&D coverage.
- 401K Plan including company match up to 5%
- COMPANY PAID additional pension plan entirely funded by the company.
- EXCEPTIONAL TIME OFF package including Paid Personal Leave (PPL) and Vacation with annual BUY BACK options!!!!
- Annual, automatic pay increases.
Southwest Service Administrators provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, military and veteran status, age, physical and mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other considerations made unlawful by applicable state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence compensation and training. Southwest Service Administrators expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, military and veteran status, age physical and mental disability, or genetic characteristics.
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Minimum 40 WPM and 3,000 KPH typing proficiency
- Ability to maintain current knowledge of plan eligibility and enrollment rules
- Ability to process enrollment and legal documents for all plans
- Ability to verify provider credentials and update database
- Ability to process appeals, write summaries, pursue approvals and overturn denials
- Strong oral and written communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Professional, client-focused approach to colleagues and assignments
- Ability to sit for long periods while operating a computer keyboard
- Experience handling incoming telephone calls and resolving complex member inquiries and escalations
What We Do
Southwest Service Administrators was created in 1995 as an independent Third Party Administrator (“TPA”) to provide unique and specialized services to labor-management, Taft-Hartley Trust Funds. Our mission is to provide superior customer service to our clients in all areas of self-funded health & welfare trust funds, defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans and legal, training and vacation plan administration. Our services are customized to suit the individual needs of our clients. Our services include highly personalized and bilingual customer service, trust fund accounting, eligibility and hour bank programs, COBRA/HIPAA compliance and administration and medical management services customized to each client’s needs and requirements. We also offer our own exclusive Mexico PPO network. We are versatile in our approach to solving client plan issues including innovative thinking as a means to simple, but effective, solutions. We welcome you to our homepage and encourage you to take a look around our website and call us if you have any questions about our company or service.





