Key Responsibilities:
- Completes insurance verifications and identifies terming approvals
- Monitors and tracks documentation, authorization renewals and benefits exhaustion
- Ensures the Common Working File is properly updated with services provided
- Reviews, corrects and updates claims based on edits to support accurate and compliant claims submissions
- Completes claim follow-up, denials, appeals and corrections
- Completes medical records requests by payers
- Completes daily, weekly and monthly reporting as assigned my leadership to ensure proper and compliant claims processing
- Pursues collections of unpaid self-pay/private pay balances
- Processes and submit monthly patient statements
- Perform self-pay/private-pay collections calls, send collections letters on past due accounts
- Collaborates with clinical staff to resolve complex billing issues
- Completes payment posting, correct posting errors, research credits and reconcile posting errors
- Provides support to the clinical team regarding payer questions, tools and resources, assisting with problem solving as needed
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in healthcare billing, pre-services, accounting or financial analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, finance, business administration, accounting or a related field preferred or commensurate professional experience
- 2+ years of healthcare revenue cycle experience
No certification/licensure required.
FTE:1Possible Remote/Hybrid Option:
RemoteShift Rotation:Day Rotation (United States of America)Shift Start Time:8:00Shift End Time:4:30Weekends:NoHolidays:NoCall Obligation:NoUnion:DC USWA Main & Neighborhoods (DCUMN)Union Posting Deadline:03/20/2025Compensation Range:
$17.62 - $26.25Employee Benefits at Essentia Health:
At Essentia Health, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with supplemental options to fit your needs. We offer a 401(k) plan with employer contributions to help you plan for the future, and we invest in your professional development through training, tuition reimbursement, and educational programs. To help you thrive both at work and at home, we provide flexible scheduling, generous time off, and wellness resources focused on your physical, mental, and emotional health. Please note that benefit eligibility may vary. For full details, refer to your benefit summary or contact our HR Service Center at (218) 576-0000.
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What We Do
Essentia Health is an integrated health system serving patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota.
Headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, Essentia Health combines the strengths and talents of more than 15,000 employees, including more than 2,200 physicians and advanced practitioners, who serve our patients and communities through the mission of being called to make a healthy difference in people’s lives.
Essentia Health, which includes many Catholic facilities, is guided by the values of Quality, Hospitality, Respect, Joy, Justice, Stewardship, and Teamwork. The organization lives out its mission by having a patient-centered focus at 14 hospitals, 78 clinics, six long-term care facilities, six assisted living and independent living facilities, six ambulance services, 24 retail pharmacies, and one research institute









