Financial Counselling and Authorization Officer
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About the Role
Manages approval requests, coordinates documentation, communicates with payers, and assists patients with financial coverage and payment plans.
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Responsibilities
- Receive and adjudicate approval requests through agreed communication channels
- Coordinate initial assessment of approval requests and ensure completeness of clinical/coding documents
- Communicate with insurance companies, physicians, coding, and patients regarding authorization denials
- Log and update all assigned requests in productivity tracking sheet
- Follow up on pending approvals to obtain timely responses
- Ensure approvals/GOPs are correct and match requested services
- Obtain reauthorization revisions as per regulator rules
- Prepare reports on self pay data for senior management
- Document information in HIS and billing system accurately
- Assist self pay patients with financial assistance and payment plans
- Coordinate with outside resources (Red Crescent) to secure payment
Requirements
- Experience in insurance authorization and patient financial counseling in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of medical coding and billing systems
- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Ability to analyze medical reports and insurance regulations
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Overview
- Manages to receive and adjudicate approval requests through the agreed communication channels.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates to do initial assessment of the approval request and do the needed internal collaboration to ensure all the needed documents/data from the clinical/coding Side are complete and accurate.
- Facilitates once documents are complete communicate with the payers through the official communication channels (emails Payers Portals, E authorization in house system).
- Manages all correspondence with insurance companies, physicians, coding and patients in case of authorization denials to ensure clearing the insurance queries accordingly.
- Ensures logging and updating all assigned requests in the productivity tracking sheet.
- Coordinates to have a proper follow up on the pending to obtain a timely manner approvals.
- Ensures receiving and communicating approvals/GOPs internally as per the agreed process.
- Oversees that approvals/GOPs are correct and matching the requested services (DRG CPTS Drugs, HCPCs).
- Ensures obtaining the needed reauthorization revisions as per the regulators rules.
- Prepares and follow process escalation matrix to report delayed cases due to any external factors.
- Maintains and updates documents and insurance records such as eligibility, medical reports, treatment plan, claim amounts etc.
- Prepares reports as required on self pay data for review by the senior management
- Documents information in the HIS and billing system completely and accurately in order to ensure that the respective patient information is updated.
Additional Duties
- Demonstrates customer focus when interacting with internal or external stakeholders.
- Analyses documents such as medical reports and insurance regulations and providing the relevant inputs from same to the concerned parties
- Liaises with the Medical Records staff for coding and finance staff for billing purposes.
- Determines to self pay patient lists and call patients and/or their sponsors to check their insurance status and coverages.
- Manages visits self pay patients throughout the hospital including, Emergency Room (ER) and Inpatient locations to discuss patient responsibility, ability to pay, availability of financial assistance.
- Assures completing clearance process of current day patients, next day patients
- Liaises with case managers and discharging team on patient issues with insurance implications
- Develops affordable payment plans for self pay patients.
- Gathers all relevant information required to process financial assistance request.
- Facilitates and registers Guarantee of Payment (GOP) letters; maintains a copy of the Letter and provides Approval for treatment if required.
- Maintains patient statement of account on GOP letters with limits and provides approval for treatment if required.
- Prepares updated Statement of Account re: Charity Deposits, and provides Approval for treatment if required
Monitoring and Follow up
- Monitors and Follow up GOP revision required with regards to wrong DOA/Facility name/Amount/Service
- Assists patients seeking assistance for outstanding claims, issuance of receipts, and Charity applications.
- Completes all necessary paperwork in a timely manner.
- Coordinates with outside resources (Red Crescent) to secure payment for medical care.
- Monitors, maintain, analyze and update the financial reports of the patients to ensure all the accounts are maintained at acceptable.
- Collects estimated liability documents from patients.
- Assists and remain in constant touch with patients, to review their insurance benefits, and provide them with alternative solutions.
- Communicates financial coverage status and applicable financial decisions with all appropriate parties: patient , family , referring clinicians
- Complies with relevant rules, regulations, policies , and procedures
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Accountabilities
- Collects and maintains estimated liabilities from patients.
- Establishes and takes charge of health insurance benefits, conditions, and requirements by making phone inquiries, and by using eligibility systems and the internet.
- Maintains patients employment details and other particulars
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