Patient Accounts Specialist - $5k Sign On Bonus

Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health is looking for a Patients Account Specialist! If you have a desire to work in an engaging environment with a team of professionals dedicated to the healing and health of the patients we serve, we want to hear from you!

Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center is a 97-bed facility located in Springfield, Illinois. We are dedicated to providing youth with compassionate mental health treatment that encourages self-responsibility and personal growth. We are the only facility of our kind in Central Illinois! We provide psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents that present with a broad range of psychiatric and behavioral disorders. A clinically skilled multidisciplinary team works to partner with the youth and family to accomplish their goals in a supportive and therapeutic environment

Summary: Responsible for assisting and directing patients and Lincoln Prairie staff in matters and/or concerns related to business process and procedures. To maintain or monitor through completion, those functions directly outlined as their area of responsibility.

Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Education and/or Experience: High School Diploma or GED required. Min 2-3 years experience, responsible for assisting and directing patients and LPBHC staff in matters and/or concerns related to business process and procedures.

Certifications, Licenses and Registrations: None.

Essential Functions:
Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job’s purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable. Note: (other duties may be assigned, deleted or changed at any time, at the discretion of management, formally, or informally, either verbally or in writing).
1. Assume the responsibility for updating patient demographic and/or insurance information, as identified by either the patient or via a written update.
2. Conduct patient interviews to gain information.
3. Arrange payment plans, as necessary
4. Collect and prepare charge tickets, as assigned for central charge entry.
5. Assist patients and LPBHC staff with billing, eligibility or benefit concerns.
6. Work directly with front and/or back office to obtain the necessary information to complete the functions outlined above.

This opportunity offers the following:

Challenging and rewarding work environment
Growth and Development Opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
Competitive Compensation

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

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