If you are located within commutable distance to Bangor Metro Area, you will have the flexibility to telecommute * (work from home) as you take on some tough challenges.

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Performs insurance verification duties to financially clear the patient in advance of date of service. Verifies healthcare coverage and benefits for applicable services, working with the patient, provider, and payer to ensure accurate information and needs are met in advance of service.

This position is full-time (40 hours/week) Monday - Friday. Employees are required to work 8:00am - 4:30pm EST and have flexibility to work onsite one week per quarter. It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime. Our office is located at 43 Whiting Hill Road, Brewer, ME 04412.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensures excellent customer service when assisting patients, providers, and other departments
• Collects and updates patient demographic and insurance information, making changes as necessary to ensure accuracy with insurance benefits, referrals, and authorizations.
• Verifies precertification/authorizations for scheduled services utilizing internet sites, payer contacts, and software as appropriate. Assesses coverage and benefits, and accurately determines patient responsibility as applicable.
• Identifies self pay patients and shares information with financial counseling for assistance with patient financial obligation and options.
• Partners closely with the clinical, office, billing, and registration teams and works to review authorizations timely, as applicable
• Appropriately documents all conversations with insurance companies and health care facilities that pertain to the authorizations or payment of services.
• Escalates questions or concerns to leadership as needed.
• Maintains and exhibits a current knowledge of insurance plans, associated workflows and information, and the impact of this role within the revenue cycle.
• Remains aware of department productivity expectations, and other measurable performance data and meets/exceeds individual contributions to the team performance.
• Strives to maximize revenue and minimize bad debt.
• Maintains a safe environment complying with NLH policies and procedures; reports and directly addresses environmental hazards and violations of patient safety policy and/or protocol when involved or observed.
• May perform other duties upon request.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma / GED (or higher)
• 6+ months experience in an office setting, customer service setting (over the phone or face to face) or phone support role or call center environment
• Familiarity with computer and Windows PC applications, which includes the ability to learn new and complex computer system applications
• Ability to work onsite 1 week every quarter
• Ability to work 8:00am - 4:30pm EST. It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime.
• Full COVID-19 and Flu vaccination are an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of Patient Access experience in a hospital or medical setting
• Understanding of medical terminology
• Working knowledge of insurance policies and procedures and patient care settings

Telecommuting Requirements:

• Reside within commutable distance to Bangor Metro Area, ME
• Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy
• Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
• Must live in a location that can receive a UnitedHealth Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies required all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

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