Company Overview

Since the 1970s, Chicago Family Health Center (CFHC) has become the primary care medical home for thousands of Chicagoans, including some of the city's most vulnerable populations. As an award winning, nationally recognized leading voice for community health centers, CFHC has played a vital role in providing access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare services to underserved communities throughout Chicago. We are a federally qualified community health center that has six locations: South Chicago, East Side, Roseland, Pullman, Chicago Lawn and Chicago Vocational Career Academy.

Our highly skilled doctors and medical staff are dedicated to providing the best possible care to our patients. We recognize the vital role CFHC plays not only in our patient’s health, but also as an essential resource that strengthens the communities we serve, which has established CFHC as a premier provider of choice and we welcome you to join our team. We are recruiting for our Coding & Billing Specialist, apply today and discover the many benefits of sharing your expertise with our valued patients.

Essential Functions

• Review encounters for proper diagnosis, contractual adjustments before processing.
• Submit claims daily to the billing service, ensuring claims are clean.
• Review & ensure sliding scale information is on the account, account reflects the correct adjustments according to the sliding scale category.
• Review self-pay accounts 60 days old in Medi, or the eligibility system to capture Medicaid eligibility.
• Inform the billing service company as soon as payment is received in CFHC bank account, scan of checks & backup, credit card payments received@ the bank or through the portal
• Ensure accuracy & timely recording of payment received in the bank is reflected in the patient account, reconcile the detailed posted payment report weekly to the bank receipts, resolve discrepancies immediately, timely before month end close.
• Review Lab crops invoices monthly to identify eligibility for patients, prepare information to be sent to Lab crops to generate credit.
• Run report for posted hospital charges by DR & procedure code.
• Work the task list for rejected claims as assigned by supervisor or manager daily.

Coding

• Must have experience working with either JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, Python, or C.
• Computer proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and medical billing software programs.

Education, Experience and Skills Required

• a minimum of an associates degree preferred
• Three (3) to four (4) years previous business office, health insurance, or equivalent experience required.
• Certification through the Healthcare Financial Management Associations and or billing required.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision (Employee/Employer Contribution)
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Plus Supplemental Life Insurance
• 401 (k)
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Developmental Support
• Tuition Reimbursement

Equal Opportunity:

Chicago Family Health Center is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer who is committed to cultivating diversity, equity and inclusion within all aspects of our organizations. We stand against and prohibit discrimination in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.