Esther Hamovitz
Billing Specialist
About
Review and posting of office charges (including procedures) patient accounts receivable (collections calls, letters, send to collections, etc.) Insurance aging, denials & appeals research Post insurance and patient payments
Experience
Billing Specialist - Oregon Dermatology - Springfield, OR
(2024-03)
- Review and posting of office charges (including procedures) patient accounts receivable (collections calls, letters, send to collections, etc.)
- Insurance aging, denials & appeals research
- Post insurance and patient payments
- Reconcile monthly A/R reports
- Educate providers on proper billing practices
Billing Specialist - Journey Family Medicine - Eugene, OR
(2022-08 - 2024-03)
- Register patient demographic insurance, schedule appointments
- Send referrals out to other facilities for various services
- Request PAs for a variety of services (e.g. MRI's, CT, Prescriptions, etc...)
- Process ROIs from patient and facilities
- Working collections for patient balances
- Setting up insurance portals
- Helping with credentialing
- Enter and verify insurance information and daily charges
- Transmit electronic claims and submit paper claims accurately within a timely manner
- Post all payments from patients and insurance companies as well as contractual adjustments and deductibles
- Follow up on all unpaid claims aged over 30 days (Patient, Primary and Secondary)
- Decrease denials
Billing Specialist - Oregon Neurology Associates - Eugene, OR
(2022-07 - 2022-08)
- Enter all patient demographics, insurance information and daily charges
- Transmit electronic claims and submit paper claims accurately within a timely manner
- Post all payments from patients and insurance companies as well as contractual adjustments and deductibles
- Follow up on all unpaid claims aged over 30 days (Patient, Primary and Secondary)
- Decrease denials
Medical Billing Specialist - Twin Oaks Medical - Eugene, OR
(2020-02 - 2022-07)
Twin Oaks Medical: Billing Specialist
- Working collections for patient balances
- Setting up insurance portals
- Helping with credentialing paperwork
- Enter all patient demographics, insurance information and daily charges
- Transmit electronic claims and submit paper claims accurately within a timely manner
- Post all payments from patients and insurance companies as well as contractual adjustments and deductibles
- Follow up on all unpaid claims aged over 30 days (Patient, Primary and Secondary)
- Decrease denials
- Writing appeals
Receptionist - Benessere Chiropractic - Eugene, OR
(2019-12 - 2020-02)
- Front Desk (to check-in patients and communicate effectively with patients)
- Check in patients
- Verify insurance
- Schedule patient appointments
Medical Records Assistant - Pathology Consultants
(2019-07 - 2020-02)
Clerical duties: faxing, phone calls (answering and calling), scanning, etc
- Routes correspondence, pathologist's order to pathologist for review and signature on a timely manner
- Auditing medical records
- Data entry of medical information
- Sending/receiving packages with sensitive material to and from facilities
- Dictating medical information from pathologist's
- Informing Health Information Manager of any problems and/or discrepancies in charts in a timely manner
Internship - Springfield Family Physicians
(2019-06 - 2019-08)
- Front Desk (to check-in patients and communicate effectively with patients)
- Check in patients
- Verify insurance
- Schedule patient appointments
- Pod Clerk (to efficiently schedule patient with providers)
- Obtain patient information
- Schedule patients and document what they need to be seen for
- Prioritizing tasks given (phone service; provider patient attention based on provider schedule; and faxing, mailing, scanning documents)
Waitress and Cashier - Dairy Queen - Pleasant Hill, OR
(2012-07 - 2015-03)
- Served 40 to 90 customers daily, listening and guiding through menu options in a proficient and prompt manner
- Accurately entered customer orders, and processed cash and credit transactions
- Maintained a clean and safe work environment
- Demonstrated positive, effective communication with the customers with the aim of producing satisfaction and generating return business
Waitress and Cashier - Taco Bell - Woodland Park, CO
(2011-10 - 2012-02)
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Health Information Technology - Lane Community College