Overview:
Responsible for performing routine and moderately complex Encounter issues under limited supervision in order to maintain and support our Edifices 837 submissions, processes and systems related to response files received from our Health plans. Interacts with Senior Analysts and Supervisor.

Essential Functions:

• Manage Encounter submissions to comply with CMS EDI edits to all Health Plans
• ANSI 837 knowledge inbound and outbound
• MSSQL Reporting Knowledge for Health Plan Acknowledgment Reporting
• Encounters day to day processing.
• Identifying trends and reoccurring errors
• Escalating with details and examples to Senior team members
• Manage the organizations encounter data to ensure efficient day-to-day operations.
• Maintain escalated issues in a centralized system for the purpose of documentation to improve productivity and efficiency.
• Edifecs management and optimization.
• Responsible for maintaining all front-end errors in edifecs.
• Responsible for trending any reoccurring errors and escalating to the appropriate team members.
• Follow through on responses and escalations that are not resolved in initial email contact.
• Creating a centralized area where escalations can be managed, documented, and resolved.
• Manage response files from all HCP health plans.
• Become well versed in the frequency of the file deliveries to insure there are no missing files.
• Manage and work response files as they are received. This will include updating and resubmitting encounters with invalid data.
• Monitoring the second response after an encounter has been resubmitted with corrected data.
• Strong communication skills with all health plans.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.
• Uses, protects, and discloses our patients’ protected health information (PHI) only in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards.

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