Medical Aid Claims Administrator

At a dental practice in Epping, your job is clean files, correct codes and money that comes in on time. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Location: Epping, Western Cape. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first.

• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close
• Open patient files and capture consent forms in line with POPIA
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Chase short payments with medical schemes and patients
• Send monthly statements and age the debtors book

• At least 2 years in a medical practice, hospital or billing bureau
• Experience on a practice system such as GoodX, Elixir, Medinol or Healthbridge
• Confident with Excel and email
• Sound knowledge of ICD-10 coding and medical aid tariff codes

• Understanding of how HPCSA practitioner and BHF practice numbers are used on claims
• Experience with hospital case management and pre-auth
• Worked for a specialist discipline such as radiology, anaesthesia or orthopaedics

• Parking on site
• Normal practice hours with most weekends off
• Bonus linked to collections at billing bureaus
• Free medical consultations for staff at some practices

• Name the billing software you know in your CV headline; practices want someone who needs no system training.
• Give numbers if you can, such as your rejection rate or how much you cut the 90-day debtors.