Medical Aid Claims Administrator – Experienced

At a private hospital admissions office in Tembisa, your job is clean files, correct codes and money that comes in on time. You'll work with a small crew, so being easy to work with matters as much as skill.

This post is in Tembisa (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Submit claims electronically and work through the rejection report daily
• Chase short payments with medical schemes and patients
• Send monthly statements and age the debtors book

• Confident with Excel and email
• Matric
• Sound knowledge of ICD-10 coding and medical aid tariff codes
• Experience on a practice system such as GoodX, Elixir, Medinol or Healthbridge
• You keep patient information private, every time

• Worked for a specialist discipline such as radiology, anaesthesia or orthopaedics
• Medical terminology or clinical coding certificate

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

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