Medical Billing Clerk (Specialist Rooms)

You'll keep the front of a busy general practice in Cape Town CBD organised so the doctors can focus on patients. Good for someone who wants to build a solid track record they can put on their CV.

The work is in Cape Town CBD, Western Cape, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Start is planned for the beginning of next month.

• Chase short payments with medical schemes and patients
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Book appointments and manage the doctor's diary on the practice software
• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close
• Send monthly statements and age the debtors book

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

• Experience with hospital case management and pre-auth
• Bookkeeping basics or Pastel knowledge for practice accounts

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

• 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.