Medical Billing Clerk (Specialist Rooms)

Every claim you code correctly at this specialist orthopaedic rooms in Soweto gets paid faster. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

You'll be based at a specialist orthopaedic rooms in Soweto. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

• Open patient files and capture consent forms in line with POPIA
• Check medical aid membership and benefits before each consultation
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Submit claims electronically and work through the rejection report daily
• Request pre-authorisation for scans, procedures and admissions
• Send monthly statements and age the debtors book
• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close

• Confident with Excel and email
• Sound knowledge of ICD-10 coding and medical aid tariff codes
• Friendly on the phone and firm about outstanding accounts
• Matric
• At least 2 years in a medical practice, hospital or billing bureau

• Experience with hospital case management and pre-auth
• Medical terminology or clinical coding certificate

• Free medical consultations for staff at some practices
• Bonus linked to collections at billing bureaus
• Parking on site

• Keep your cover note short and error-free; front desk jobs are judged on how neatly you communicate.
• Name the billing software you know in your CV headline; practices want someone who needs no system training.