Patient Accounts Officer (Private Hospital)

Every claim you code correctly at this busy general practice in Prospecton gets paid faster. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Location: Prospecton, KwaZulu-Natal. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first. Hours are mostly Monday to Friday, with the odd Saturday in busy months.

• Book appointments and manage the doctor's diary on the practice software
• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close
• Request pre-authorisation for scans, procedures and admissions
• Code consultations and procedures with ICD-10 and CCSA or NHRPL tariffs
• Send monthly statements and age the debtors book

• Confident with Excel and email
• You keep patient information private, every time
• Friendly on the phone and firm about outstanding accounts
• Matric

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

• Free medical consultations for staff at some practices
• Parking on site
• Normal practice hours with most weekends off

• Specialist rooms care about the discipline, so say if you've coded for surgeons, anaesthetists or radiologists.
• Name the billing software you know in your CV headline; practices want someone who needs no system training.