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[Remote] Customer Service Specialist I #Full Time #Remote

🌍 Remote Β· United States πŸ’Ό Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 61st Street Service Corporation, which provides support staff for ColumbiaDoctors, is hiring a Customer Service Specialist I to handle and resolve patient, insurance carrier, and physician office calls. The role supports revenue cycle operations through payment collection, payment arrangements, account updates, and courteous customer service.

Responsibilities

  • Handle large volume of calls and perform work in a timely manner
  • Attempts to collect full payment from patient or guarantor in a professional and courteous manner
  • Establishes payment arrangements per guidelines. Documents terms in billing system
  • Applies of payments collected over the phone to each date of service
  • Handles customer inquiries, disputes and complaints. Escalates contentious complaints to supervisor or higher management
  • Obtains all insurance, demographic, guarantor information and updates patient profile as well as bill third party payers as appropriate
  • Clearly documents in system summary of work and follow up steps after each call

Skills

  • High school graduate or GED certificate is required
  • A minimum of 6 months' experience in a physician billing or third party payer environment
  • Must demonstrate an understanding of contracts, insurance benefits, exclusions and other billing requirements as well as claim forms, HMOs, PPOs, Medicare, Medicaid and compliance program regulations
  • Candidate must demonstrate the ability to understand and navigate the payer adjudication process
  • Patient financial and practice management system experience in Epic and/or other electronic billing systems
  • Knowledge of medical terminology
  • Previous call center/claims experience
  • Previous experience in an academic healthcare setting

Benefits

  • Primarily remote; candidates must reside in the Tri-State area, with occasional office visits for training, meetings, and other business needs.
  • Opportunity to grow as part of a Revenue Cycle Career Ladder.
  • Healthcare and paid time off for eligible employees.

Company Overview

  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center is a clinical and educational enterprise that offers medical, dental, and nursing services. It is a sub-organization of Columbia University. It was founded in 1767, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 250 in 2026, 404 in 2025, 329 in 2024, 328 in 2023, 368 in 2022, 283 in 2021, 221 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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