Tenet Healthcare

Patient Accounts Specialist FT Days Brookwood Baptist Health Market

Posted on: 24 Mar 2021

Birmingham, AL

Job Description

Description:
Summary

Provide quality, timely courteous service and optimum maintenance of patient accounts, including dissemination of information, billing services, follow-up and collection of accounts receivable, bad debt, governmental and contract compliance issues/guidelines.

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Qualifications:
Education

High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience

2 years hospital business office, insurance claims processing, physician office billing and/or hospital admitting and PC/CRT. Prefer 3 years recent in hospital business office. Prefer basic medical terminology; working knowledge of third party payors, federal, state and local billing regulations; and bilingual (English and Spanish).

Job: Finance and Accounting

Primary Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Facility: Birmingham Market Office

Job Type: Full-time

Shift Type: Days

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Tenet Healthcare

Dallas, TX

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a multinational investor-owned healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Through its brands, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partnerships, including United Surgical Partners International (USPI), the company operates a number of facility types. At the end of 2018, Tenet had 115,500 employees and operated 68 hospitals with approximately 17,935 licensed beds, 23 surgical hospitals, and 475 outpatient centers. The company subsequently sold three hospitals in the Chicago area in January 2019, bringing the total hospital count to 65.

Since its founding in 1967, Tenet has expanded significantly. Among other major acquisitions and formations, Tenet founded Conifer Health Solutions in 2008, MedPost Urgent Care in 2014, and in 2013 acquired Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., an investor-owned hospital company whose operations complemented Tenet's existing business. The acquisition created the third-largest investor-owned hospital company in the United States in terms of revenue and the third-largest in number of hospitals owned. In 2015, Tenet acquired USPI, which created the largest operator of outpatient surgery centers in the United States. In 2018, the company ranked 147th in the Fortune 500.