Billing Rules Associate
Athenahealth
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
We are looking for a Billing Rules Associate to join our Claim readiness team within our Technology Enabled Services division. Your job will be to resolve client cases by understanding client and industry requirements for billing rules and claim formatting, and defining additions or updates to athena’s billing rules engine. . But enough about us; let’s talk about you.
You will be using your knowledge of healthcare billing, athenaNet, and billing rules to troubleshoot client issues and determine the root cause of the problem, communicate clearly through written and verbal updates with clients and internal stakeholders and resolve the issues through additions or updates to athena’s billing rule engine.
The Team: To deliver industry-leading billing rules that take action on claims exclusively, and are primarily intended to ensure the content and formatting of claims are in line with payer and industry requirements before submission
Job Responsibilities
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities and escalations with balanced decision-making.
- Become a subject matter expert in one or more types of healthcare claim submission and billing logic.
- Understand the context and business reason behind client requirements.
- Validate payer requirements using payer documentation and phone calls to payers.
- Use team guidelines and best practices, compliance requirements, and own judgment to determine whether client requests should be implemented in the billing rules engine.
- Document client and payer requirements using team standards.
- Synthesize large amounts of complex information into clear logic statements.
- Design solutions that meet quality goals.
- Collaborate with colleagues, including developers, to create high-quality billing rule engine updates that meet client needs and payer guidelines.
- Define and execute test plans to validate that technical solutions meet client needs.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Participate in case retrospective reviews to learn from experiences.
- Support teammates by sharing your process and subject matter expertise.
- Participate in team-wide efforts to improve knowledge management and training.
- Ability to identify and resolve completed problems.
Typical Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 5-7 years of experience in a fast-paced environment
- Previous experience in healthcare RCM environment, mandatory
- Proven ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written communication
- Interest in solving complex Healthcare billing problems
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, OneNote
- Demonstrates analytical thinking: a systematic, logical approach to managing complex, high volumes and/or contradictory information
- Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail
- Manage multiple projects with competing priorities
- Clearly frame a problem statement, research, and troubleshoot
- Clearly communicate complex industry requirements to clients
- Anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
- Comfortable learning new programs/tools/applications
- Ability to instruct others, especially peers and clients to explain process workflow concepts
- Proven ability to work both independently on projects and as part of a larger team
- Flexibility to take on new tasks and challenges
About athenahealth
- Our Vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
- Our Location: This role will be based in Chennai, India. Our Global Headquarters is located in Watertown, MA, just a few miles from Boston. We have two other India locations in Bengaluru and Pune.
- Our Culture: At athenahealth, our employees (or “athenistas”) are committed to making healthcare smarter. Our success is dependent on the diversity, collective spirit, and contributions of our people, clients and partners. We value teamwork and believe that the strength of our team comes from supporting each other and leveraging our specialized skills. If you are looking for acompany that will enable you to work outside of your comfort zone to transform the healthcare ecosystem, athenahealth is the place for you.
- Our Perks: Along with health & financial benefits, our athenistas are offered a variety of perks that promote employee wellbeing such as commuter support, collaborative workspaces and dog-friendly offices - just to name a few.
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.