Medical billing clerk
The job of a medical billing clerk
The medical billing clerk is an administrative employee in charge of preparing and following up invoices issued for the procedures performed by the clinic or by a particular department (hospitalisation, consultations and outpatient procedures, medical imaging, etc.).
To do this, the clerk manages the records created during the patient’s admission, controls the patient’s rights under compulsory health schemes and to health insurance, verifies the procedures undertaken by the practitioners in the various departments and integrates these into the patient’s records, ensuring that they are complete.
The clerk also issues invoices when the patient is discharged (in coordination with the relevant office), forwards these invoices to the institutions that will pay them and deals with any eventual rejections. Throughout the process, the clerk controls all the necessary elements in accordance with the procedure set up by the billing manager.
What skills are required?
Comfortable with numbers or from an accounting background, a medical billing clerk should have a strong understanding of:
- The invoicing chain
- How the clinic operates
- How the various departments function
- The coding of procedures
- Social Security and mutual insurance regulations
- Invoicing procedures.
A medical billing clerk has to be organised, rigorous, autonomous and easily able to adapt. In constant contact with a vast number of people, the clerk generally possesses excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrates good team spirit. They should also be comfortable with office and business-specific software.
