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Service Authorization Technician Job Summary:

Monday-Friday: 8:00AM-4:30PM with One (1) Day WFH

Service Authorization Technician Salary:

$32,000.00- $35,000.00

COMHAR's Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) is located in the Philadelphia are. IBHS support children, youth, and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. Services are provide to children, youth, and young adults across all settings (at the home, school, and community settings) in order to both help them reduce and/or replace problem behaviors with more positive, socially appropriate behaviors, with the highest priority placed on family engagement throughout the process.

Service Authorization Technician Job Summary:

Service Authorization Technician reports to the Office Manager of Children's Services. The Service Authorization Technician will be responsible for admitting clients by gathering and recording provider, client, and insurance information. The Service Authorization Technician oversees pre-authorization and referrals process for the IBHS program.

Service Authorization Technician Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Office Manager, this position's primary is responsible for ensuring that billing authorizations are correctly inputted into EHR system
• Improve the proficiency of receiving and correcting authorizations for services.
• Track Discharges and enter into EHR
• Pre-admits clients by receiving referrals from a number of sources; entering client information into the referral module in EHR system.
• Run initial eligibility through Promise for client.
• Uploading and Downloading CBH authorizations.
• Developing and monitoring authorization reports that are reviewed with Office Manager.
• Tracking and correcting authorizations for proper length and number of units.
• Meet weekly with CBH Care Manager to discuss authorization correction list.
• Documenting to ensure that the service hours & units match what was requested.
• Process contractor and temp agencies invoices.
• Ensures a responsive system for authorization of services and payment of claims by monitoring the COMHAR billing system for laps in service as well as rejections and error logs
• Processing of referrals and invoices

Service Authorization Technician Requirement:

• High school diploma or GED
• 2 years' experience in an office setting
• Proficient with Microsoft office software
• Understanding of basic accounting, and personnel management.
• Experience with billing and insurance
• Knowledgeable with EHR Systems

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace. COMHAR, Inc. is a not-for-profit community based health and human service organization founded in 1975. We do not discriminate in services or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, past or present receipt of disability-related services or supports, marital status, veteran status, or any other class of persons protected by federal, state or local law.

Compensation details: 32000-35000 Yearly Salary

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