Accountant

Palomar Health Rehabilitation Hospital

Job Title: Accountant
Job Type: Full-time
Wage Range: $29-$40/hr

FLSA: Non-exempt

Your experience matters
At Palomar Health Rehabilitation Hospital, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities.

What we offer
Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus flexible-spending and health- savings accounts
• Competitive paid time off
• Income-protection programs, such as life, accident, critical-injury insurance, short-and long-term disability, and identity theft coverage
• Tuition reimbursement, loan assistance, and 401(k) matching
• Employee assistance program including mental, physical, and financial wellness
• Professional development and growth opportunities

How you'll contribute
The Accountant supports the organization's financial goals and objectives by ensuring the accurate and efficient management of patient demographic and financial data. Responsibilities include upfront collections, financial counseling, and data processing. The Accountant collaborates with the Central Business Office to verify the accuracy of information essential to the billing and collections process. This role adheres to established policies and procedures to ensure proper recording and posting of financial activity, helping to maintain accounts receivable levels appropriate to the organization's payer and acuity mix

Essential Functions:

• Accurately records and reports census and admission information.
• Serves as additional point of contact regarding benefit determination within departmental timelines.
• Performs upfront collections, financial counseling and data processing
• Ensures accurate capturing and posting of financial activity and maintains accounts receivable at amounts appropriate for payer and acuity mix.
• Actively works with the Utilization department to ensure pre-certifications, certifications, and appeals are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Corresponds effectively with commercial and managed care payers.
• Performs insurance benefit verification and financial counseling in a timely manner.
• Reviews deposits to ensure accuracy and balances cash daily.
• Ensures accurate records of financial transactions for the facility.
• Assists the Financial Counselor to ensure payments are received by clients.
• Displays fiscal responsibility.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelors Degree degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or similar is required.

Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience in accounts receivable at a healthcare facility and previous supervisory experience preferred.
• Three (3) to five (5) years' accounting experience plus knowledge of computerized accounting system, ability to work with detail, and good organizational skills, preferably in a healthcare setting.
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.