Medical Accounts/Admin Clerk, Bellville, Cape Town

A General Surgeon, based in Bellville, Cape Town is seeking to recruit a Medical Accounts/Admin Clerk to assist with Debt Collections for a very busy practice. Experience within a medical practice is a non-negotiable requirement. Surgical practice experience will be advantageous.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Capture remittance statements received from the medical aids
• Capture patient payments and receipting
• Liaise with the medical aids regarding non-payments and rejections
• Attend to outstanding accounts from medical aids and patients
• Ensure a healthy debtors book and that the age analysis is below a certain percentage target
• Liaise with the practice manager regarding outstanding debts
• Send out patient statements
• Send statements to insurance companies for payments for medical reports
• No billing of invoices is required, only debt collecting
• Assist senior receptionist as and when required
• Assist Dr with requests for information from various medical sources
• Send out reports to referring doctors
• Assist with the admin to ensure the patients and billing process runs smoothly

Qualification and Requirements:

• Matric
• VeriClaim software and general software knowledge is preferable
• Medical debtors experience is preferable
• Experience within a private medical practice is essential

Skills and attributes:

• Ability to work independently and unsupervised
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
• Hardworking
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize
• Computer literacy and high attention to detail

Work Hours:

Monday to Friday, 08h00 - 17h00

Start date:

ASAP

Only candidates who meet all the minimum requirements stipulated in the advert, will be considered. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of your application, please consider your application as unsuccessful.