Ancillary Charge Specialist **Medical Associates** 1 Positions ID: oXBvvfwi Posted On 03/04/2025 **Job Overview** **Description** Medical Associates is looking for an **Ancillary Charge Specialist** to join our team! **Schedule:** During training, this position will work in-office M-F, 8am-5pm. After successful completion of training and consistently being able to meet productivity goals, this position will have the opportunity to work **4 10-hour days or 5 8-hour days from home!** **Main Job Functions:** + Code outpatient ancillary services such as Anesthesia, Laboratory, Physical Therapy, and Radiology utilizing proper CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10 guidelines. + Review system claims scrubber reports, making modifications and corrections to identified charges based on department and payor policies. + Provide provider educational opportunities identified while reviewing documentation and/or claim scrubber edits. + Assist the insurance department in the correction of insurance denials for ancillary services utilizing resources available from Medicare and other sources provided by the clinic. Written policy allows the coder to make corrections to claims, independent of the provider, based on supporting documentation. + Assist clinical and ancillary staff by answering questions, providing them with information to assist them in correct coding and billing procedures. + Complete all other assigned projects and duties **Benefits Package Includes:** + Single or Family Health Insurance with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation. + 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay) + additional annual Profit Sharing + Flexible Paid Time Off Program (24 days off/year) + Medical and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts + Life insurance, Long Term Disability Coverage, Short Term Disability Coverage, Dental Insurance, etc. **Knowledge & Skills:** _Experience:_ One to three years of experience preferred. New graduates welcome to apply. _Education:_ Equivalent to a high school diploma. _Interpersonal Skills:_ A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary. _Other Skills:_ General computer knowledge with proficient keyboarding skills. Ability to work independently with limited direction, problem solving and resourcefulness. CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM coding. **Physical Aspects:** Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles. Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling. Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly. Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts. Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction. Repetitive Motions - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers. Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm) . Primary Contact 9878 Careers at Medical Associates , 563-584-4225 Phone Phone Phone Fax careers@mahealthcare.com Email True False True **Job Details** Categories Health Care Location Dubuque, IA Job Type Employee Full/Part Full Time Company ID 1148 Job REQ # oXBvvfwi \# Positions 1 Start Date 20250304 End Date 20250318 Featured Job TH Ad TH Comments **Similar Jobs** Charge Registered Nurse (RN) Operating Room MercyOne Administrative Specialist FT Days MercyOne **Share this Job** Medical Associates **About the Company** **_Our mission is to provide superior healthcare and an excellent patient experience._** Medical Associates Clinic is a well-established multispecialty group practice with over 170 providers and a staff of over 1,000 health care professionals and support personnel. The group was founded in 1924 and is Iowa’s oldest multispecialty group practice. Today, Medical Associates Clinic is the area’s leading health care provider and only multispecialty group practice. Medical Associates Clinic has been recognized since 1998 as a “better performing practice” by the Medical Group Management Association. In 1982, Medical Associates developed the Tri-State’s first health maintenance organization, Medical Associates Health Plans, which offers comprehensive health benefits to over 400 employers and 45,000 members. Medical Associates Health Plans has maintained an “Excellent” rating, the highest level of accreditation possible by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, for 13 consecutive years. Medical Associates Clinic offers several locations from which to seek medical care, including facilities at 1500 Associates Drive, 1000 Langworthy, and 4155 Pennsylvania Ave in Dubuque, Iowa; as well as facilities in Bellevue, Cascade, Dyersville, Iowa; Cuba City, and Platteville, Wisconsin; and Elizabeth and Galena, Illinois.