Billing Clerk – Short-term

7 May 2026 Billing Clerk – Short-term at Mary Begg Health Services

• Receive, assist and direct patients and their families, visitors and health care professionals in a courteous, efficient, and welcoming manner projecting a positive, friendly, and professional image. • Deal with enquiries from staff, patients, visitors, and other health professionals promptly and courteously. • Assist clients or family members in completing required payment/billing information. Answer all questions the client may have concerning invoice payments. Refer to the unit leader for any issues you are unable to make clear. • Verify patients’ insurance or company medical coverage plan to facilitate accurate billing. • Ensure that all consumables/medications used by the patient/client are itemised on the patients’ billing sheet to generate an accurate patient invoice. Clarify with clinical/nursing/medical staff if patient billing sheets are incomplete and ensure the correct items/services are billed for. • Reconciliation of unused medications and consumables from ward patients on their discharge. • Ensure that daily billing sheets are handed on time by front office/nursing staff so that all patient bills are processed on the same day. Ensure that client accounts are topped up as necessary. • All corporate patient/client invoices must contain the main member’s mine number or Med-emass number, for easy invoicing. • Print out patient bills (for private paying patients) and collect payment. Provide a receipt for all cash payments collected. • Review and appeal unpaid and denied claims. • Work directly with the corporate clients, healthcare providers, and patients to get bills processed and paid on time. • Work with the finance department concerning lost receipts, receipts for insurance purposes, refunds, daily deposits of cash, credit card receipts, cheques, and credit problems and accounts receivables. • Receive copy of deposit slips for private paying patients. Reconcile cash received against the daily cash register. Fill in a cash deposit slip and send money to the bank. • Enter the amount deposited in the accounting system. • Maintain work operations by following policies and procedures.