Description: Job Summary:

To work as a team member of the California Service Center (CSC) which is the Membership Accounting and Contracts Administration functions for the California Division. The overall objectives of this position is to perform the account maintenance, billing, reconciliation, reporting and customer service related activities. Duties also include performing database maintenance and research tasks to support the contracts administration, cash control operations and assignment of medical record numbers, to generate and distribute contracts and member I.D. cards, to provide facilities support and to enter documents into the workflow imaging system.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Identifying, researching and reconciling billing payments amounts to ensure accurate eligibility determination, payment, revenue and membership records.


• Setting up and maintaining member data including but not limited to processing enrollments, corrections, retroactivity adjustments and terminations.


• Supporting eligibility inquiries.


• Ensuring bills are correct and mailed timely.


• Interacting with purchaser benefit administrators to answer questions and explain Health Plan policy and contractual provisions related to membership and billing.


• Resolving related problems.


• Assisting Health Plan purchaser contacts and sales and service representatives in the sales process and the analysis and resolution of problems related to membership accounting.


• Conducting audits of purchasers with large payment variances, unallocated payments or other specified criteria.


• Resolving payment discrepancies and delinquencies.


• Ensuring purchasers compliance with Health Plan policies and contractual provisions.


• Preparing reports and managing purchaser correspondence.


• Receiving, entering data, reviewing, researching balancing, and applying daily purchaser deposits and sources from the bank in a timely and accurate fashion.


• Assisting with the production and distribution of payment-related reports required by purchasers and management, and by operating and maintaining printers and other related peripheral equipment.


• Supporting Medicare processing and reporting requirements.


• Ensuring that changes to contracts are quickly and accurately updated in the contract systems.


• Assisting with the production and distribution of contracts and related notices for new and renewing purchasers and individuals.


• Answering, researching, issuing and resolving problems related to medical records numbers (MRN) and performing any required follow up activities on a 24 hour per day, 7 day a week basis.


• Processing purchasers eligibility reported electronically by coordinating the exchange of media with groups and Information Services, resolving problems, maintaining and operating related equipment and maintaining supporting logs/records.


• Identifying, coding, batching, scanning and indexing documents for imaging.


• Providing office services support including but not limited to picking up, sorting and delivering mail, filing and retrieving documents, ordering and distributing office supplies, performing miscellaneous facilities maintenance tasks and providing photocopying and copier maintenance.


• Working with internal and external customers and vendors to resolve any issues related to support services activities.


• Collecting and monitoring productivity and customer service quality measures.


• Participating team-based projects and contributing to customer service and operations improvements initiatives.


• Assisting with training as required.


• Facilitating communications across all lines of business and with other Kaiser Permanente departments.


• Participating in purchasers performance evaluations and performance target setting activities.


• Perform other duties as they are assigned.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience

• N/A.

Education

• N/A.

License, Certification, Registration

• N/A

Additional Requirements:

• Proficiency in math, data entry, typing, spelling and grammar, for which test are required.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team-based environment.
• Successful customer service track record.
• Ability to diagnose, analyze and solve a variety of quantitative and qualitative problems.
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally.
• Computer experience preferably in a PC windows based environment.
• Willing to learn new tasks and adapt to new business requirements.
• Excellent conflict resolution and decision making capabilities.
• Ability to work productively at multiple tasks.
• Ability to adapt to change and be flexible in shifting priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of two (2) years experience in accounting, finance or related field preferred.
• Experience with operations of peripheral equipment, such as printers or magnetic tape equipment, and knowledge of operating systems commands such as MVS/ESA and JES2 mainframe application, and tape management systems preferred.
• Experience with mainframe application and computer transaction processing preferred

Primary Location: California,San Diego,California Service Center
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Remote
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B06|OPEIU|Local 30
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: California Service Center No.1 - CSC-Directpayaccount - 0315
Pay Range: $28.51 - $30.93 / hour The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: No
Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente 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 (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest

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