About the Role
The Health Operations Claims Specialist will play a key and collaborative role in the delivery of high-quality customer service to over 180,000 plan participants, supporting the 32BJ Health Fund’s mission of providing high-quality and low-cost health benefits. This position serves as a subject matter expert for claims-related inquiries and works closely with members, providers, vendors, and internal departments to ensure accurate and timely claims processing and resolution.
Responsibilities
- Maintain deep expertise of the Fund's covered benefits.
- Evaluate claims to determine if they are appropriately processed based on eligibility, provider contracting rules, and the Funds' plan design.
- Research claims and the third-party administrator's medical management policies to understand the impact against the Health Fund's plan specifications.
- Work with the third-party administrator's claims processing team to review eligibility, benefit design, and system processing issues.
- Support Health Fund management to identify and resolve plan design, member, provider, and appeal-related issues.
- Conduct member outreach to address and resolve claims-related inquiries.
- Communicate with facilities and providers regarding complex claims submissions, including requests for supporting documentation and claim resubmission.
- Self-assign CRM cases during high-volume periods.
- Identify and resolve potential/actual claims problems and document root cause analysis; present findings to management and create formal reports for upper leadership.
- Maintain detailed information on claims issues and ensure that appropriate and comprehensive data is tracked and updated timely.
- Improve quality, enhance workflows, identify opportunities for improvements and interdepartmental efficiencies and develop and present recommendations for changes.
- Collaborate with vendors and clinical partners to troubleshoot claims issues.
- Conduct member outreach for claims inquiry resolution.
- Contact facilities and providers regarding complex claims submissions and the need for required documentation and/or claim resubmission.
- Effectively utilize the Fund's member/employer database to research and verify member's eligibility, benefits, and communications.
- Provide additional support as directed by senior leadership and management.
Requirements
- 2+ years of work experience in health insurance claims, claims operations, or health billing required.
- Extensive knowledge of claim processing policies and procedures, including hospital/medical claims, understanding the basics of ICD-10 coding, CPT codes, HCPCS codes, DRG coding, place of service, provider IDs (TINS, NPIs), amounts paid, and out-of-pocket costs.
- Strong knowledge of medical terminology, ICD/CPT coding, per diem and DRG reimbursement required.
- Prior knowledge with healthcare regulations and claims compliance requirements preferred.
- Excellent verbal, written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to identify trends and recommend process improvements.
- Experience accurately interpreting information from contractual and technical perspectives.
- Ability to work on multiple projects with competing priority levels.
- Proficiency with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion when handling sensitive information.
- Effective communicator with experience partnering with senior leaders and external partners.
- High degree of professionalism, integrity, and accountability.
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, quality improvement, and operational excellence.
- Strong actively listening skills, attention to detail and commitment to accuracy when reviewing claims, documentation, and benefit information.
- Ability to work independently while contributing to team objectives.
Skills
- ICD-10 coding
- CPT codes
- HCPCS codes
- DRG coding
- Medical terminology
- MS Office
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- High School Diploma
- GED
About the Company
- Building Services 32BJ Benefit Funds (“the Funds”) is the umbrella organization responsible for administering Health, Pension, Retirement Savings, Training, and Legal Services benefits to over 185,000 SEIU 32BJ members.
- Our mission is to make significant contributions to the lives of our members by providing high quality benefits and services.
- Through our commitment, we embody five core values: Flexibility, Initiative, Respect, Sustainability, and Teamwork (FIRST).
- The Funds oversees and manages $11 billion of dollars in assets, which are made up of many, varied and complex funds.
- 32BJ Benefit Funds will continue to drive innovation, equity, and technology insights to further help the lives of our hard-working members and their families.
- We use cutting edge technology such as: M365, Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, AWS, SQL, Snowflake, QlikView, and more.
