Medical Billing Data Specialist

At Athelas and Commure, we're bringing simple, life-changing health care products and medical billing services to people around the globe.

In addition to our established Remote Patient Monitoring business, we introduced a rapidly expanding SaaS Revenue Cycle Management solution in 2022 that provides revenue intelligence for hundreds of healthcare businesses from small clinics to large health systems. Our state-of-the-art dashboard, Athelas Insights, provides practices with an unparalleled understanding into their financial health to help them with all aspects of RCM, including eligibility, rejections, denials, as well as coding optimization and more.

To keep pace with our remarkable momentum - having seen a 5x increase in revenue over the past 6 months with more exponential growth on the horizon - we're actively seeking new, high-impact team members looking for a challenge!

Commure and Athelas have recently joined forces to form healthcare’s next-generation operating system. Through its pioneering AI-powered platform, the newly combined Commure gives time back to clinicians and staff at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. with easy-to-use clinical, financial, and operational solutions.

Together, we’re on a mission to connect, protect, and empower healthcare by developing groundbreaking and hyper-connected technologies. We believe deeply that by joining our many datasets and digital solutions together in harmony, we can solve our industry’s biggest challenges: improving the experiences of our care providers, bringing down the cost of care, and ensuring the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Combined, Commure and Athelas is backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Lux, Human Capital, 8VC, Greenoaks Capital and Elad Gil.

If you want to improve healthcare innovation through close partnerships between developers and doctors, come work with us!

Primary Responsibilities

As a Medical Billing Data Specialist, you will be responsible for business office duties related to claims and payment processing, collections and data entry. This includes:

• Tracks client accounts for accuracy. Assists clients with billing questions, as needed, in a professional and courteous manner.

• Acts as a resource for other staff throughout agency and assists in orientation of new staff

• Provide backup to others as needed.

Key Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Experience: 3+ years of medical billing experience.

  • Electronic and paper claim submission and medical billing experience

  • Knowledge of CPT, ICD-10, and HCPCS coding and third-party payor reimbursement methodologies, policies, and procedures.

• General accounting skills; ability to prepare billings, reconcile accounts receivable, and apply payments.

• Possess computer skills to efficiently operate accounts receivable software and to generate the proper reports needed.

• Strong attention to detail and have the ability to plan and organize work.

• Ability to communicate clearly, tactfully, and professionally to staff members and clients.

• Have flexibility to change, prioritize tasks, and work under pressure of meeting deadlines.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in OpenPM Software.

• Coding Certification, Health Information Management (HIM) degree.

Why You’ll Like Working with Athelas

• Execution focused, driven team: Join a team with an incredible record - we are the smallest, fastest company in history to receive FDA hematology clearance. We are also the largest Remote Patient Monitoring company in the US, with a fast-growing SaaS Revenue Cycle Management business as well

• Technology Focus: Revolutionizing how technology can be used in the healthcare industry

• Strong Backing: $132M Series B raised from the likes of Sequoia, General Catalyst, Tribe, Y Combinator

• Mission Driven: We are changing the way healthcare is provided, bringing it directly to the people who need it with technology-enabled solutions

• Incredible Growth: Revenue growth of 5x over the past 6 months and we're just getting started!

• Competitive Benefits: Unlimited PTO, medical, dental, vision, excellent maternity and paternity paid time off.

Athelas is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We are open to all backgrounds and levels of experience, and believe that great people can always find a place. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization.

Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.