Core Clinical Partners stands at the forefront of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, delivering unparalleled services through a model that emphasizes patient-centric care and operational excellence. Our corporate values – Genuine, Accountable, Dynamic, Respectful, and Fun – are the pillars that uphold our commitment to revolutionize healthcare delivery.
The Cash Posting Coordinator is responsible for leading the day-to-day cash posting function and ensuring payments are accurately and timely posted, balanced, reconciled, and managed in accordance with revenue cycle policies and payer requirements. This role serves as a key resource for the Cash Posting team, supporting operational performance, identifying process improvement opportunities, and maintaining the integrity of cash application and account balances.
Essential Duties:
Cash Posting & Reconciliation
- Oversee and perform accurate posting of insurance, patient, electronic, and manual payments to patient accounts.
- Ensure payments, adjustments, recoupments, and denials are posted accurately and to the appropriate accounts.
- Monitor daily cash posting activity to ensure timely and accurate application of cash.
- Perform daily and monthly cash balancing and reconciliation between bank deposits, remittance files, clearinghouse activity, and the patient accounting system.
- Research and resolve posting discrepancies, unidentified payments, and out-of-balance conditions.
- Monitor unapplied and unidentified cash and ensure timely resolution.
Credit Balance Management
- Lead the credit balance review process, identifying accounts with potential overpayments or credit balances.
- Research credit balances to determine the appropriate resolution, including transfers, corrections, refunds, or recoupments.
- Coordinate with other RCM departments to resolve account issues contributing to credit balances.
- Monitor credit balance aging and ensure timely resolution in accordance with organizational policies and payer requirements.
Cash Posting Rules & System Management
- Own and maintain cash posting rules, ensuring they accurately reflect payer remittance and contractual requirements.
- Identify opportunities to automate posting and reduce manual intervention.
- Partner with IT, billing, and system vendors to troubleshoot and implement cash posting rule changes.
- Test new or modified posting rules and validate results.
- Monitor rule performance and identify trends that may result in incorrect posting.
Team Leadership & Quality
- Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for the Cash Posting team.
- Provide guidance, training, and support to team members on complex posting and reconciliation issues.
- Review work for accuracy and identify opportunities for additional training or process improvement.
- Monitor team productivity, quality, and turnaround-time metrics.
- Assist with workload prioritization and resource allocation to meet department goals.
Reporting & Process Improvement
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators related to cash posting, including posting turnaround time, accuracy, unapplied cash, credit balances, and reconciliation variances.
- Identify trends and root causes impacting cash application and revenue cycle performance.
- Recommend and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, accuracy, and cash visibility.
- Maintain and update SOPs, workflows, and cash posting policies.
- Support system implementations, payer changes, acquisitions, and other RCM initiatives impacting cash posting.
- Assist with the identification, investigation, and resolution of payments issued to incorrect providers, addresses, or banking information, coordinating corrective actions with payors and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA transaction standards, CMS requirements, and applicable federal and state regulations governing electronic healthcare transactions.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:
- Strong knowledge of healthcare revenue cycle management, cash posting, payment application, and account reconciliation.
- Working knowledge of hospital and physician billing, payer remittances, EOBs/ERAs, contractual adjustments, recoupments, and refunds.
- Ability to accurately interpret 835/ERA transactions, EOBs, payment information, and payer-specific requirements.
- Strong understanding of cash reconciliation and balancing processes, including identifying and resolving variances.
- Knowledge of credit balance identification, research, resolution, and refund processes.
- Ability to develop, maintain, and troubleshoot cash posting rules and system configurations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research discrepancies and identify root causes.
- Ability to recognize trends and identify opportunities to improve cash application accuracy, efficiency, and automation.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and financial integrity.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet daily, monthly, and departmental deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a subject matter expert and escalation resource for complex cash posting issues.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with RCM, billing, coding, IT, payers, and external vendors.
- Ability to train and provide feedback to team members while promoting accountability and quality.
- Proficiency with patient accounting/billing systems, clearinghouses, Microsoft Excel, and other revenue cycle technology.
- Ability to analyze operational reports and KPIs to identify performance trends and improvement opportunities.
- Ability to create and maintain SOPs, workflows, and process documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to participate in system implementations, testing, process changes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to work independently while effectively supporting a team.
Core Clinical Partners is an equal opportunity employer, drug-free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Education:
- High school diploma or GED required.
Experience:
- 3–5+ years of healthcare revenue cycle or cash posting experience.
- Prior experience in a lead, senior, or supervisory role.
- Experience with automated cash posting, 835/ERA processing, and posting-rule configuration.
- Experience with credit balance management and payer reconciliation.
Work Location:
- Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days a week in office. When working remotely, the employee must have reliable access to internet.