Quality Auditor (Remote, Remote, US)
Job Description – Auditor (HB & PB) Role Auditor – Hospital Billing (HB) & Professional Billing (PB) Role Summary Responsible for auditing Hospital Billing (HB) and Professional Billing (PB) accounts with focus on technical and clinical denials, insurance follow-up workflows, Workers’ Compensation (WC), and Third-Party Liability (TPL) processes to ensure accuracy, compliance, and optimal reimbursement.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform end-to-end audits of HB and PB accounts including billing, denials, and AR follow-up activities
- Review and validate technical denials such as:
- Eligibility issues
- Demographic errors
- Duplicate claims
- Timely filing denials
- Authorization issues
- Provider/NPI-related denials
- Review and validate clinical denials such as:
- Medical necessity
- Diagnosis-procedure linkage
- Level of care
- Non-covered services
- Documentation-related denials
- Audit insurance follow-up activities including:
- Claim status review
- Denial handling
- Appeals
- Underpayment follow-up
- Review and evaluate WC and TPL claims including:
- Liability handling
- Coordination of benefits
- Documentation validation
- Validate coding-related denial scenarios involving CPT, ICD-10, modifiers, and payer edits
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and identify denial/error trends
- Provide actionable feedback and coaching inputs to operations teams
- Ensure compliance with payer guidelines, CMS regulations, and client SOPs
- Participate in internal/client calibration sessions
- Maintain audit accuracy and productivity SLAs
Quality & Governance
- Execute random and targeted audits
- Ensure audit consistency and inter-rater reliability (IRR)
- Track defect trends, denial patterns, and recovery opportunities
- Support denial prevention and process improvement initiatives
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred (Healthcare/RCM preferred)
- Certifications preferred: AAPC (CPC/COC) / AHIMA
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
- Strong exposure to both:
- Hospital Billing (HB)
- Professional Billing (PB)
- Experience in:
- Denials management (technical & clinical)
- Insurance follow-up
- Appeals handling
- WC and TPL workflows
- Audit / QA activities preferred
- Experience with preferred
Skills
- Strong understanding of payer guidelines and billing workflows
- Knowledge of CPT, ICD-10, modifiers, and denial workflows
- Analytical thinking and RCA capability
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to identify process gaps and drive quality improvements
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