Entry Level PIP/Medical Payment Adjuster
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Houston, Texas
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Nov 26, 2019
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- Category
- Claims, Entry Level
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Allstate Insurance has an exciting opportunity as a Person Injury Protection / Medical Payment Adjuster in Houston, TX!
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Service
- Makes and maintains a connection with the customer by understanding and meeting their needs; serves the customer with empathy; and follows up to ensure that customer needs have been met
File Documentation and Reporting
- Summarizes documents and enters into claim system notes
- Documents a claim file with notes, evaluations and decision making process
- Processes medical bills and recognizes medical management opportunities
Medical Management (1st Party)
- Assesses medical/physical condition and prior injuries of claimant, and obtains and analyzes medical bills, wage loss reviews, home service or attendant care, mileage payments and other related claims in determining reasonableness of charges and relation of injuries to accident, and to ensure compliance with fee schedules, and detect duplicate billing
- Conducts first party file processing/fact gathering, including interviewing claimant, witnesses, medical providers, etc.
- Evaluates medical records and treatment plan of claimant and determines if continued treatment is reasonable
- Investigates, reviews and accepts or rejects coverage and other potential coverage
- Determines appropriate benefit and settles basic claims, including resolution of basic usual and customary billings
- Monitors treatment and benefit payments for excessive, unreasonable, or abusive claims
Job Qualifications
- Bachelors degree preferred and/or Medical Coding Certification
- At least 2 years of customer service experience in an office environment
- Experienced with handling heavy call volume
- Interact effectively with internal or external customers and act with empathy
- Ability to investigate, evaluate, negotiate and settle basic claims
- Knowledge of claim processes, policies, procedures, claim systems, coverage, liability, damage estimating, and/or settlement, and adherence to applicable legal compliance standards
- Ability to apply industry knowledge to discipline practices, including best practices, to support the business unit
- Ability to leverage learned technical skills in support of team objectives
- Conflict management and problem resolution skills in managing internal and external customer relationships
- Provides individual decision making within authority limits
- Has and maintains all appropriate licenses and registrations for the role per state requirements
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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