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Patient Accounts Representative

Medical Associates

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ID: o1UYxfwa

Posted On 09/30/2025

Job Overview

Description

Medical Associates Clinic is hiring a **Patient Accounts Representative** to join the Business Office team! This position is responsible for the collection of delinquent patient accounts and counseling patients. Previous collection or credit counseling experience is preferred, in addition to customer service experience in an office setting.

What Skills You Bring:

+ Outstanding communication skills

+ Ability to handle difficult conversations with tact and empathy

+ Ability to navigate multiple computer systems

+ Enjoys working autonomously and with a team

+ Professional, responsible and trusted to get things done

**Schedule:** Full time, Monday - Friday, between the office hours of 7:00am - 5:00pm. This is a fully in office position.

Benefits Package Includes:

+ Single or Family Health Insurance with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation.

+ 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay + additional annual Profit Sharing)

+ Flexible Paid Time Off Program (24 days off/year)

+ Medical and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts

+ Life insurance, Long Term Disability Coverage, Short Term Disability Coverage, Dental Insurance, etc.

What You'll Be Doing:

+ Interview patients to arrange method of payment or extension of credit.

+ Evaluate patients' financial status and credit history and determine payment based on patient's ability to pay according to clinic policy.

+ Identify and resolve patient billing questions and complaints.

+ Review accounts for possible assignment to collection agency, make recommendations to Manager of Patient Accounts, and prepare information for collection agency.

+ Complete all other assigned projects and duties.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Experience: One to three years of similar or related experience.

Education: Equivalent to a high school diploma or GED.

Interpersonal Skills: A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others.

Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Repetitive Motions - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Environmental Conditions:

None - The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in typical office or administrative work).

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP https://www.eeoc.gov/poster

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Job Details

Categories

Banking/Mortgage/Financial Services

Health Care

Location

Dubuque, IA

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

1148

Job REQ #

o1UYxfwa

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250930

End Date

20251110

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Medical Associates

About the Company

_Our mission is to provide superior healthcare and an excellent patient experience._

Medical Associates Clinic is a well-established multispecialty group practice with over 170 providers and a staff of over 1,000 health care professionals and support personnel. The group was founded in 1924 and is Iowa’s oldest multispecialty group practice. Today, Medical Associates Clinic is the area’s leading health care provider and only multispecialty group practice. Medical Associates Clinic has been recognized since 1998 as a “better performing practice” by the Medical Group Management Association.

In 1982, Medical Associates developed the Tri-State’s first health maintenance organization, Medical Associates Health Plans, which offers comprehensive health benefits to over 400 employers and 45,000 members. Medical Associates Health Plans has maintained an “Excellent” rating, the highest level of accreditation possible by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, for 13 consecutive years.

Medical Associates Clinic offers several locations from which to seek medical care, including facilities at 1500 Associates Drive, 1000 Langworthy, and 4155 Pennsylvania Ave in Dubuque, Iowa; as well as facilities in Bellevue, Cascade, Dyersville, Iowa; Cuba City, Lancaster, Platteville, Wisconsin; and Galena, Illinois.