The Billing Analyst

Have you ever thought about how hard it is to be in the medical field? How to analyze companies payer accounts receivables, ensuring reimbursement matches and decipher billing errors using software to help stop loss prevention? A recent interview I had with Interpath Laboratories lead insurance payer reimbursement analyst, Aimee Hulce, does all of that every week day. She stated the reason why she chose this job was because it was  stable and less potential of layoffs. I chose this woman because without her job, our bills and medical field would be a mess.

As we got further into the conversation, I asked her what requirements you’re supposed to meet. She declared, “5-8 years of experience, understanding of government payer contracts, and understanding of how to read raw data files.”

Likewise, she told me that the schooling requirement was a high school diploma and a college medical coding course. Soon, Aimee got into the skills she used on a daily basis so I asked her some tips that people can take going into this field and she stated, “Complete the medical coding course and be an analytical thinker as in being able to take a problem and think up of different solutions like you would in math.”

These tips gave me a little insight on how she is able to keep up with her job and stay focused throughout the day.

Besides requirements and schooling, Aimee gave me a little more background information about her and her job. “ I have been doing this job for eight years. When I was younger, I always wanted to be a juvenile counselor but circumstances led me this direction. A.K.A. kids.”

While I was asking her numerous questions, I happened to stumble upon the question what is the worst and best thing about her job. After she thought about it for a little bit she said, “The worst thing about my job is the constant changing of government requirements and the best thing is that I never get bored with work.”

After this, our interview came to an end.

To conclude, I took the most out of what I was taught. I learned more about billing and Aimee taught me about codes and what goes on in her building. I'll take in this study towards my future because I want to be in the medical field when I’m older and most of this information helped for down the road.