Hospital Accountant at Lagos Executive Cardiovascular Clinic

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Job Description

The hospital accountant is required to handle the financial aspect of LECC. From there, she/he oversees every area of finance, billing, claims reimbursement, financial books preparation, debt reconciliation as well as general healthcare financing knowledge.

She/he needs to know the following responsibilities in accounting: preparing financial papers for internal and external vendors, write monthly reports to determine whether the financial information generated are accurate, perform account receivable duties and assist with preparing the hospital’s budget.

Additional responsibilities include creating ledgers and financial analysis reports on selected hospital functions, ensuring that all transactions performed by the hospital are done accurately and efficiently, and prepare financial statements on a monthly basis.

Others include:

• Balancing patient accounts and taking payments for services rendered,
• Reviewing bills and claims for accurate information,
• Entering data into the company’s database,
• Handling incoming and outgoing email and physical mail,
• Maintaining and protecting employee payrolls,
• Maintaining all staff and patient files in the company’s database,
• Preparing billing reports and other documents to provide to state or federal government agencies as needed,
• Identifying and resolving problems and inaccuracies in date entries, and
• Extensively interacting with patients, physicians, policy representatives, and other people as necessary to collect payments.

The hospital accountant clerk will be required to perform other specialized clerical duties, as needed.