Refund Clerk
City of Hope
Irwindale, CA
Job posting number: #7311994 (Ref:10030095)
Posted: July 4, 2025
Salary / Pay Rate: $22.07 - $31.11 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Summary:
To efficiently resolve credit balances by thoroughly analyzing, calculating and identifying true refunds.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Review and analyze insurance and patient refund requests received.
- Able to calculate expected reimbursement based on payor contracts and assess true overpayments.
- Prepares all necessary documentation to support the refund requests.
- Ensures that all approved refunds are logged and reconciled with the Finance Department.
- Post all approved refunds in the patient ledger.
- Responds timely and accurately to all incoming related refund calls and correspondence inquiries from payers, patients and other authorized parties.
- Maintains the undistributed account balance to minimum dollar threshold as required per department policies.
Organizational Expectations:
- Demonstrates behavior that supports the City of Hope Medical Foundation’s mission.
- Attends required orientation and training seminars.
- Meets production standards within established time requirements.
- Work product and performance meets quality standards.
- Demonstrates respect and positive interpersonal skills with patients, clients, the public, managers, and co-workers—a team player.
- Maintains confidentiality of patient care and business matters.
- Observes time, attendance, and dress code standards.
- Protects the safety of others and of the physical plant and equipment, following institution policies, fire, safety and infection control regulations.
Your qualifications should include:
- High School diploma
- Two (2) to five (5) years’ experience in Revenue Cycle healthcare; hospital, medical group or Independent Practice Association (IPA).
- Has thorough knowledge of HMO, PPO, POS coverage rules
Additional Information:
- There are 2 positions available
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $22.07 - $31.11 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.