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Lead Financial Services Representative

Northwell Health

Melville, NYJob$44–69K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$44–69K/yr
Location
Melville, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Lead Financial Services Representative guides financial services staff and helps patients understand their financial obligations. The role includes advising patients, processing payments, maintaining collection logs, and ensuring accurate billing-system entries. It also supports staff training, technology and procedure improvements, schedule monitoring, issue resolution, and recommendations to management. The position requires 5–7 years of relevant experience and an associate’s degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient Financial CounselingPayment ProcessingInsurance VerificationPatient Call HandlingStaff LeadershipTechnology TestingProcess ImprovementReal-Time MonitoringStatistical AnalysisWork Assignment

Qualifications

5+ Years Relevant ExperienceAssociate's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Full job description

Req Number 201838

Job Description

Leads and guides Financial Services Representatives in the performance of duties, ensuring patients understand their financial obligations and necessary information is accurately entered into the billing system. Advise and counsel patients on financial responsibility, process payments, and maintain collection logs. Provides exceptional customer service, creating a seamless and efficient experience for patients.

Job Responsibility

  1. Perform all functions of the Financial Services Representative, including answering inbound and outbound patient calls, verifying insurance coverage, documenting patient information, and arranging alternative payment methods

  2. Lead and guide Associate Financial Services Representatives, Financial Services Representatives, and Senior Financial Services Representatives in the performance of their duties

  3. Serve as a subject matter expert to support the testing and enhancement of new technologies, projects, and procedures

  4. Use procedures, policy manuals, and other reference materials to assist in answering employee and manager inquiries and resolving issues

  5. Participate in training new team members and ongoing educational programs for existing staff

  6. Support supervisor with Real-Time Monitoring to ensure team members are adhering to their designed schedules, providing guidance to achieve departmental objectives

  7. Identify abnormal events or consistent problem areas using qualitative feedback and statistical data to recommend methods to improve processes, procedures, and technologies

  8. Works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial, escalate issues to the leaders as necessary

  9. Makes recommendations to management on new processes, tools and techniques, or development of new products and services

  10. Collaborates with senior team members in the development of methods, techniques and analytical approach

  11. Provides work guidance, including checking and assigning work, to ensure accurate and timely completion of tasks

  12. Perform related duties as required, ensuring all responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here but considered related are not essential functions

Job Qualification

  1. 5-7 years of relevant experience, required.

  2. Associate's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

The salary range for this position is $44450.00-$69340.00/year

It is Northwell Health’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all applicants and employees equally regardless of their age, race, creed/religion, color, national origin, immigration status or citizenship status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital or familial status, partnership status, victim of domestic violence, sexual or other reproductive health decisions, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 9,229 open Team Lead jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$44–69K/yr
  • New York median$107–140K/yr194 salary ranges
  • US median$110–178K/yr2,245 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $57K, is 54% below the New York median midpoint ($124K) — in the lowest quarter of Team Lead salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 478 open Team Lead jobs in New York and 9,229 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Team Lead postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (3,992 postings).
Education
1,479 of the 9,229 open Team Lead jobs (16%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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