HOSPITAL BILLING ASSISTANT

Description

Job Summary: Hospital Infantil de Fortaleza is seeking a professional to perform routine billing activities, including medical billing, invoice issuance, and production monitoring. Key Highlights: 1. Perform routine hospital billing activities. 2. Issue invoices and close billing forms. 3. Monitor production and needs of the Health Unit. Hospital Infantil de Fortaleza Dra. Lúcia de Fátima Ribeiro Guimarães Sá is part of the Municipal Network of Medium-Complexity Secondary Care Hospitals, providing children and adolescents with 24-hour clinical emergency, urgent care, and inpatient services, including reception and risk classification. Children and adolescents (aged 2 months to 17 years) are served at this unit. **Responsibilities and Duties** Perform routine billing activities, such as medical billing, materials, medications, and others. Issue invoices, close billing forms, and record entries. Monitor production, as well as organize and track the Health Unit’s needs. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related fields; * Minimum of 6 months’ experience in hospital billing within the SUS (Unified Health System); **Additional Information** * Full-time position (40 hours/week; Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM) * Experience in analyzing claim denials and appeals; * Knowledge of SUS production indicators; Professionals from partner companies, suppliers, and/or service providers — including those with familial or affinity ties within the same service or under other contractual arrangements (e.g., contracts with service providers) — must comply with current HR regulations, verified through consultation with the Recruitment and Selection Department. **SPDM – Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina** is a non-profit, philanthropic civil association, federally, state-, and municipally recognized as being of public utility, respectively by Decrees No. 57.925 of 03/04/1966, 40.103 of 05/17/1962, and 8.911 of 07/30/1970. The Institution operates at federal, state, and municipal levels, in alignment with national health and education policies, and also functions as an authorized Social Organization in several states, managing health services and institutions through agreements and management contracts. The Association’s primary directive is its integration into the health system, focused on disease treatment, prevention, and promotion of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care, strengthening local community ties and reaffirming its social commitment to serving all individuals without discrimination. With institutional growth, SPDM has expanded its scope of action through ongoing projects in Social Assistance and Education. This broad range of activities increasingly consolidates SPDM as a large-scale philanthropic institution committed to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Its four Superintendencies — Hospital São Paulo, Affiliated Institutions, **Programa de Atenção Integral à Saúde (PAIS)**, and Education — are managed by highly skilled professionals with outstanding technical expertise. Thus, SPDM contributes effectively to the continuous improvement of services provided by Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS), primarily aiming to ensure universality and equitable access to health care, essential for human and social development. To achieve this, SPDM combines cutting-edge technology with high-quality medical care delivered by multidisciplinary teams composed of nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, speech-language pathologists, biochemists, psychologists, technologists, social workers, dentists, and others. **The Programa de Atenção Integral à Saúde (PAIS)** began operations in 2001 in the municipality of São Paulo and later expanded to other municipalities and states. Since its inception, **PAIS** has partnered with public management to strengthen and consolidate health services offered to SUS users. PAIS aims to improve population health indicators and quality of life, grounded — among other principles — in comprehensiveness and equity, guided by a strategic vision of health service management defined through a process of continuous improvement. ### **Inclusion** SPDM offers employment opportunities across its hospital units, including career development plans, for people with disabilities. To this end, it periodically publishes job announcements recruiting such professionals in major newspapers in São Paulo and in municipalities where its units are located. **Mission** To promote integrated health actions in partnership with public management, ethically and humanely benefiting the population, with technical excellence, social and environmental responsibility. **Vision** To be a reference in health service management across all levels of care, ensuring high-quality care for populations in partner municipalities and states. **Values** * Professionalism * Quality * Social Responsibility * Teamwork * Ethics