Question 1

What is a Billing Specialist?

Accepted Answer

Typically, the main responsibility of a billing specialist is to ensure that they charge the customers appropriately, track and collect client, customer, or patient payments correctly and consistently.

A billing specialist will deal with accounts payable by managing and recording all company invoices.

Question 2

Billing specialist job responsibilities

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Billing specialists are involved with accounting, customer service, and general tasks that help maintain the business’s financial health. Some of these responsibilities include:

Processing incoming payments and performing a variety of financial and non-financial tasks
Receiving and managing incoming payments and identifying inconsistencies
Regularly update accounts receivable database
Creating invoices and sending them directly to a client or customer
Searching for payment errors or inconsistencies to ensure accurate billing

Question 3

Billing specialist job requirements and qualifications

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Although what skills, experience, and qualifications you need your billing specialists to have is entirely your decision. To help you, here are some examples that you might want to include in your job post:

Minimum of 1 year of experience as a Billing Specialist or similar role
Excellent computer and presentation skills
Bachelor’s degree in a related subject (finance, economics, accounting, or business)
Problem-solving skills
Good with numbers and data

Question 4

How much does it cost to hire a billing specialist?

Accepted Answer

You can hire a remote billing specialist in the Philippines for between $2.50 and $8.00 per hour, depending on the person's experience, skills, and asking salary.

Billing Specialist salary expectations

A billing specialist in the Philippines earns between $2.50 and $8.00 per hour with an average hourly salary rate of $4.22 per hour. This is based on a mixture of both entry-level and experienced billing specialists.

Based on the average USA billing specialist salary of $19.00 per hour. This would mean that you will save between 50% and 80% on salary costs by hiring a remote billing specialist in the Philippines.

As a general rule of thumb, the more you pay staff, the better quality of staff you will get. However, like anything, you need to find the right balance between paying enough and not paying too much.

To give you some guidance, we've listed some suggestions below.

Entry Level billing staff:

Pay between $2.50 and $5.00 per hour
They will have less than two years of experience

Intermediate level billing staff:

Pay between $3.50 and $6.50 per hour
They will have between two and five years of experience

Expert level billing staff:

Pay between $4.50 and $8.00 per hour
They will have at least five years of experience and could even fit a team leader position.

Question 5

How do you hire remote billing staff?

Accepted Answer

You can directly hire remote billing specialists on VirtualStaff.ph. With an average salary of $4.22 per hour, it is cost-effective and easy to do.

Create an employer account
Post a job
Interview and hire the billing specialists that you think are the best fit for your business

Question 6

Why hire billing staff in the Philippines?

Accepted Answer

By hiring billing specialists in the Philippines you will be saving as much as 80% on salary costs, and those savings are becoming bigger and bigger based on the more staff you hire, as the savings simply compound.

Aside from saving thousands of dollars per year, you’ll also benefit from hiring billing specialists in the Philippines because there is a highly educated English-speaking talent pool to choose from.

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