Celeste Johnson

Houston, TX

ace6vg@r.postjobfree.com - 832-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Billing and Coding Specialist

Angiocardiac care of texas - Houston, TX - March 2008 to June 2014

Responsibilities

Check in/out patients, verified insurance, did precertification for heart caths,nuclear stress test etc., put

in charges for Methodist, St Lukes, and Park Plaza consultations, surgeries done by Cardiologist, billed

echocardiograms, trained interns for same skills for hiring, communicated with patients regarding their

insurance plans to help them understand payments and copays

Accomplishments

Becoming dependable, always willing to help patients with paperwork due to illness or disability and also staff

when my work slowed down and they needed help catching up on charges, assisted in clinical tasks

Skills Used

My resources I developed on my own to recognize certain errors with insurance verification, Medicare

advantage plans, knowing from the group number of a patient's insurance if they need precert or not, and

referrals, online knowledge to look up claims, writing appeals, and my various ways of putting information

together to figure out solutions to problems with denied claims and getting them paid

EDUCATION

Billing and coding/ insurance verification

Everest institute - Houston, TX

2007 to 2008

Nurse Tech

Sidney Collier Voc Tech School - New Orleans, LA

2000 to 2002

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Reference: Dr. Amin Karim M.D. 713-***-****