Medical Administrative Assistant
Resume:
CANDACE WHITKER
Chicago, Illinois 60619
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Objective:
To advance further in a career as a registered health information
technician.
Qualifications:
REGENCY HOME HEALTH CARE
December 2008-Present
Full Time
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Receive referrals from various hospitals for home care services.
Prepare referrals and assign nursing and/or physical therapy to new
patients.
Verifying private insurance patients' eligibility and benefits.
Receiving preauthorization for private insurance patients for home care
services.
Answering telephone calls, receive lab reports from doctors offices, and
doing follow-up calls on current patients.
Verifying coding for home care services.
Data entry for Oasis billing.
Oasis submission and CASPER reporting.
Preparing patient and marketing booklets for Agency.
Filling Medicare and private insurance claims.
Calling Medicare and private insurance companies to follow-up on denied
claims.
Ordering office supplies.
Ordering medical supplies for field staff.
Verifying Medicare eligibility and benefits.
Preparing invoices for any balances patients may have and follow-up.
Preparing patients charts for new patients and auditing of current and
discharged patients.
Preparing company checks received from patients and insurance companies for
bank deposit.
Updating employee files to make sure licenses are current.
Preparing Agency for CHAP certification by updating changing policies.
INITIATE SYSTEMS
June 2008-July 2008
Contract Temporary
Full Time
DATA STEWARD
Gathering medical records from various hospitals and clinics and
identifying potential duplicates.
Using identifiers from the demographic information to link up duplicate
medical records and updating them with the correct information.
Merging duplicate records and preparing them for electronic scanning.
VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER
November 2007-January 2008
Contract Temporary
Full Time
GENERAL CLERK
Assisting in the maintenance of office records and routine clerical duties,
such as filing documents.
Typing non-confidential, non-sensitive correspondence, reports, and other
material.
Operating copying machine, fax machines, and other office equipment.
Assembling and collating documents.
Assisting with the maintenance of office supplies.
Answering phone calls and informing staff of incoming calls.
Receiving and greeting clients and guests, accessing needs and directing to
appropriate persons.
PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE
August 2005-December 2005
Adjunct Faculty-Medical coding course
MEDICAL CODING/BILLING INSTRUCTOR
Instructed students basic medical terminology.
Instructed students medical coding.
Instructed students about the various guidelines and procedures regarding
medical billing.
CHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
September 1999-September 2006
Full Time
CONTRACT ANALYST
Responsible for managing the contracts that the hospital have with various
vendors in a computerized system.
Determining what contracts will be cost efficient for the hospital and
activate or deactivate them.
Maintaining a close relationship with various vendors to ensure quality
products and savings.
Responsible for handling vendor samples given to the hospital.
Keeping abreast of price changes of supplies to ensure the hospital will
receive overall savings.
PURCHASING AGENT
Processing orders in a computerized system for the various departments of
the hospital.
Composing Purchase Order numbers in Lawson for orders placed daily.
Placing calls to various vendors for supplies in a timely fashion.
Maintaining a working relationship with accounts payable to minimize
invoice discrepancies.
POINT OF SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE-OUTPATIENT SURGERY
Registering and verifying patient insurances by identifying issues such as
preauthorization for procedures and surgical consents.
Identifying issues, tracking inconsistencies, and communicating with
patients, nurses, surgeons, and anesthesiologist.
Monitoring and ordering charts for scheduled surgeries by searching for
lost or missing reports and delivering them to the appropriate parties for
completion.
Preparing surgical packets for upcoming surgeries.
Processing patient charges in ESI daily.
Ensuring that correct CPT and ICD-9 codes are charged to patients.
ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER
January 1995-August 1999
Full Time
OR INVENTORY CLERK
Maintaining par level stock of modules in 12 room Operating Suites.
Aiding nurses and surgeons in organizing and ordering supplies for
specialized cases for surgery.
Stocking and reordering stock for sterile supply storage room.
Assisting in training and orientation of new employees in the OR.
Education:
OLIVE-HARVEY COLLEGE
MEDICAL CODING AND BILLING
January-September 2004
Received certificate of completion
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY
COURSE OF STUDY-BIOLOGY
1996-1999
132 semester hours
Relevant Experience
CPC LICENSE-November 2004
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL CODERS
Secretary, Southeast Chapter 2005
President, Southeast Chapter 2006
Other Experience:
Basic and Advance medical terminology, Windows Excel, Microsoft Works,
PowerPoint, Lawson, HBOC, Hyperspace, Microsoft Office
Suite, Lytec Medical, Allegra, Microsoft Publisher, Medisoft, Epic, Haven,
Misys, Visitrak, Allscripts.
References Available Upon Request
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