Medical Health

maria staedler, MS, RHIA

**** ***** **** ****** ? Milwaukee, WI 53222

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SUMMAry

RHIA with over 15 years experience working in Health Information

Management. I've worked in different healthcare specialties, i.e. acute

care, long term care, physician practice consultant, physician educator and

ad hoc instructor teaching health care law.

I enjoy several aspects of HIM with emphasis on Quality, Outcomes,

Compliance and Strategic Planning. Specialties: budgeting, strategic

planning, consulting, documentation review, finance, forms, ICD-9-CM

coding, document imaging and indexing, layout design, health care law,

policy analysis, process engineering, quality, quality control, document

scanners, conduct seminars, staff training, develop training materials,

EXPERIENCE

September 2010 Independent HIM Contractor Milwaukee, WI

. Working with Pyramid Healthcare Solutions at Froedtert Health for

project work

. Develop, implement and provide monitoring tools for the Quality

Management of Release of Information process

. Re-design physician deficiency process

January 2010 Waukesha County Department of Health & Human Services

Waukesha, WI

To June 2010 central records supervisor & Hipaa privacy/

security coordinator

. Develop, implement and maintain health information compliance with

federal and state laws and generally accepted HIM best practices.

. Plan, coordinate, implement, and maintain department-wide computerized

and non-computerized records management system

. Establish DHHS-wide medical record policies and procedures.

. Provide guidance with the identification, implementation and

maintenance of all policies in coordination with Management across

DHHS

. Establish, direct, and maintain a system of managing client,

administrative, and fiscal files; and ensures file system security and

confidentiality

. Develop and coordinate clinical classification and coding for DHHS.

Supervise, assign, coordinate, train, and evaluate employees, handles

personnel concerns

. Develop and oversee training programs for DHHS staff to ensure

standardization of records management, security and confidentiality

practices.

February 2009 Wisconsin Lutheran Care Center Milwaukee, WI

To January 2010 Health Information manager

. Compliance with state and federal laws for medical records in long

term care.

. Maintain medical record.

. Assign ICD-9-CM codes.

. Develop and implement policies and procedures.

. Conduct release of information.

. Participate on Quality Assurance and Assessment Committee.

. Audit closed and active medical records.

. Monitored Unit Secretary Staff for compliance.

August 2003 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Milwaukee, Brookfield, WI

To January 2009 The Wisconsin Heart Hospital & Elmbrook Memorial Hospital

director of health information Management

. Preparation for facility opening

. Worked closely with Administration and Finance to create the new

department

. Developed patient/facility processes with Nursing, Emergency

Department, Surgery, Cardiac Intervention Lab, Pharmacy, Lab Services

and Registration leaders.

. Recruited coding and clerical staff.

. Developed policy, procedure and forms for departments.

. Monitored all paper record activity.

. Release of Information- Provided HIPAA compliance education for all

staff, physicians and allied health.

. Managed the Patient Registration Department (1/2004-5/2007) while the

HIM Director

. Implemented Electronic Document Imaging System - Horizon Patient

Folder by McKesson - Monitored daily prepping, scanning, indexing and

analysis of the electronic record.

. Maintained physician suspension process.

. Managed A/R days with coding staff.

. Developed yearly department budget.

. Participated in Revenue Cycle Committee, Emergency Preparedness Team,

Administrator-On Call Team, Joint Commission Readiness Team,

Documentation Taskforce, Utilization Review Committee. Addition of

Elmbrook Memorial Hospital HIM Department June 2008-January 22, 2009

. Managed activity at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital and The Wisconsin Heart

Hospital.

. Performed same duties as The Wisconsin Heart Hospital.

. Participated on Electronic Health Record Taskforce, Medication

Reconciliation Team, Forms Committee and Joint Commission Readiness

Team.

January 2002 Wisconsin Medical Society Madison, WI

To July 2003 healthcare Consultantc

. Developed and presented educational seminars for healthcare providers

in preparation of HIPAA Privacy Rules. These seminars took place

across Wisconsin.

. Developed the Wisconsin Medical Society's HIPAA Legal Resource. A 100+

page resource for physician offices. It contained policies,

procedures, assessments, checklists, quality review documents and

training materials for compliance with HIPAA Privacy Rule, which was

implemented in April 2003.

. Consulted with several medical groups to create a HIPAA Privacy

Compliance Program for the office.

. Worked with staff, nurses, physicians and administrators to assess

their needs and provide the appropriate HIPAA documents.

. Provided training sessions for physician offices in Waukesha and

Milwaukee. - Training included policy development, training

materials and quality assessment tools.

May 1999 Mount Carmel Milwaukee, WI

To December 2001 director of medical records

. Educate facility on HIPAA compliance by system audits, review of

existing policies and provide staff training. Educate facility on OIG

Compliance measures. c

. Train staff on Fraud and Abuse identification and prevention.

. Compliance with state and federal laws for medical records in long

term care

. Maintain medical record.

. Develop and implement policies and procedures.

. Oversee release of information practices.

. Direct Quality Indicator activity.

. Audit closed and active medical records.

. Supervise department personnel.

January 1999 Moraine Park Technical College West Bend, WI

To May 2001 call staff instructor

. Course Instructor, "Legal Aspects of Medical Records" for Health

Information Technician Program. - I taught during the Spring semesters

for 1/99 - 5/99;1/00-5/00;1/01-5/01.

October 1995 Bel Air Health Care Center Milwaukee, WI

To May 1999 director of health information

. Maintained medical record.

. Managed Windows NT network.

. Troubleshoot problem areas.

. Configured workstations for network use.

. Created workgroup LAN for training purposes.

. Implemented remote user access system.

. Coordinated preparation and training for new software.

. Assemble and analyze closed charts.

. Assign ICD-9-CM codes.

. Release of information.

. Organized JCAHO survey preparation for all departments.

. Created QI program.

. Coordinated QI teams.

. Managed monthly facility-wide QI procedures.

. Coordinated multi-department audits.

July 1994 Rogers Memorial Hospital Oconomowoc, WI

To September 1995 health information technician

. Assemble and analyze closed charts. - Release of information. - File

loose papers. - Assign ICD-9-CM codes. - Maintain chart delinquency

system.

EDUCATION

April 1997 Cardinal Stritch University Milwaukee, WI

To May 1999 Master's Degree

Master of Science and Healthcare Administration

September 1990 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI

To May 1994 Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Science Health Information Administration

CERTIFICATIONS

October 1994 American Health Information Association

Registered Health Information Administration (RHIA)

affiliations

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

Wisconsin Health Information Management Association (WHIMA)

HIPAA CoW

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