Darlene Gross
Email: ********@**************.***
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City: Baltimore
State: MD
Zip: 21217
Country: USA
Phone: 443-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Healthcare Administration experienced in a busy medical practice. Expertise includes medical record functions, registering patients, scheduling appointments, and verifying insurance. Patient contact face-to-face and by telephone. Collaborates with patients, staff, and physicians in a professional manner. Seeks a position of increased responsibility and authority.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville MD 1/2001 to 12/2012 (Health Information Management)
High School Dipolma from TEEST College, Catonsville MD 1/2001 to 12/2012
High School Dipolma from Morgan State University, Catonsville MD 1/2001 to 12/2012
Job History / Details:
Professional Summary
Healthcare Administration experienced in a busy medical practice. Expertise includes medical record functions, registering patients, scheduling appointments, and verifying insurance. Patient contact face-to-face and by telephone. Collaborates with patients, staff, and physicians in a professional manner. Seeks a position of increased responsibility and authority.
Certifications
Certificate in Network Information Technology
Skill Highlights
Maintains strict confidentiality
Maintains charts: pulling, filling,files loose reports, and other records. Check charts for completeness and accuracy.
Distributes and processes information request in a timely manner
Handle walk-in request for release of medical records
Obtains appropriate authorizations for release of information
Purge charts
Trained other employees in medical record tasks
Schedule appointments on IDX system
Verify insurance coverage
Collect co-pays
Place, receive, and screen telephone calls routing to appropriate staff
Review and distribute mail
Excellent customer service skills
Professional Experience
June 2007 to November 2012
Sinai Hospital/Rubin Institute Baltimore, Maryland
Medical Records Clerk/ Patient Registra SSP
Maintaining medical records for 8 Physicians in an orthopedic practice: Pulling charts for clinics, filing charts, ordering charts from storage, purging charts, and sending charts to storage. Loose filing. Handling medical record request. Answering phones, scheduling appointments, sending letters to referring doctors, verifying insurance. Registering patients and collecting co-pays.
November 2005 to May 2007
Officeteam Temps Columbia/Baltimore, Maryland
Clerical/Medical Records/Front Desk
Clerk for Fieldstone Mortgage: Supporting staff with computer entries.
Clerk for Maryland Auto Auction: Supporting staff with various clerical duties.
Medical Records/ Front Desk for Baltimore Medical Systems: Filing, scanning, re-filing charts, checking patients in and out, and verifying insurances.
Medical Records for Advanced Radiology: Pulling and filing charts. Ordering charts from storage on the computer.
Medical Records for Sinai Hospital: Filing charts, loose filing, filling medical records requests, and ordering charts from storage.
November 2004 to October 2005
Bathfitter Owings Mills, Maryland
Appointment Scheduler
Scheduled a high volume of appointments by telephone inbound and outbound to customers showing an interest in the product.
March 1977 to December 2003
Verizon Baltimore, Maryland
Operator Svcs (Long Distance Operator/Service Assistant/DA Operator)
Handled a large volume of inbound calls (averaging 1,000 a day), connecting customers to appropriate destination upon request. Talked to irate customers to resolve issues. Assisted operators with resolving customer related issues. Gave customers telephone numbers requested.
Education and Training
Community College of Baltimore County Catonsville, Maryland
Current Part-Time Student Health Information Management
2003 TEEST College Baltimore, Maryland
Certificate Network Information Technology
Morgan State University Baltimore, Maryland
Attended 1 year 1974-1975 Business Administration