Royce Harris

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Delair, New Jersey 08110 ac2vgg@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

A healthcare professional with over 20 years of experience in the private and public sectors as well as 15 years within the RCM (revenue cycle management) domain. An account executive and prior operations manager with extensive experience partnering with offshore cross functional teams in completing various BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) functions; generating millions of dollars of revenue monthly for various clients throughout the United States. An administrator with a wide range of operational experience within various managerial and senior leadership roles. A proven leader with excellent matrix management and relationship management skills and a reputation for developing highly effective teams that increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. A former project manager with experience navigating in various software solutions and repositories. Demonstrated experience building business relationships, negotiating positive outcomes and project management of complex schemes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Omega Healthcare Limited April 2015 – June 2017

Director Client Services

Provided exceptional service to our clients while continuing to adapt to their ongoing needs, liaising communication between senior leadership, project managers and cross functional operations teams in the implementation of new and existing projects. Business development for existing client new business and ensured that SOW's and contracts are drafted in a manner that did not impede production or progress. Drove customer relationships and growth with information systems and proprietary software applications within existing processes and new business for the end clients. Regularly attended onsite client review and planning meetings and performed onsite visits to operations service centers; ensuring the steady flow of communication and the development of accountability standards. Collaborated with business unit divisional heads in monitoring the PNL and the adjustments required to improve EBITDA and financial reporting outcomes at both a client and process level.

Expanded BPO relationship with a major healthcare billing and software development company by 40% within seven months of my initial assignment; this expansion involved new projects within four separate software solutions and three different processes.

Worked with a healthcare billing and software start-up company in the implementation of three initial clients in completion of RCM services for small practices.

Implemented seven processes concurrently within a new BPO relationship for one of the nation’s largest anesthesia and surgery center billing companies.

Successfully implemented multi-specialty, multi-platform EPIC coding project transition, for a leading healthcare services company contracted by a large New Jersey health system.

Zotec Partners (Medical Management Professionals) Bala Cynwyd, PA May 2008 – February 2015

Coding Production Manager / Inventory Operations Manager

Lead four departments and a staff of 100 plus, responsible for the processing of 300K+ physician’s claims for Emergency Departments, Radiology, Orthopedic Surgery and Hospitalists visits in excess of $200 million monthly in gross charges, including ICD-9 and E/M Coding through shared databases and software. Billing processes include the use of offshore teams in conjunction with domestic staff in the seamless execution of responsibilities.

Reduced the average processing time from 6 to 2.5 days by developing and implementing production and quality assurance systems and utilization of offshore resource to meet new SLA’s.

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Established all ECI (Electronic Chart Interface) and EDI (Electronic Demographic Interface) processes as clients began to migrate to new EHR’s with export capabilities which enabled operations teams to continue within the revenue cycle as technology evolved.

Project manager responsible for implementations enabling processing by our BPO’s (Business Process Outsourcing) while continuing to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

In depth experience in all aspects of EMR implementation processes including the establishment of connectivity and development of workflow protocols. Successfully managed 50+ projects establishing access to EMR’s and the delivery ECI files for review of records for coding analysis and subsequent billing processes.

Systems analysis and participation within project teams in the development of proprietary software for the conversion of manual processes to automated charge posting process which reduced personnel costs and increased accuracy.

Brandywine Medical Management Services, Chadds Ford, PA October 2007 – March 2008

Accounts Receivable Manager

Oversight and analysis of accounts receivable processes in the adjudication of claims and the collection of revenue in a third-party environment for the world’s largest dialysis provider. Managed four departments and 60 staff and participated in weekly calls with regional management of insurance carriers to avoid litigation.

Design and implementation of quality assurance and production review systems. Communication of trends and workflow irregularities to clients. Oversight of supplemental commercial and Medicare billing for dialysis services.

Medical Management Professionals(HBR) Bala Cynwyd, PA September 2002 – October 2007

EMR Operations Manager / Inventory Control Manager

Operational management and inventory control of the staff and resources in pre-receivable processing

of physician claims through shared databases utilizing 60 direct reports for three departments. Implementation of workflow processes for the use of BPO’s for coding analysis and the use EHR’s in their early stages in the completion of claims and the initiation of the revenue.

Development and implementation of quality assurance and production systems in the reduction of cycle time. Communication of trends and workflow irregularities to clients allowing consistency

within the revenue cycle. Oversight of all pre-receivable EMR and EDI processes and resolution of all pre-billing workflow problems ensuring the consistency of the revenue cycle.

Project management of the document management conversion of paper medical records to EHR’s to enable processing by BPO’s while continuing to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Developed protocols and assisted in the configuration for the interface processes for the ingestion of the scanned documents into the workflow.

Participated in the design of EMR software and the development of internal systems within concurrent processes. Oversight of the implementation and migration of software and the facilitation of the divisional conference calls and meetings with Data Center and local IT staff.

EDUCATION

Architecture / Business, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Management, Park University, Parkville Mo, MCAS Beaufort, SC

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