Medical Management
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HENRY LADSON, III
APARTMENT 8G
BRONX, NEW YORK 10462
**********@*******.***
HEALTH CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Entered health care administration without relative experience, but secured St. Luke’s Hospital’s satisfaction through aptitude and performance. Still provisional, was granted its Pulmonary Division’s keys and even solo weekend access, then later a created position. Rode out downsizing to co maintain the department, which led to a second, clinical title. (NOTE: Have been trying to return to mainstream employment, again in health care or generally, after a long hiatus.) EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER, 2005
MEDICAL RECORDS SUPERVISOR
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY
NEW YORK CITY
(VIA THE FORUM GROUP)
Vacation coverage.
● Facilitated and thereby improved department wide tracking of medical records, by creating a single alphabetical repository from the many by physician patient files.
● Oversaw daily preparation, updating, and filing of all medical charts, as well as issuance of copies of same to requesting doctors and patients, in a timely manner.
● Maintained hourly deliveries to, and pickups from, the hospital central mailroom. JUNE TO AUGUST, 2005
OFFICE CLERK
COMPUTERSHARE, INCORPORATED
NEW YORK CITY
(VIA THE FORUM GROUP)
● Calculation of the bulk of delivered stock certificates’ individual totals, corresponding them to those on accompanying transmittal letters.
● Distribution of the certificates to senior account officers.
● Data entering the totals and filing of all certificates in date punched batches. SEPTEMBER, 2001, TO APRIL, 2004
FRONT DESK COORDINATOR
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL PRACTICE ASSOCIATES
NEW YORK CITY
(VIA MANHATTAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INCORPORATED)
Recruited from affiliated St. Luke’s / Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, to co coordinate, with a medical assistant, a starting multi specialist private outpatient office.
● Got the eighteen physicians situated in the facility.
● Collected patients’ referrals, demographics, insurances, primary physicians’ medical records, and radiology
(if any).
● Scheduled follow up visits via the I.D.X. data system, diagnostic testing (pre certifying as needed,) and radiology if called for.
● Management and resolution of patients’ administrative and non clinical medical issues.
● Supervision and training of all part time file clerk / chart preparers.
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HENRY LADSON, IIII
1565 ODELL STREET
APARTMENT 8G
BRONX, NEW YORK 10462
**********@*******.***
AUGUST, 1986, TO SEPTEMBER, 2001
PATIENT BILLING COORDINATOR / CLINICAL AIDE
ST. LUKE’S / ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER (NOW MOUNT SINAI ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL) DIVISION OF PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE
NEW YORK CITY
(VIA DEPENDABLE TEMPS, THEN MANHATTAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INCORPORATED) Started provisionally, registering patients for breathing lab testing and generating procedure statistics, before becoming Division’s first Patient Billing Coordinator after administrator left.
● Organized and finalized procedural and diagnostic documenting including CPT and ICD 9 CM coding for all breathing tests, private outpatient office visits, and critical care inpatient visits, for on and off site billing.
● Consulted about medical coding and procedure statistics by physicians and off site billing management.
● Resolved patients billing document related problems and inquiries.
● Volunteered to cover split dutied Clinical Coordinator on specimen preparation and their reports’ management, leading to creation of second title Clinical Aide.
● After firings, with two staffers managed all of the Division’s administrative and clinical operations, preserving the only hospital lung department on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. JANUARY, 2007, TO THE PRESENT
FREELANCE EDITOR WRITER
NEW YORK CITY
● November to December, 2014, grammar edited correspondence to U.S customers and company representatives, for Swistak, an international auctioning website.
● Editing or rewriting of resumes, cover letters, school papers (via the public libraries), personal contracts, and college application essays, for negotiated fees.
AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 2006
BRONX BOMBER STUDIOS
ASSOCIATE WRITER
NEW YORK CITY
Developed story and character background material, from the creator’s concept, for planned graphic novel M ECCA X
guaranteeing “Additional Material by” credit. ( Project never launched due to studio going under.) MAY TO DECEMBER, 2004
FREELANCE EDITOR WRITER
NEW YORK CITY
(Left health care career in April to pursue the above and also creative writing.)
● Editing or rewriting of resumes, cover letters, school papers (via the libraries), personal contracts, and college application essays, for negotiated fees.
● Creator LeSean Thomas (Supervising Director, The Cartoon Network’s B LACK DYNAMITE) c ommissioned ultimately unused early background idea material for B ATTLESEED, h is eventual animated feature online.
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HENRY LADSON, III
1565 ODELL STREET
APARTMENT 8G
BRONX, NEW YORK 10462
**********@*******.***
SEPTEMBER, 1986, TO NOVEMBER, 1989
FREELANCE THEATER JOURNALIST
THE BLACK AMERICAN (WEEKLY NEWSPAPER)
NEW YORK CITY
Based on a blind critique submission, was recruited by publisher Carl Offord as a freelance weekly play reviewer. Also wrote theater articles and did interviews on assignment plus by own suggestion. Paid per each delivered piece. (1988 to 1989, this overlapped working in health care.) E DUCATION
“Preparing to Manage Skills and Practices”
Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON) January, 2015
“Fundamentals of Project Management”
(ALISON)
January, 2015
Online Medical Terminology Course
Des Moines University (Medical and Health Sciences) January, 2015
Basic Advertising Newsletter Writing (Online Course) TheBarefootWriter.com
October, 2013
Hunter College of the City University of New York
1980 to 1982
Majors: English and Theater
Long Island University at the Brooklyn Center
New York City, N.Y.
1976 to 1978
Major: Journalism
CERTIFICATION
Certificate of Training Excellence:
CPT (Medical) Coding and Reimbursement
Six Continuing Education Credits (Six Hours)
The American Health Information Management Association and The American Association of Procedural Coder
February, 1993
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