Sara Hurtado -Trujillo

Houston, Tx, *****

Phone: 832-***-**** Email: s acx8fi@r.postjobfree.com

HEALTHCARE BILLING SPECIALIST

Experienced Billing Specialist with 2 years’ experience seeking a position that will lead to opportunities in healthcare billing. Responsible and efficient with proven leadership and customer service skills.

Areas of expertise include:

PROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE

LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, H ouston, Tx

2013 - 2016

Healthcare Billing Specialist

Responsible for entering in all billing information into the LabCorp billing system on a daily basis.

Accurately entered collected information into the corporate software system to submit medical procedures for billing. Exceeded the data entry goal of 75 specimens per hour.

Consistently met production goals in reference to order entry and clearing specimens.

Analyzed, researched and corrected billable procedures that had been returned as unbillable.

Made on average 30-40 phone calls to the clients to clarify billing discrepancies.

Faxed 20-30 faxes as another means to clear the unbillable specimens and update the information as received.

Validated any ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes provided by the Doctor’s office that were not valid codes.

Navigated the different payer websites to obtain missing or incorrect demographic and insurance information.

Assisted the lab with boxing all test order forms by Julian date on a daily basis in order to ship out and store at storing facility.

Can identify all HMO and PPO’s from California’s healthcare system.

Took on extra work when needed with the critical files that were not cleared on a timely manner to avoid company write offs.

Volunteered to take on extra work that was assigned to other employees that called out for the day.

Consistently exceeded corporate objectives for resolution and re-submission. RESTRAURANT GENERAL MANAGER, H ouston, Tx

2001 - 2012

General Manager at Long John Silvers Restaurant

Oversaw 8-10 employees on a daily basis.

Exceeded the monthly departmental goals by 20% in labor,10% in sales, 30% in food cost.

Trained over a hundred employees and managers through the 11 years.

Assisted the owner with new hires and re trained all employees with the transition from corporate to franchisees.

Attended meetings as necessary to talk about recruiting, hiring and training of new employees.

Completed payments and controlled expenses by receiving, processing, verifying and reconciling invoices.

Administered disciplinary actions when policy violations occurred up to termination. EDUCATION

Diploma- Parkview Baptist High School, Houston, TX LANGUAGES

Bilingual – Spanish and English

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