Objective
To establish employment within a company offering a professional environment and providing the opportunity to obtain skills leading to career advancement within its structure.
Experience
12/2014-9/2016
MetroPlus Health Plan
New York, NY
Assistant Director/Complaints Manager
Create & maintain reporting both weekly and monthly for executive management review.
Create, maintain, & present all complaint reports for submission to regulatory agencies and committee members/meetings on a quarterly basis.
Tracking and trending of all complaints for both internal/external reporting purposes.
Develop all complaint materials training materials and provide process updates/changes as they occur
Ensure that all complaint files and logs are maintained up to date
Conduct and initiate internal/external investigations ensuring all complaints are handled efficiently and within appropriate time period
Review all formal complaint acknowledgement and resolution letters created by Complaint’s Team Leader and Complaints Coordinator
Review existing complaint tracking systems recommending edits/upgrades to ensure that all call criterion is appropriately/efficiently identified and reported.
Ensure that all Customer Services Representatives are being properly in-serviced/trained on proper handling and identification of all complaints
Directly responsible for a staff of 5+
01/2012-12/2014
Theradynamics Physical Rehab
New York, NY
Outpatient Medical Billing Operations Manager
Manage and refining the work flow for the billing, appeals & grievances, collections, AR, medical records, and credentialing departments for 7 physical therapy office locations.
Executing any and all tasks pertinent to the growth of the company including but not limited to: time cards, performance reviews, daily production reports, daily and monthly statistics and analysis of accounts receivable, claims, and denied accounts. Adjusting any unrecoverable amounts.
Created over 50 dispute/appeals, collections, and medical record templates. Creating department and process manuals.
Conducting meetings and training groups, and assisting in the determination of continued treatment.
Correlating with the front office and physical therapy’s supervisors to create an efficient work flow process to decrease annual adjustment amount.
Observing operations to identifying and providing solutions for day to day processes.
Successfully increased accounts receivable by 20% in 6 months.
Preparing, conducting, and monitoring audits
Credentialing and recredentialling all outpatient physical therapist.
Assisting in CAQH and NPI requests.
Directly responsible for a staff of 5+
03/2010-01/2012
Optum Health- BCBS MH/SA Division (UHG)
San Diego, CA
Sr. Appeals and Grievance Coordinator
Administratively resolving member/ providers correspondences.
Providing expertise or general support to teams in reviewing, researching, investigating, negotiating and resolving all types of appeals, disputes and grievances.
Analyze and identify trends for all appeals and grievances. Researching and administratively resolving written Department of Insurance complaints and complex or multi-issue complaints submitted by consumers and physicians/providers.
Compiling resolution letters for both administrative and clinical reviews.
Granting authorizations for pre services or continued services.
Preparing, conducting, and monitoring audits
10/2005-02/2010
Johnson & Rountree Premium
Del Mar, CA
QA Director & Audit Coordinator
Daily task include but are not limited to: Assisting medical providers with overpayments, complaints, provider relations matters, collection / recovery, and appeals & grievance issues.
Providing necessary training of: system, medical insurance billing policies, and proper call handling.
Oversaw all quality assurance matters such as: monitoring representatives voice messages, emails, system entrees, test scores, and calls. Assembling and providing collector’s audits and review reports. Compiling, administering, and scoring training.
Creating department and process manuals and reference guides.
Completing I9 forms for past and present employees.
Developed and maintained a dispute tracking and resolution system
Directly responsible for 3 appeal representatives and supervised 60+ employees
Education
11/2001
Cherry Creek Prep HS
Aurora, CO
High School Equivalence Degree
High School Equivalence Degree Achieved 11/01
08/2013 CrossCountry Education
HIPAA and Medical Records Law Course
Emphasis in computer science, marketing/ business, psychology and criminology
Completed multiple Medicare webinars.
Skills
Emdeon Portal
COSMOS / FACETS
MS programs (excel, etc)
Crystal Reports
ISET
Employee Training
IDARS,TDARS, ODARS
CPW
Quality Assurance Auditing
EDSS, LINX, RTMS
MEDISOFT
Statistics and business analysis
Grievance
Insurance Policies
Refining Workflow
Provider Relations
60+ WPM
Overpayment Recovery
REDOC
Operations Mngmt
Appeal/Dispute Resolution
Multiple Line Operation
Organized
Multitasking
Medisoft
HIPPA Guidelines
Problem Solving
UNET
Management
Medical Terminology
Project Management
Medical Billing
Negotiating
Detail Oriented
Credentialing
Financial Reporting
References are available on request.