Karen J. Macina

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Hallandale Beach, FL 33009

954-***-****

516-***-****

Career Profile

Eight years experience in the Health Care System with a variety of skills and interests including medical billing, surgical scheduling, materials management purchasing and medical records. A dependable, highly motivated, organized team player ready to do what it takes to get the job completed. A self disciplined professional when meeting deadline and ensuring the highest quality of work delivered.

Computer Proficiency

Proficient in various packages including Windows 2007,

Microsoft Word for Windows and Lotus 123.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Macy’s:2018-present

Sales Associate

Responsible for sales in a Women’s Ready to Wear Dept, Opening credit accounts, putting out merchandise, Experience in selling housewares and textiles as well

Forest Park School :2012-2016

Lunch Monitor

Responsible for supervising children during lunch and recess periods. Also assisted the Librarian before lunch period, putting away books and various clerical duties.

FRR Recovery: 2002-2004

Medical Biller

Responsible for receivables, follow up on denied claims from insurance companies. Duties include: forwarding of doctor’s notes, medical records, EOB statements to various insurance carriers for correction of unpaid claims. Heavy telephone contact with medical coders and patients, Medicare and commercial insurance companies to ensure timely fashion of payment. Also ran outstanding receivable reports weekly for denied claims. Handled numerouss phone calls from patients.

Long Island Spine Specialists; 2000-2002

Medical Records Technologist

Responsible for all correspondence between lawyers, insurance companies, patients and Social Security Disability requests for medical records. Duties include: forwarding of records to legal and medical personnel, billing for medical record and narrative requests, scheduling of physicians for Expert Witness Testimony and Worker’s Compensation Depositions. Inventory control of office supplies and ordering, I also assisted my supervisor with various projects when necessary. Interfaced with insurance companies for radiological insurance authorizations when needed.

Mercy Medical Center; 1996-2000

Assistant Materials Manager

Responsibilities within the Central Instrumentation Processing Unit/Operating Room include inventory maintenance of all hospital supplies and prostheses, daily ordering of operation room supplies, patient implants, equipment and instrumentation. I was also responsible for coordinating equipment repairs, purchases and returns.

Provided support for pharmaceutical sales representatives regarding current inventory issues and ordering. I continued to be responsible for patient implant and operating room billing. Assumed the Materials Manager’s responsibilities when she was unavailable.

Surgical Scheduler/OR Booking

Responsible for all outpatient and inpatient surgical booking through the operation room and minor surgery. Duties include: schedule maintenance and distribution, appointment setting for pre-surgical testing, input of post-operative data, admission reports, interpretation and reporting of abnormal laboratory values to doctors offices, quality assurance of/and correction of daily surgical logs. Also responsible for implant charging and operation room charges on the ORSOS Windows computer system. I also relieved the operation room administrative assistant as needed. Those duties entailed providing support for the Operating room manager, surgeons, anesthesiologists and nursing staff.

Medical Administrative Assistant

Responsible for patient appointments, registration, chart maintenance, statistics, purchasing, correspondence, distribution of medical reports and bookkeeping for the Cardiovascular/EEG Unit. Extensive use of the HBOC system for patient inquiry, status and charging. Provided support to doctors, technicians, and the director of the cardiovascular unit. Also assisted respiratory therapists with sleep study appointments when necessary.

I was employed on a Per Diem basis for Dr. Qamar Zaman, Chief of Internal Medicine at Mercy doing medical transcription and various administrative duties.

Responsible on a volunteer basis for input of codes for outpatient billing, review of operative and laboratory reports, assisted medical record chart analysts and supervisors with patient charting, filing and record maintenance.

Education

Medical Records Certificates Program, Molloy College, March 1997. Achieved certificates in Medial Coding, Billing and Medial Administrative Assisting.

Associates Degree in Arts and Science for Nassau Community College, December 1980.

I AM A NOTARY PUBLIC FOR THE STATE OF NEW YORK

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