Medical Health Information

HEATHER BARKER

***A Willow Ridge Dr West Monroe, LA 71291 318-***-**** 318-***-**** ***********@*****.*** ***********@****.***

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Health Information Management, May 1997, Louisiana Tech University

RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator) through AHIMA, Member Id #1005250

CTR (Certified Tumor Registrar) through NCRA, Member Id #13959

KForce — Tampa, Florida

Remote Certified Tumor Registrar, 2011-2012

Reviewed clinical information in the patient’s electronic medical record and completed a cancer registry abstract in CNeXT software for patients who were diagnosed and/or treated with cancer for state and national statistics. Edited cancer registry abstracts for compliance with the National Cancer database and state registries.

Northern Louisiana Medical Center — Ruston, Louisiana

Clinical Documentation Specialist, 2009-2010

Assigned ICD-9 Codes to inpatient accounts for DRG assignment and ultimate reimbursement rate. Initiated a physician query process both concurrently and post discharge to ensure quality clinical documentation in the patient’s medical record.

Outcomes, Inc. — Stanford, Kentucky

Remote Coder, 2008-2009

Reviewed medical records to ensure necessary documentation is present to reflect certain clinical conditions of high risk patients based upon DRG to meet CMS standards and requirements. Assigned codes based upon review of clinical information provided on a remote basis.

St. Edwards Mercy Medical Center — Fort Smith, Arkansas

Cancer Registry Consultant, 2007-2008

Provided consultation and expert advice for compliance with Commission on Cancer American College of surgeon’s cancer program survey standards. Provided advice for overall direction of the cancer registry department.

Oversaw maintenance of hospital policy and procedures as well as cancer registry department policies and procedures that apply to attaining compliance with the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.

Performed quality checks and analysis of cancer data that was entered into the cancer registry database. Communicated any revisions or corrections from the data analysis to the cancer registrar responsible for data input.

Directly responsible for compliance with all 36 standards for the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Program Survey Manual for accreditation of the entire hospital cancer program.

Directly participated in face to face interview survey process in June of 2008 with a surgeon from the American College of Surgeons resulting in the highest possible achievement award of accreditation with multiple commendations.

Glenwood Regional Medical Center — West Monroe, Louisiana

Certified Tumor Registrar, 2000-2006

Published a Cancer Program Annual Report and worked directly with a surgeon and radiation oncologist to perform two patient care enhancement studies annually.

Coordinated all dissemination of patient information for multidisciplinary weekly cancer conferences and quarterly cancer committee meetings

Participated in 95% of a face to face interview with a surgeon from the ACoS (American College of Surgeons) resulting in achieving the highest possible accreditation with multiple commendations in the survey process.

Abstracted all patients that were diagnosed and/or treated with cancer for State and National statistics and transmitted the derived patient data to the National Cancer Database and local regional registries.

Followed all patients for a lifetime in the cancer database while maintaining a 90% cancer staging rate by the managing physicians for all analytical cases.

Volunteered to work weekends at free cancer screening programs that aide in earlier cancer detection methods and increase overall awareness of cancer to public participants. Volunteered to represent the hospital in their annual fundraiser with the United Way Hospital Campaign.

Served as a coder in the medical records department on weekends to improve outcome of the AR (account record).

LSU Health Science Center at Monroe — Monroe, Louisiana

Health Information Reviewer Specialist, 1998-2000

Abstracted and tracked clinical data from the patient’s medical record via QSM (Quality Service Monitor)

software and transmitted derived statistics to JCAHO on a quarterly basis.

Served as a backup coder.

St. Francis Medical Center — Monroe, Louisiana

Case Manager/Coding Specialist, 1995-1998

Reviewed medical records to track variances, admission criteria, outcome criteria, appropriateness criteria, and discharge planning by using Interqual Pro.

insurance companies for patients with private/commercial insurance to verify approval for their length of stay while in the hospital.

Assigned ICD-9-CM and CPT codes to inpatient and outpatient accounts to group DRG’s that determine reimbursement rate.

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