Kirstan King 334-***-**** (c) adcnli@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Accomplishments
Talented, opportunist seeking career advancement within healthcare administration to offer over 10 years of experience in both professional & technical healthcare administration.
Coordinate & Manage Business Process Improvements
Provide Strategic Planning and Project Management tools and resolution
Implementation of Epic Software for VUMC to stabilize revenue and volume after Epic Go-Live
Conduct daily new and existing client relations to promote patient satisfaction
Ensure monthly presentations for department(s) with top leadership
attendees: Department Chair(s), Administrative Officer(s) Patient Center Care Administrator(s), Directors, Finance Managers understand in depth analysis around KPI’s involving revenue integrity and compliance.
Education
M.H.A Healthcare Administration
Southern New Hampshire University
CPC Certification
AAPC
CPCO Certification- Continuing Education
AAPC
Experience
Vanderbilt Medical Center October 2017- Current
Senior Revenue Cycle Advisor
Hospital billing revenue cycle advisor monitoring: charge capture, charge lag and late charge volume and revenue matrix
Weekly/Monthly presentations involving charge capture trends or missing revenue
Hospital billing WQ monitoring involving missing device codes, high dollar edits, high quantity edits and date of service out of range charge correction edits
Daily charge variance monitoring using Business Objects/Intelligence and Epic E-star production: Charge Router Reconciliation Report, Open Encounter Report, IP/Outpatient Unreconciled Meds Report and Enterprise Encounter Report, Patient Missing Blood Charge Report, Patient Missing Peritoneal Dialysis Report & OR Log for procedure; time base charges
Working daily with Health IT to add and/or modify billing categories, claim edits and claim logic involving charge capture methods such as: Flowsheet, ProcDoc, Charge Router Charge Entry and OP Time
Working daily with Revenue Management Training team for new employees requiring E-Star training for access to daily reconciliation reports and filters for hospital billing charge capture
Working daily with Professional Revenue Cycle Advisors for conversion of Hospital Base Clinic for VUMC Go-Live ensuring for every PB charge has a respective HB charge unless PB only
Workflow consisting of Revenue Cycle liaison of a few of the following areas: Epic Beacon (MAR used for Oncology Drugs verification qty and administration), Epic Ambulatory (ProDoc used for office visits charge capture), Epic EHR (used for confirming/canceling daily appointment(s), patient chart detailing chargeable Cath lab implants), Epic Cerner (used for lab orders and results) and Interface (used for pulling charges from Aria for Radiation Oncology procedures)
Issac Spine Institute 2017
Interim. Billing Office Manager
Revenue Integrity & Analysis
Credentialing/Provider Relations liaison for all PAR/NON-PAR payers
Interview potential candidates for qualifications
Training and Education for workflow improvement and projects
Weekly touch base with billing office staff
Associates in Gastroenterology 2014-2017
Medical Billing/Coding Manager
Management of a total of 8 billing office staff members
Interview potential candidates for qualifications
Training and Education for workflow improvement and projects including audits and continuing education
Weekly touch base with billing office staff and Office Administrator providing updates, trends and staff progress with workload and assignment
Billing department liaison for third party payors and insurance collectors (Frost Arnett)
Payment Posting/ 2nd /3rd Level of appeals
Medical billing, Coding, Accounts Receivable
Insurance verification specialist
Denial management/ reducing bad debt write off
Attendance of annual billing seminar for education and improvement
Watts Med Internal Medicine 2010-2014
Medical Office Administrator
Management of a total of 6 medical practice staff members
Authorize and approve budget and travel conference
Monthly touch base with Physicians and weekly touch base with office staff
Facilitating training and education for compliance rules and guidelines
Develop & Ensure company policies and procedures specifically for outpatient clinic setting
Interview new physician(s), clinical staff and front office staff
Initiate office weekly/ monthly meetings
Ensure facility maintain leading service, knowledge and satisfaction to our patient’s as healthcare professionals
Payroll/ Staff Benefits/ Provider Credentialing/Report Distribution/ Compliance correspondence
Software/Skills
Advanced- Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Skype for Business)
Advanced- Excel Formulas: Text to Columns, Concatenate, V-Lookup & Pivot Tables
Advanced-Craneware (Utilizing CPT updates for new, additional and deleted codes, Guidelines and Resources)
In depth knowledge of CPT/HCPCS/ UB-04, 1500 distinction referencing Professional & Technical billing
Experienced with Claim Diversion and Modifiers
Root Cause Analysis/ GL/ Financial Budgeting/ Escalating and Managing Disciplinary Actions for Performance Review Evaluation
In depth knowledge of payer specific guidelines and policy (Commercial & Government)
In depth knowledge of identifying Rev Codes trends per MCR guidelines
Epic Production Software Experience w/ EAP knowledge/ Chargemaster knowledge
Advanced- E-Star Terminology
Advanced- Business Intelligence/ Business Objects Software for analytic data
Project Management Independently
References
Available upon request.