Medical Billing and Coding
Resume:
*** ******** ***** **** *** - Weston, FL *****
305-***-**** – *******.******@*****.***
LINDSEY MOREY, CPC
Objective
To gain additional experience and further my career while contributing to the team with my current training and education.
Work Experience
October 2020 – Present
Weston Psychological Associates Weston, FL Front Desk Associate
Answer phones and provide patient support between the Doctors and patients.
Schedule Appointments and make daily confirmation calls.
Collect payments from the patients.
Make daily deposits from insurance payments.
Assist office manager with calls to insurance carriers regarding denials and non-payments.
Make collection calls to patients with high balances.
Post daily charges to the patient account, and insurance companies.
September 2019 – April 2020
MEDNAX Services INC. Sunrise, FL Surgery Auditor
Audit physicians from our surgical practices to ensure appropriate billing and coding.
Assist with monthly education presentations when needed.
Audited E/M and procedure visits for Urology, GI, Endocrinology, Ophthalmology, and ENT practices.
Assist with any Radiology associated auditing questions or concerns.
May 2018 – September 2019
MEDNAX Services INC. Sunrise, FL Radiology Audit and Education
Audit Physicians for documentation errors.
Audit coders at our practices to ensure appropriate billing.
Answers questions from our physicians and our management teams at our practices.
Audit and oversee 5 major practices across the country.
Create PowerPoint presentations to provide Radiology education to my coding department to ensure consistency in our department.
Create audit templates
Create audit schedules based on error rate and longevity with the company
Create education plans for physicians and practices post annual audit.
Work with the development team, directors and VP to perform pre-acquisition audits.
Responsible for keeping our team motivated with daily inspiration and motivation.
Use Cerner, 3M and RadPayor systems to pull records and claims for auditing purposes.
August 2016 – April 2018
Sheridan/Envision Sunrise, FL Radiology Coding Supervisor
Worked as a Production Supervisor for a team of 45 remote coders.
Set up goals for all areas within the coding department.
Ensure that Production goals are maintained from all the coders.
Handle disciplinary actions against those who do not meet the minimum requirements for Production.
Assist in helping our Auditing team as well as the SMART team when necessary to meet our goals as a department.
Handles all facility access, new and old accounts.
Handles tickets for CodeRyte system when necessary to ensure the system is running properly.
Transitioned Radiology Associates of Hollywood coding department into Sheridan/Envision.
Supervised 8 coders while transitioning them into Sheridan/Envision after the merger.
Helped to clear out backlog after the merge to Sheridan/Envision.
Set up audits and audited coders to ensure that they were maintaining 95% accuracy.
Worked to clear out our billing system and our coding system to ensure that we would reconcile monthly.
Handled denials or other issues from the collections department that were coding based to ensure payment on the claims.
Handled pricing calls for self-pay patients from the hospitals.
Worked alongside my manager to help create guidelines for our Radiology Coding Department.
August 2014 – August2016
Sheridan Sunrise, FL Radiology Coder
Maintains 95% accuracy in QA
Maintains production goals of 40 charts/hour or 20 charts/hour based on queues for those specific days and workflow requirements.
HIPAA compliance
Works remotely from home without direct supervision.
Assists with Incompletes as well as Rejections that need correct coding and any other overflow work that needs assisted with.
Assists other co-workers with different tasks such as working together to discuss any concerns, and coding related issues.
Work in both SMART as well as CodeRyte systems.
Knowledge of medical records documentation and application of correct coding guidelines.
October 2012 – August 2014
TeamHealth Sunrise, FL Emergency Department Coder
HIPAA compliance
Performs coding on Emergency room patient charts
Handles coding for procedures such as fractures, burns, lacerations, etc that are performed in the
Emergency Department.
Ability to code 240 charts per day while maintaining good accuracy and monthly quotas
Knowledge of medical records documentation and application of correct coding guidelines.
Responsible for applying the correct E/M service components and applying the MD, and MLPs to their correct charts for maximum reimbursement
March 2012- October 2012
PRRS Sunrise, FL Insurance Verifications/Trainer
Verified insurance for facilities across the U.S. for Behavioral Health and Chemical Dependency
Worked on a turnaround time of 1 hour, to get our verifications back to our facilities
Used Medisoft, and Microsoft Outlook programs, as well as company shared drives with our billing and collections department also.
Handled all re-verifications and follow-up information for billing and collections to assist them with getting things properly billed and/or collected on
Trained all new employees to the Verifications Department
-This was a continuation of my career at Medivance, when the company decided to go separate ways, I continued with one of the owners when they split.
January 2012 – March 2012
Medivance Sunrise, FL Insurance Verification
Verified insurance for 20 different Behavioral Health and Chemical Dependency facilities
Worked with Medisoft and Optiview for re-verifications, and patient information retrieval
Verified eligibility for prior years for the billing department when needed
March 2010- January 2012
Dr. Paul Herman Cooper City, FL Office Manager/Receptionist
Assist billing with researching unpaid claims
Verifies that insurance companies have all documents necessary to pay claims.
Retrieve authorizations from insurance companies for patient visits
Scheduling of patients and confirmation calls
Responsible for employee schedule’s and time off requests
Answer phones
Prepared all paperwork for billing department
Posted payments
Handled interviews and hiring
Completed all daily, weekly and monthly paperwork
August 2008- March 2010
Dr. Velarde Pembroke Pines and Weston, FL Medical Assistant
Retrieve authorizations from insurance companies
Working directly with the MD’s and patients, including vitals, and in office procedures
Venipuncture and administration of vaccine’s and other injections
Medical records
Taking care of all lab results, including contacting patients with results
Scheduling and registering of patients
Triaging patient complaints and phoning in prescriptions to pharmacy’s
2007 – 2008
Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse Sunrise, FL Assistant Manager
Customer Service – Handling all customer issues
Cash Handling – Balancing all registers between shifts and taking care of nightly deposits
Completing daily and weekly paperwork and reports
Training new employees 2006-2007 GameStop Davie, FL Store Manager
Primary responsibility is to drive sales through trades and G.I Subscriptions
Training, Hiring and developing my staff as well as new employees for other stores
Completing daily, weekly, and monthly paperwork and reports
Managing schedules and payroll
Auditing/Inventory control through daily detailed counts and shipments
Balancing registers and making deposits
1997-2006
Footlocker Broward/Miami-Dade Manager in Training/Assistant Manager
Customer Service
Cash handling
Training newly hired assistant managers for other managers
Inventory control and auditing
Supervised and ran my training store
Education
2011 – 2012
Florida Career College Pembroke Pines, FL
National Certified Medical Billing and Coding Specialist
2008-2010
Broward College Davie, FL
Radiology Technician
2007 – 2008
Florida Career College Pembroke Pines, FL
National Certified Medical Assistant
1997 – 2001
Western High School Davie, FL
High School Diploma
Professional Affiliations
AAPC – Certified Professional Coder
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