Kimberly Cooper
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Client focused and goal-driven professional with extensive experience in both medical finance and patient care. Possess solid leadership talents.
July 2017-Present Self Employed
Personal Caregiver
Help clients take prescribed medication
Assist clients with amputation and mobility around the house or outside
Take clients to doctors’ appointments, walks, and to run errands
Assist client with person care and hygiene
Plan and prepare meals, grocery shopping, and housekeeping
June 2014-July 2017
Patient Benefit Representative Az Oncology
Responsible for educating patients on insurance coverage and benefits.
Assess patient’s financial ability and set up payment arrangements.
Educate patients on assistance programs.
Update and maintain existing patient’s insurance eligibility, coverage, and benefits.
Discuss and resolve account balances with patients and insurance payors.
Review reimbursement and liability of chemotherapy regimens and register for reimbursement.
Stays current on available financial aid. Develops professional relationships with financial aid providers. Networks with financial aid providers to obtain leads to other aid programs.
Work with billing department on complex claims issues, research, and improve processes.
April 2012-June 2014 Dolce & Beyond
Bakery Manager
Commercial sales of bake good product.
Managed all aspects of Café operations including opening, food preparation, customer service and closing.
Supervised and trained employees in customer service operations.
Developed a marketing strategy as well as the platform to kick-off opening launch.
Daily purchasing and stocking of raw materials for Café needs.
Assisted in developed literature and sales strategy for presentations.
Involved in product development and pricing strategy.
Created business plan for future growth of the Company
Assisted in acquiring required licensing, banking, and all legal affairs to open a successful small business.
Assisted with the Business Analysis of website development, www.dolceandbeyond.com
Co-Created Facebook and Social Networking Groups, (Twitter).
February 2011 – March 2012 TOCA
Surgery Scheduler
•Maintaining surgery schedule for two + high volume orthopedic surgeons at various surgery centers and hospitals. Which involves monitoring blocks of time and reviewing required data for appropriate assignment of cases to available space
•Create and maintain a computerized schedule of patients for surgery
•Responsible for obtaining preauthorization for surgeries and confirm insurance benefits before surgeries are performed
•Answer telephones, screen calls, take messages, and provide the highest level of quality care and superior customer service
•Greet between 100-300 patients daily, check patients in, maintain updated paperwork in charts
December 2007 – December 2010 Kim’s Preschool
Teacher
•Develop and instruct age appropriate plans and encourage physical, emotional, social, and academic growth
•Maintain individual student portfolios including skills checklist, labeled work samples, and narrative reports on areas needing improvement
•Interact extensively with parents to provide regular progress reports
•Showcase children’s work to boost their self-esteem and to keep them motivated
January 2007 – July 2007 Valley Anesthesia Consultants
Office Supervisor
•Build, train, and motivate a phenomenally successful professional team of eight in an office setting
•Redesigned patient flow process by identifying the problem areas, developing a concept of an ideal system, and implemented the concept
•Acquired and maintained new referral sources from hospitals and other private practices for the growth of office
•Active working supervisor who oversaw surgery scheduling of four pain management anesthesiologists and one physician's assistant
Education
2016-2020 Grand Canyon University – Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration