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OBJECTIVE

To bring my ** years of healthcare inventory and purchasing experience to a dynamic and goal oriented environment where both my career and my team will benefit.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Managed medical equipment and drug purchasing, as well as office and warehouse supplies.

• Extensive experience corresponding and interfacing with vendors.

• In depth knowledge of pharmacy logistics, acquisitions, operations, regulations and inventory control.

• Experienced in creating and implementing policies and procedures to aide in daily pharmacy operations.

• Proficient in MS Office Suite including Outlook and Windows 2000/XP.

• HIPAA Experienced

• Certified Pharmacy Technician.

• Proficient with GAGAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Health Care Resolution Services, Columbia, MD

Senior Pharmacy Auditor February 1, 2011 - Current

• Conduct reviews of pharmacy records, claims reports, charges and associated documentation, researching and applying knowledge related to billing and coding guidelines, and searching for billing, coding and unsupported (or clinical) documentation in provider billing for Medicaid.

• Frequently traveled to several states to oversee and perform field audits.

• Analyze documentation to determine regulatory compliance.

• Manage audit workflows, interacting at the audit and auditor level to ensure accuracy, timeliness and that results are consistent with state and federal regulations

• Obtain and analyze audit evidence as a basis for informed, independent, objective third party regulation.

• Document audit conclusions relevant to objectives and significant findings

• Perform reasonableness and medical necessity determinations

• QA all work sent to CMS

• Proficient with CDC Style Guide

• Knowledge of GAGAS

Maxim Health Care, Columbia, MD

Distribution Supervisor June 2010 – January 29, 2011

• Managed a staff of 6.

• Handles all vaccine distribution to over 400 offices located throughout the United States.

• Created all Policies and Procedures for the Distribution Center to pass the state survey, which was accomplished September 2010.

• Responsible for maintaining a perpetual inventory and certifying the appropriate, secured distribution.

• Responsible for ensuring all vaccines comply with the CDC regulations that monitor storage, shipping, and receiving.

• Quarantine and separate any outdated, damaged, deteriorated, misbranded, or adulterated prescription drugs or devices.

• Establish and maintain inventories and records of transactions regarding the receipt, security, storage, inventory, and distribution of prescription drugs or devices.

• Audit vaccines logs for accuracy as well as individual employees for compliance with policies

Righttime Medical (Nighttime Medical) Crofton, MD

Central Inventory Manager Apr 2009 – May 2010

• Responsible for managing Righttime Medical (formerly Nighttime Medical) inventory purchases for all eight urgent care sites. This included medication, medical and office supplies.

• In charge of maintaining a constant “availability” (par levels) of all supplies.

• Responsible for reviewing and approving all office supply request.

• Responsible for negotiating prices on all contracted items.

• Completed multiple special projects which resulted in developing policies and procedures that culminated in universal and precise inventory management.

• Developed and provided training on the Inventory management system.

• Responsible for interfacing with vendors on a daily basis.

• Submitted all invoices for payment.

• Filling prescriptions

• Completed monthly spreadsheets reflecting cost of inventory transferred among the sites.

• Provided a monthly financial statistical Power Point Presentation updating the CEO and senior management.

• Responsible for daily updating inventory reporting (seven days a week) and on-call for any emergencies 24/7.

• Audit inventory logs compared to medication received and distributed.

CareMax Pharmacies (Maxim Health Care), Columbia, MD

Central Pharmacy Buyer Feb 2008 –April 2009

• Assisting in the negotiations of contracts and contract pricing with all pharmacy vendors.

• Handling and approval of purchase orders and requests through the CPR Plus system.

• Handling and approval of all invoices from vendors.

• In charge of reviewing and posting all monthly inventory reports.

• Responsible for managing the inventory for all four pharmacy’s located throughout the United States.

• Assisted in the transition from an individual branch ordering system to a more streamlined and cost efficient central purchasing system.

• Implemented the transition from a daily ordering system to a more efficient weekly ordering program for a quarterly cost savings of over $50K.

• Researching new potential vendors that may offer cost savings to the company.

Advanced Pharmacy, Columbia, MD

Pharmacy Technician Supervisor Sept 2007 – Feb 2008

• Responsible for the daily pharmacy operations and conducting routine weekly audits of our systems.

• Responsible for maintaining and managing daily customer/client concerns to help facilitate resolutions and to troubleshoot problems.

• Responsible for the acquisition of new client accounts and the retention of current accounts.

• Responsible for creating and monitoring employee schedules and training.

• Ordered all supplies needed to facilitate daily pharmacy operations.

• Purchased all pharmaceuticals and maintained the inventory within the budget.

• Implemented the quality assurance process and served as the secretary during all quality assurance meetings.

• Assisted in creating and implementing company policy and procedures.

• Developed and organized flow charts and spreadsheets to analyze monthly statistical information.

• Set up and maintained our Passport medication dispensing system in user facilities and trained the staff on its use.

• Assisted in the set up of Advanced Pharmacy in the state of Maryland.

• Routinely filled controlled and non-controlled prescriptions that were not automatically filled by our dispensing system.

NeighborCare (An Omnicare Company) Pharmacy, Annapolis Junction, MD

Senior Customer Care Coordinator/ Customer Account Manager June 2006 – Sept 2007

• Responsible for maintaining the Client Analysis Database and distribution of all corrective and statistical information.

• Responsible for the procurement and negotiated pricing of all promotional items.

• Served as the lead Customer Service Coordinator responsible for continually maintaining client relations and procurement of prospective facilities.

• Managed 10 major client accounts totaling over 1500 individual beds.

• Responsible for managing daily customer concerns to help facilitate resolutions and to troubleshoot problems.

• Responsible for managing errors and systematic audits of pharmacy and facility based problems.

• Trained client’s facilities on the current medication dispensing systems and our company’s policies and procedures.

• Coordinated and conducted the pharmacy biweekly informational briefings.

• Coordinated all facility in-service training programs.

Pharmacy Technician Lead Supervisor August 2001 - June 2006

• Responsible for managing 75 Pharmacy Technicians and all daily pharmacy operations.

• Responsible for various databases to help manage and maintain our inventory control.

• Responsible for ensuring that over seven thousand prescriptions are efficiently shipped out per day on a timely basis.

• Responsible for interviewing all potential employees and conducting promotional reviews.

• Responsible for training personnel at facilities.

• Responsible for maintaining and promoting customer/client relations.

• Developed various spreadsheets to help facilitate our daily operations.

EDUCATION

Anne Arundel Community College Currently Enrolled

- 24 credits towards the Business Management Curriculum

- Working towards an MBA in Business

Meade Senior High, Ft. Meade, MD Honors Graduate

Certified Pharmacy Technician

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