Medical Transcriptionist

DEBORAH E. DEWITT

**** **** ******, ***. *-*, Clarkston, GA 30021

(h) 404-***-****, e-mail address: ************@***.***

SKILLS

• Medical Transcription, Medical Terminology

• ICD-9, CM, CPT Codes, Medical Terminology, HCSPCS;

• Medical Manager, Insurance Laws and Regulations;

• Microsoft Word , Access , PowerPoint , Windows XP, Outlook ;

• WordPerfect 8, Excel , Data Entry (Keystrokes 8,050)

REFERENCE MATERIAL

• Mereck Manual of Medical Information

• Stedman’s Suite

• Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

• Saunders Drug Handbook

• AAMT Book of Style for Medical Transcriptionist (Olympus DSS Digital Player Version 7)

EXPERIENCE

09/03-Present VAMC/Emory University Hospital Atlanta, GA

Sr. Medical Secretary

• Under minimal supervision, support for the Chief of Cardiology, Director of the Catheterization Laboratory, Director of Clinical Electrophysiology and staff.

• Responsible for the nine open clinical trials that were submitted by me and all were approved, up and running; clinical trial submissions, yearly renewals, and the closing of the trial are also done by me.

• Responsible for submitting and getting the VA approval from the

Research & Development Committee (R&D).

05/03—06/03 Medical Business Services (MBS) Atlanta, GA

Medical Clerk Externship

• Updated patient files with current information for rebilling and data entry on demographics for new patients.

• Created correspondence on Insurance follow-ups, diagnosis codes, UPN numbers, NEIC-Claim Rejections, and the Explanation of Benefits regarding Medicaid claims.

• Posted payment to the patient accounts.

• Confirmed and added modifiers to the CPT codes for Medicare and the Georgia Better Health Care for patients from the Medifax Medicaid Eligibility Verification Reports.

03/94—09/98 Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD

Medical Transcriptionist/Legal Secretary (Outside Contracting)

• Heavy transcribing in OB/GYN. Typed patient notes, letters memos and proposals.

(10 mos.)

• Scheduled appointments and answered the telephones.

• Revised legal documents.

02/92—02/93 University Physicians, Inc. Baltimore, MD

Office Medical Secretary

• Assisted in grants and reports. Scheduled appointments, typed letters and memos, answered the telephones.

EDUCATION

Present

Brown College of Court Reporting & Medical Transcription Atlanta, GA

Medical Transcription

Pending Associate Degree (after 240 hour externship) 06/2008

Georgia Medical Institute Atlanta, GA

Medical Insurance Billing/Coder

Diploma 06/2003

Katharine Gibbs (Secretarial School) New York, NY

Certificate Program 01/1990

Andrew Jackson High Queens, NY

Diploma, Cooperative Education, Merit Roll 06/1977

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