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Annie Harezlak, RHIA

Wenona,IL

Summary

Results-driven coding professional with extensive experience in medical coding, data analysis, and compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving organizational goals. Skilled in process improvement, quality assurance, and staff training. Highly adaptable and reliable, ensuring seamless operations and effective problem-solving.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

HB Outpatient Coding Supervisor

Carle Health
08.2023 - Current
  • Supervise Same Day, Observation, Interventional Cardiology, Radiology, Wound Care, Convenient Care, and Emergency workflows.
  • Monitor productivity for 20+ coders, with additional reporting of global vendor productivity
  • Perform quality audits quarterly and as needed
  • Provide Education on claim edits, trending denials, and audit findings
  • Responsible for training and onboarding new coders
  • Assisted in determining FTE’s for budget needs
  • Created process and standardization for global auditor onboarding, productivity tracking and audit expectations.
  • Collaborate with leadership from Revenue Integrity, Optime, Cupid and RadIT throughout all 8 facilities to establish workflows for all new procedures and departments
  • Identify roadblocks for coding, create solutions and implement new process.
  • Manage payroll in Kronos and Workday applications.
  • Participate in Epic testing

OP Coder

Carle Health
06.2021 - 08.2023
  • Code and Abstract outpatient medical information for data collection and hospital reimbursement using EPIC and Optum Enterprise CAC.
  • Consistently met productivity and quality standards for Same Day (single path coding), Observation, Convenient Care, Emergency, Code Capture, Wound Healing, Ancillary and Therapy worktypes.
  • Addressed Claim Edits and denials for all worktypes listed above as well as Provided Based Billing departments.
  • Routinely read reference materials and attend meetings to keep abreast of changes within Outpatient Coding Department

HIM Operations and Coding Supervisor

Carle BroMenn Medical Center/Carle Eureka Hospital
12.2020 - 05.2021
  • Same duties as Lead Coder with greater responsibilities.
  • Supervise 20 team members
  • Manage employee timecards
  • Assist with daily, weekly and monthly reports
  • Monthly rounding with team members to identify any areas of concerns
  • Assist with identifying EPIC go-live needs for our department
  • Monitor Pended accounts in WQ’s

Lead Coder

Carle BroMenn Medical Center/Carle Eureka Hospital
07.2020 - 12.2020
  • Same duties as Coder and Charge Capture Specialist with more emphasis of leadership functions
  • Supervise the day to day activities of Inpatient and Outpatient Coders to ensure daily and weekly revenue cycle goals are met
  • Train new outpatient hires (Observation, Same Day Surgeries, ER, Urgent Care, Ancillary and Pain Clinic accounts)
  • Provide education on ICD-10, CPT, Modifiers, NCCI edits and any other pertinent coding knowledge to staff
  • Provide audits as needed for Outpatient Coding Team.
  • Field all coding questions and provide reference materials to coders for future knowledge
  • Educate departments throughout hospital to ensure charging methods are accurate
  • Work with Patient Accounts to assist with Coding denials
  • EPIC Super-user
  • Train coding team on Medication Administration charging in preparation for project go-live
  • Met routinely with Carle leadership and EPIC team to ensure a smooth transition

Lead Coder

Advocate BroMenn Medical Center/Advocate Eureka Hospital
01.2017 - 07.2020
  • Same duties as Coder and Charge Capture Specialist with more emphasis of leadership functions
  • Supervises the day to day activities of Inpatient and Outpatient Coders to ensure daily and weekly revenue cycle goals are met
  • Train new outpatient hires (Observation, Same Day Surgeries, ER, Urgent Care, Ancillary and Pain Clinic accounts)
  • Provide education on ICD-10, CPT, Modifiers, NCCI edits and any other pertinent coding knowledge to staff
  • Provide audits as needed for Outpatient Coding Team.
  • Field all coding questions and provide reference materials to coders for future knowledge
  • Educate departments throughout hospital to ensure charging methods are accurate
  • Work with Patient Accounts to assist with Coding denials
  • EPIC Super-user
  • Train coding team on Medication Administration charging in preparation for go-live
  • Meets routinely with Carle leadership and EPIC team to ensure a smooth transition

Coder and Charge Capture Specialist

Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
09.2011 - 01.2017
  • Code and Abstract outpatient medical information for data collection and hospital reimbursement using Meditech Client Server and 3M 360 encoder
  • 95 % or higher proficiency in ICD-10 and CPT with a primary focus on outpatient records (Observation, Same Day Surgery, ER, Urgent Care, Ancillary, Wound Clinic, Pain Clinic and Recurring Therapy accounts)
  • Assign E/M levels, Chemotherapy/Therapeutic Infusions, Injection and Hydration charges to qualifying accounts
  • Routinely read reference materials and attended meetings to keep abreast of changes within Health Information Management
  • Provided education and training on Injection and Infusions throughout Advocate BroMenn and Advocate Eureka facilities
  • Key member of Meditech Electronic Record Implementation.
  • Developed Electronic Chart as an Alpha-Beta site.
  • Built electronic chart dictionaries to promote a user-friendly product.
  • Re-developed our Forms Committee.
  • Wrote User Manuals for HIM Operations employees.
  • Trained and assisted with Go-live.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Health Information Management

Illinois State University
Normal, IL
01.2001

Skills

  • Epic
  • Meditech
  • 3M 360/Solventum
  • Optum Enterprise CAC, CACPro, Encoder Professional
  • Vitalware
  • Kronos
  • Workday
  • Microsoft Office

Affiliations

  • American Health Information Management Association - Member
  • Central Illinois Health Information Management Association – Member
  • Treasurer 2023-2025

Timeline

HB Outpatient Coding Supervisor

Carle Health
08.2023 - Current

OP Coder

Carle Health
06.2021 - 08.2023

HIM Operations and Coding Supervisor

Carle BroMenn Medical Center/Carle Eureka Hospital
12.2020 - 05.2021

Lead Coder

Carle BroMenn Medical Center/Carle Eureka Hospital
07.2020 - 12.2020

Lead Coder

Advocate BroMenn Medical Center/Advocate Eureka Hospital
01.2017 - 07.2020

Coder and Charge Capture Specialist

Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
09.2011 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Science - Health Information Management

Illinois State University

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