Cindy Riegsecker
Delta,OH
Summary
Competent Medical Coder with Four years of experience in handling wide variety of medical coding and billing tasks. Sophisticated and hardworking individual with excellent analytical and multitasking abilities. Coordinates with insurance companies and expedites claims processes. Expertise in accurately inputting procedure and diagnosis codes into billing software to generate invoices.
Reliable Medical Coder with a background in document oversight, data security procedures and resolving coding errors. Detail-oriented performer with medical terminology knowledge. Considered a team player with exemplary multitasking skills. Energetic Medical Coder offering wealth of experience in interacting with office staff and patients, supply restocking and scheduling appointments. Hardworking, educated and willing to go extra mile to complete tasks.
Overview
1
1
Certificate
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Coder/Abstractor
FCHC
Wauseon, Ohio
10.2014 - 10.2022
- Reviewed outpatient records and interpreted documentation to identify diagnoses and procedures.
- Reviewed, analyzed and managed coding of diagnostic and treatment procedures contained in outpatient medical records.
- Utilized active listening, interpersonal and telephone etiquette skills when communicating with others.
- Interacted with physicians and other healthcare staff to ask questions regarding patient services.
- Applied official coding conventions and rules from American Medical Association and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to assign diagnostic codes.
- Verified signatures and checked medical charts for accuracy and completion.
- Accurately selected proper descriptive code when more than one anatomical location was indicated.
- Guarded against fraud and abuse by verifying coded data accurately reflected services provided.
- Correctly coded and billed medical claims for various hospital and nursing facilities.
- Used 3M encoder to assign procedure and diagnostic codes to patient records for billing purposes.
- Entered orders into EMR system efficiently and without errors.
- Used Meditech and Expanse to input information into computerized patient record system.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Health Information Technology
Davenport University
Grand Rapids, MI04.2015
Skills
- Office Health Records Preparation
- Certified Professional Coder
- Operational Requirements
- Working denied claims and edits
Certification
- RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician
Timeline
Medical Coder/Abstractor
FCHC
10.2014 - 10.2022
Associate of Applied Science - Health Information Technology
Davenport University