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Geraldine Gill

Miami,FL

Summary

Experienced Office Manager with 10+ years of experience in diverse dental front office and clinical environments. Incredible organizational, interpersonal, customer service and conflict resolution skills. Hands on experience in managing patients and a team. Skillful in guiding people on the phone and in person. I am dedicated to maintaining a high level of professionalism and ensuring smooth operations within the office. I thrive in fast-paced environments and take pride in my ability to prioritize tasks effectively.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Dental Operations Consultant

Next Level Dental Consulting
10.2022 - Current

Hybrid

  • Handled account payments and provided information regarding outstanding balances.
  • Trained and mentored new team members and managers on accounts payable systems and policies to build cohesive groups and promote operational performance.
  • Generated accounts payable reports for management review.
  • Collected data to complete detailed financial reports for management.
  • Maintained patient data with required regulatory chart documents, personal information and treatment consultation documentation
  • Supervised and led a team of dental staff with multiple offices.
  • Developed comprehensive project plans for successful implementation of new initiatives and technologies.
  • Facilitated change management initiatives while ensuring minimal impact on day-to-day operations and staff morale.
  • Improved operational efficiency by analyzing processes and implementing strategic changes.

Dental Practice Manager

Relax And Smile Dental Care
09.2022 - 01.2024

Extensive organizational and supervisory experience while serving as Practice Manager and Consulting for the last 8 years; a dedicated professional with attention to detail consistently resulted in increased productivity and exceeding organizational standards.

All stated below in previous position including the following:

  • Manage doctor schedules (personal, productive, planning, and training)
  • Manage Hiring
  • Tracking daily/monthly revenue and new patients
  • Maintain and manage account receivables
  • Educated and trained new employees, introduced, and set up training on all new equipment.
  • Initiated, maintained, and allocated a monthly bonus and goal system for the practice and employees to achieve.
  • Allocated re-submissions and reimbursements from patients and insurance companies, applied payments as necessary.
  • Organized and put into place OSHA rules and regulations with requirements for all sterilization, coding, maintained monthly updates of used and unused material for sterilization rooms, x-ray rooms, instruments, and made all operatories comply with all state mandated rules and regulations.
  • Supervised and led team of 3 dental hygienists, support staff of 4 assistants, 3 front desk and 3 doctors.
  • Streamlined dental practice operations for improved efficiency and cost savings through staff training and workflow optimization.
  • Enhanced patient satisfaction by implementing efficient scheduling and appointment management systems.

Practice Manager

Friedman Dental Group
01.2020 - 09.2022

My role is essential in securing treatment plans and coordination of financial options. Exhibiting an efficient, knowledgeable and positive countenance to every patient experience. Additionally, set production goals, greeting new patients, scheduling to production and other office responsibilities as required.

Responsibilities :

  • Explain treatment plans, address patient concerns, answer any questions
  • Communicate effectively with patient for financial options including dental insurance coverage and out of pocket expenses
  • Manage daily, weekly, and monthly calendar to meet practice production and collection goals
  • Organize and run daily morning huddle, reports on production results addresses and evaluate patient flow from previous day. Update staff on status of current days production goals and identify scheduling gaps
  • Boosted staff morale by offering constructive feedback and specific direction
  • Provided outstanding support to entire staff which helped improve process flow and boosted efficiency
  • Created and implemented organizational policies and procedures
  • Ordered all office supplies and kept check on inventory levels



Treatment Coordinator/Front Desk Office Manager

Bruno Smiles
12.2016 - 12.2019

TREATMENT COORDINATOR

  • Persuasive Treatment Coordinator coordinating communications with patients and parents to ensure a commitment to dental treatment plans
  • Committed to clearly presenting treatment and financial options
  • Routinely follow-up throughout the course of treatment, responding to all patient and parent inquiries in a timely courteous manner
  • Developed scripts for phone calls, emails and text to patients or parents

FRONT DESK MANAGER

Responsible for overseeing front office staff, morning huddle meeting and biweekly payroll.

  • Developed and enforced office policies
  • Responsible for overall achievement of Production and Collection targets
  • Handle patient billing issues, printed monthly patient statement, and report
  • Impressive ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks

Treatment/Front Office Coordinator

Dental Leaders
06.2013 - 12.2016

Responsible for overseeing front desk office staff, morning huddle meeting, responsible for all administrative and clerical tasks of Dental office.


Lead Orthodontic & Oral Surgery Assistant

Small Smiles Center
08.2010 - 06.2013

Experience in all aspects of surgeries and post-operative care

Orthodontic Coordinator/Technical Lead

Dr. Wall
04.2006 - 08.2010

Orthodontic Experience: * Invisalign, case submission/delivery * Orthodontic work up* Trained on new braces and wires technology

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Admiration

Santa Maria University
Caracas, Venezuela
07.2021

Skills

  • Insurance billing and coding
  • Outstanding customer service skills
  • Great organizational and time management skills
  • Familiarity with dental procedures, their benefits and risks
  • Ability to explain complex concepts to patients and employees
  • Open Dental/ Dentrix/ Eaglesoft/ Weave
  • Bilingual (English and Spanish)
  • Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
  • Implementation Guidance
  • Workflow Coordination
  • Customer Accounts Management
  • Employee Performance Evaluations
  • Claim Verifications
  • Cost Reduction Strategies
  • Enforce Policies
  • Operations Management
  • Staff Training and Development

Certification

  • CPR/First Aid Certified
  • OSHA and HIPAA Compliant
  • The Treatment Coordinator Intensive with Peniche and Associates. Master all aspects of the New Patient Process from the initial phone call, throughout treatment and beyond. Experience on how to build and maintain a successful Observation Program, and how to turn pending patients into starts.
  • Invisalign Trainer. Worked with the DMV Invisalign reps providing Invisalign Fundamentals courses to dentists and their teams with the essential education and tools needed to start treating patients with Invisalign. Invisalign Fundamentals of 4 hours course focused on clinical education and hands-on training to cover the all the basics needed to start an Invisalign case.

Timeline

Dental Operations Consultant

Next Level Dental Consulting
10.2022 - Current

Dental Practice Manager

Relax And Smile Dental Care
09.2022 - 01.2024

Practice Manager

Friedman Dental Group
01.2020 - 09.2022

Treatment Coordinator/Front Desk Office Manager

Bruno Smiles
12.2016 - 12.2019

Treatment/Front Office Coordinator

Dental Leaders
06.2013 - 12.2016

Lead Orthodontic & Oral Surgery Assistant

Small Smiles Center
08.2010 - 06.2013

Orthodontic Coordinator/Technical Lead

Dr. Wall
04.2006 - 08.2010

Bachelor of Arts - Business Admiration

Santa Maria University
  • CPR/First Aid Certified
  • OSHA and HIPAA Compliant
  • The Treatment Coordinator Intensive with Peniche and Associates. Master all aspects of the New Patient Process from the initial phone call, throughout treatment and beyond. Experience on how to build and maintain a successful Observation Program, and how to turn pending patients into starts.
  • Invisalign Trainer. Worked with the DMV Invisalign reps providing Invisalign Fundamentals courses to dentists and their teams with the essential education and tools needed to start treating patients with Invisalign. Invisalign Fundamentals of 4 hours course focused on clinical education and hands-on training to cover the all the basics needed to start an Invisalign case.
Geraldine Gill