Janice Torres
New Haven,CT
Summary
Obtain a Medicare billing position where my experience and commitment will be utilized and
advanced.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Biling/Medical Assistant
AMR
New Haven, CT
07.2016 - Current
- Medical billing for school age children and Adult patients Triage Adult patients for visit Triage Children for visit Vital signs HIV testing HEP C Testing Hemoglobin testing Vision screening Verifying insurance Billing and working EOB's Transportation authorization.
Medical Assistant
TAD
01.2010 - 01.2010
- Responsibilities include verifying insurance Obtaining authorizations Giving price quotes Entering calls into database, updating insurance in Am2000 system, Prepared medical records for appointments the following day, handle over 2,000 active patients and 150,000 archival records.
- Reorganized charts and revamped original system into a universal filing system.
- Heavy phone contact with patients, doctors, and pharmacies.
- Ordering medications and informing patients of test results.
- Performed clerical support as necessary.
Project Manager
CONNECTICUT MEDICAL GROUP, LLC
Hamden, CT
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Responsible for training and maintaining updates for nine different medical offices on Mysis EMR (ALLSCRIPTS).
- Administrator for Mysis EMR, developing templates for individual doctors, adding new MRC for each office.
- Administrator for E-Prescribing adding and deleting of pharmacies.
- Making deposits and spreadsheets for insurance Reviewing past due accounts, posting lab charges, and verifying insurance information.
Billing Manger/Assistant office manager
CONNECTICUT MEDICAL GROUP, LLC
New Haven, CT
01.1989 - 01.2008
- Prepare schedule for employees, supervised all employees and trained all new employees.
- Made all deposits and transactions for banking accounts.
- Responsible for bank books and some accounting, also performed payroll and time cards.
- Ability to maintain accurate and complete financial records.
- Updating Doctors and nurses credentials for insurance companies.
- Credentialing with hospitals and insurance companies for all doctors and nurses.
- Ordering of supplies needed for office.
- Worked as Billing Co-ordinator for offices.
- Did all the posting of charges and payments to patient's accounts.
- Worked with doctors on coding charges for office visits.
- Also responsible for learning new CPT and ICD 9 codes.
- Help patients with understanding their bills and their insurance.
- Worked with Hedis-Medical records.
- Followed up on outstanding insurance claims.
- Able to answer routine questions regarding billing and insurances.
- Able to perform regular aging analysis of outstanding insurance claims.
- Ability to establish liaisons with insurance companies.
- Handling of all workers comp.
- And liability claims.
Education
Professional Coder in Medical Billing - General
Some College, Community
2016
Associate - Medical Assistant
American Academy of Professional Coders, Academy
June 2001
<ul><li>ICD-10 (7 years)</li><li>Insurance Verification (7 years)</li><li>CPT Coding (7 years)</li><li>HEDIS (7</li></ul> - undefined
1998
Skills
- PC applications, MS Word, EMR
- Outstanding interpersonal skills
- Accounting
- Banking
- Billing
- C
- Charts
- Clerical
- Interpersonal skills
- CPR
- CPT Coding
- CPT
- Database
- Detail oriented
- Filing
- Financial
- ICD-9
- Insurance
- Medical Billing
- Medical Terminology
- Office
- 2000
- MS Word
- Works
- Payroll
- Coding
- Scheduling
- Self-motivated
- Spreadsheets
- Team player
- Phone
- Transportation
- Vision
Timeline
Biling/Medical Assistant
AMR
07.2016 - Current
Medical Assistant
TAD
01.2010 - 01.2010
Project Manager
CONNECTICUT MEDICAL GROUP, LLC
01.2008 - 01.2010
Billing Manger/Assistant office manager
CONNECTICUT MEDICAL GROUP, LLC
01.1989 - 01.2008
Professional Coder in Medical Billing - General
Some College, Community
Associate - Medical Assistant
American Academy of Professional Coders, Academy