Lance Mayo

• Reviewed CPT E/M levels, procedures, and surgeries for accuracy. Ensured billing edits were addressed to minimize bill denials. Provided missing CPT procedure/surgery codes when needed. Reviewed ICD- 10 diagnosis codes for accuracy. Provided feedback to physicians, nurses, and other health care providers of any changes to their codes. Feedback consists of code recommendations, documentation improvements, annual code update changes, etc. Also assisted physician's with coding questions, billing and documentation issues.
• Provided training to onboarding new hire coders. Educating them on specialties they would be working in, and familiarizing them to specific coding guidelines of those specialties.

• Accounts for coding CPT/ICD-10 and abstracting of patient encounters, including diagnostic and procedural information, significant reportable elements and complications.
• Researches and analyzes data needs for reimbursement. Analyzes medical record and identifies documentation deficiencies.
• Serves as resource and subject matter expert to other coding and hospital staff/departments. I
• Was also given opportunity to take on lead coder position and assisted clinic coders in maintaining our AR strat goals, streamline workflow processes, and helped assist with coding questions and issues brought up by coders. I attended administrative meetings, contributed to workflow efficiency, and established strong working communication between Administration and Coders.

Provide ICD-9/ICD-10 CMS codes as well as CPT codes for various hospital based INPT and OUTPT accounts. I also created a monthly newsletter that was distributed to the hospital physicians. This was to help assist them with proper documenting skills, and to lessen the physician queries that were generated by the coders.

Provided transport of Inpatient medical records to and from the hospital. As well as retrieved said charts from storage at the request of the nurses, physicians, and coders. Also maintained the medical record by filing reports in the correct order as needed.

Provided transport of Outpatient medical records to and from the hospital/clinics. Maintained the output record, filing incoming documents, and assisted other departments to locate records/reports. Assisted the Master Patient Index department off hours to assign medical records to newborn babies.