LIZABETH K. MASTERS

Supervises daily procurement operations. Orders/stocks inventory items for various Operating Room specialties such as Bone and Tissue, Neurology, ENT, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Responsible for cost savings initiatives for the Operating Room: Fiscal year 2021-2022 saved $271,084.85

• Monitors innovative technology requests and consignment requests.
• Procures, conserves and monitors bone and tissue consignment in Q-site.
• Liaison between surgeons and sales representatives to obtain special equipment and supplies for surgical cases. Provides purchase orders for all specialty items obtained on a case-by-case basis.
• Enforces Vendor policy and hold staff accountable for the same.
• Monitors Operating Room schedule to ensure special request items are available for surgeons. Notifies sales representatives for surgeon support requests.
• Enters new Contracts into system. Collaborates with Supply Chain to procure contract items and establish par levels.
• Monthly budget reconciliation.
• Monitors any product recalls and acts accordingly.
• Supervises order management functions, forecasts supply needs and empowers staff to eliminate avoidable stock-outs.
• Pursues continuous improvements of the distribution of supplies to identify and implement reduction initiatives.
• Forecasted requirements and set reorder points to maintain optimal levels.
• Directed inventory regulation processes and accounting input data processing and reviewed output records from supply systems.
• Handled maintenance reports for orders requested and completed.
• Conducted inventory audits with 100% accuracy following company procedures.and increase revenue.

Supervises daily procurement operations. Orders/stocks inventory items for various Operating Room specialties such as Bone and Tissue, Neurology, ENT, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Responsible for cost savings initiatives for the Operating Room: Fiscal year 2021-2022 saved $271,084.85

• Monitors innovative technology requests and consignment requests.
• Procures, conserves and monitors bone and tissue consignment in Q-site.
• Liaison between surgeons and sales representatives to obtain special equipment and supplies for surgical cases. Provides purchase orders for all specialty items obtained on a case-by-case basis.
• Monitors and adjusts par levels to reflect accurate department needs.
• Enforces Vendor policy and hold staff accountable for the same.
• Monitors Operating Room schedule to ensure special request items are available for surgeons. Notifies sales representatives for surgeon support requests.
• Request new Infor numbers and re-activation of deactivated numbers.
• Enters new Contracts into system. Collaborates with Supply Chain to procure contract items and establish par levels.
• Monthly budget reconciliation.
• Monitors any product recalls and acts accordingly.
• Supervises order management functions, forecasts supply needs and empowers staff to eliminate avoidable stock-outs.
• Pursues continuous improvements of the distribution of supplies to identify and implement reduction initiatives.
• Completed frequent inventory counts and resolved discrepancies.
• Kept stock areas clean, tidy and organized according to facility requirements.
• Established inventory targets, stock level and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
• Negotiated contracts, policies and deadlines with suppliers and vendors.
• Devised and implemented short-term and long-term plans, optimizing supply chain management and improving value relating to annual expenditures.
• Devised and executed annual purchasing plans and contracts.
• Capitalized on opportunities to make significant cost savings to areas of supplies, services and capital requirements when optimizing resource management for group purchasing organization (GPO) service line directors.
• Drove cost reduction efforts for supply chain AOP to meet annual operations targets.

Supervises daily procurement operations to include par level compliance, order placement, purchase order creation and order receipts in both Lawson, Infor. Mc Kesson and IOS ordering systems. Services include General Surgery, ENT, Gynecology, Opthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Neurology Orthopedics, and SPD.

• Payroll/Staff Scheduling-Kronos System
• Surgical Scheduling-Meditech & Epic Systems
• Ordering Surgical supplies/implants-Lawson-Mc Kesson, Infor
• Review and approve Operating Room Charges/Patient Billing
• Implant Tracking for Bone and Tissue as well as other implants.
• Create/Maintain Policies & Procedures
• Ordering office supplies
• Occurrence Reporting-RL Solutions
• Responsible for facilitating surgical meetings and training sessions
• Maintain/Create Surgical Preference Cards
• Cost Savings Analysis: over $100,000 in saving FY 2013 and 2014.
• Team leader Lawson Upgrade
• Kronos Super User
• EPIC Super User
• Maintained office supplies inventory by checking stock and ordering new supplies.

• Verified insurance coverage and obtained pre-authorizations.
• Checked patients in and out and collected payments.
• Coordinated with facilities to set up surgeries for eight surgeon in the practice.
• Coordinated referrals through insurance and other medical specialists and documented details in patient charts.
• Managed office bookkeeping with insurance billing and patient payments.
• Expertly managed planning, scheduling and coordination of outpatient procedures.
• Educated patients about surgeries and provided treatment plan documentation.
• Receiving and application of insurance payment to patient accounts

• Precertification of in office and hospital procedures.
• Medical Billing of all insurances including Medicare & Medicaid.
• Prepared billing statements for patients and verified correct diagnostic coding.
• Reviewed patient records, identified medical codes and created invoices for billing purposes.
• Delivered timely and accurate charge submissions.
• Adhered to established standards to safeguard patients' health information.
• Prepared accounts with past due balances and transferred those cases to collection agency.
• Prevented financial delinquencies by working closely with managers to resolve billing issues before becoming unmanageable.
• Coordinating doctor/hospital meetings.
• Filed and updated patient information and medical records.
• Posted payments and collections on regular basis.