Mariana Contreras
Fort Lauderdale,FL
Summary
Highly skilled professional with a solid background in legal support. Adept at handling a wide range of tasks in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated expertise in legal research, document management, and case preparation, ensuring meticulous accuracy and strict compliance. Recognized for exceptional teamwork and adaptability. Consistently focused on achieving results and meeting deadlines. Dependable and detail-oriented. Capable of effectively managing multiple tasks and priorities. Extensive experience in office management, accounting, accounts receivable, invoicing, dispatching, database management, vendor negotiations, and contract management. Strong organizational skills and a proactive problem-solving approach make this candidate a reliable asset.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Paralegal (Remote)
The Berman Law Firm, Pa - Miami Personal Injury Attorney
07.2024 - Current
- Accurately coordinating and maintain cases and providing care over 200 cases
- Reduced attorney workload by drafting routine legal documents such as pleadings, motions, and affidavits.
- Managed scheduling of court calendars and deadlines to maintain smooth flow of firm operations.
- Enhanced case efficiency by organizing and maintaining legal documents, files, and correspondence.
- Assisted counsel in preparing answers, providing documentation, and information for discovery request.
- Edited and proofread legal documents to verify accuracy.
- Summarized depositions, legal documents and other material to provide attorney with relevant material for cases.
- Ensured compliance with court deadlines by diligently tracking and managing case schedules.
- Ensured accurate client billing through diligent tracking of billable hours and expenses during case management.
- Expedited negotiations with insurance adjusters for fair compensation, leading to higher client satisfaction rates.
Case Manager
The law offices of Anidjar & Levine
03.2023 - Current
- Accurately coordinating and maintain cases and providing care over 200 cases
- Conduct case management tasks by collecting medical billing information
- Proactively contacting provider, and following up on treatment plans by contacting them weekly
- Determine case closure
- Accessing client needs and contacting them about their care weekly
- Developed trusting relationships with clients, health care providers and insurance agencies.
- Maintained up-to-date case records with case activity status.
- Adhered to ethical principles and standards to protect clients' confidential information.
Medical Billing & Collections Analytics Manager
AssociateMD
08.2019 - 02.2023
- Serves as the department control point for the head of legal department, including acting as the first point of contact for incoming callers, attorney offices, and others by telephone, written correspondence, and in person
- Analyze and process daily PI billing and collections, deposit, denials, and provided daily financial reports to CFO
- Coordinated approval or rejection of all negotiations for settlements and reductions of personal injury.
- Contributes ideas and suggestions relevant to collecting and/or analyzing data, preparing and/or reviewing executive or senior management information
- Supervising employees, both remote and in office while mentoring new hires, designing and leading training programs
- Serve as the face of the company for all legal matters by attending all mediations and/or deposition.
- Conducted on-the-job training classes and demonstrated principles, techniques, procedures and methods of diverse subjects.
- Trained employees on Eclinical & AdvancedMd use and instructional techniques.
- Met demands of busy billing and collections group by performing high volume of daily calls.
- Liaised with management to identify issues attributing to account delinquency and discuss solutions to bring in revenue.
- Built high-performance team by collaborating with new members on procedural, administrative, collections and compliance areas.
- Led team of 10 staff handling more than $1.5 in monthly charges.
- Enforced operational compliance with state and federal laws and medicare standards.
- Created and updated financial reports on frequent basis to present information to leadership teams.
- Completed month-end and year-end closings, kept records audit-ready and monitored timely recording of accounting transactions.
- Developed invoicing systems and internal controls to boost billing efficiencies.
- Developed or analyzed information to assess current or future financial status of firms.
- Analyzed actual financial results to budget, preparing variance reporting to functional groups.
- Created financial management mechanisms to minimize financial risk to business.
- Consolidated business data into actionable metrics to simplify and highlight areas of concern and opportunity.
Medical Office Manager
Spine and Orthopedic Specialist of South Florida
05.2018 - 06.2019
- Promote excellent customer service by all levels of the staff ensuring patient satisfaction, including troubleshooting when there is a complaint and developing process improvements to prevent recurrences
- Travel and coordinate the day-to-day operations of 5 different offices
- Performed day-to-day administrative tasks to keep the practice running smoothly
- Overseeing billing and collections, design patient services, or implement work policies for employees.
Aviation Technician apprentice
Reliable Jet Maintenance
11.2017 - 03.2018
- Completed Repairs and maintenance work to FAA Standards
- Disassemble, repair, and reassemble aircraft engines
- Examine aircraft components, including landing gear and hydraulic systems, to locate problems such as cracks and leaks
- Meet tight repair deadlines to ensure no service disruption and planes depart on schedule:
Administrative Assistant
AssociatesMD Medical Group
06.2016 - 11.2017
- Served as the departmental control point for the Head of Legal Department, including acting as the first point of contact for incoming callers, interacting with management and staff of Associates MD offices, attorney offices, and others by telephone, written correspondence, and in person
- Performed office management functions by organizing and directing the daily departmental administrative flow, including telephone requests, files management, maintenance, and calendar maintenance
- Contribute ideas and suggestions relevant to collecting and/or analyzing data, preparing and/or reviewing executive or senior management information
- Managed department office staff.
Scheduler
Orthopedic Center of South Florida
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Scheduled patient appointments and transportation services
- Answered 5 line phone calls and routed calls
- Scanned documents into the system
- Prepared charts and entered patient notes into EHR
- Received and sent faxes; sent referrals
- Insurance verification
Office Manager
South Florida Pain & Rehabilitation Center
09.2012 - 07.2014
- Answered phones and routed calls
- Answered questions or concerns from patients
- Prepared charts and entered patient notes into EHR
- Manage staff schedule
Education
AS - Aviation Maintenance Management
Broward College
Skills
- Positive and energetic self-starter who will work both independently and as a team player
- Client communication
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Proficient in MS office
- Legal research
- Case management
- Team player, systematically organized with clerical duties, and very detail-oriented
- Legal writing
- Motivated and goal-oriented attitude and has a passion for aviation
- Over 10 years of experience on Excel, Microsoft Office,Outlook, Word
- Experience on Medical Terminology, Scheduling, Collection and Billing,
- Supervising experience, Managed care, Network management, Corporate finance
- EClinicalWorks and AdvancedMD
- OSHA training
- Positive Attitude
- Emotional Awareness
- Case Management
- Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Budget Control
- Training and Development
- EMR Software
Additional Information
- Willing to relocate: Anywhere, Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Relocation
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Paralegal (Remote)
The Berman Law Firm, Pa - Miami Personal Injury Attorney
07.2024 - Current
Case Manager
The law offices of Anidjar & Levine
03.2023 - Current
Medical Billing & Collections Analytics Manager
AssociateMD
08.2019 - 02.2023
Medical Office Manager
Spine and Orthopedic Specialist of South Florida
05.2018 - 06.2019
Aviation Technician apprentice
Reliable Jet Maintenance
11.2017 - 03.2018
Administrative Assistant
AssociatesMD Medical Group
06.2016 - 11.2017
Scheduler
Orthopedic Center of South Florida
06.2014 - 06.2016
Office Manager
South Florida Pain & Rehabilitation Center
09.2012 - 07.2014
AS - Aviation Maintenance Management
Broward College
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