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Marylin West

Marylin West

Yucca Valley,United States

Summary

Enhanced Compliance Standards at Conifer Healthcare Solutions, developed and implemented audit protocols with a methodical approach, ensuring 100% adherence to compliance standards.

Improved Patient Care Coordination at Kaiser Permanente, collaborated with clinical teams using strategic focus to enhance patient care coordination, leading to a 10% improvement in patient outcomes.

Streamlined Business Processes at Apria Healthcare, managed cross-functional teams with meticulous attention to detail, resulting in a 15% improvement in operational efficiently. Developed skills in fast-paced business environment, including data analysis, stakeholder communication, and strategic planning. Seeking to transition into new role where these skills can be applied and further developed. Committed to leveraging analytical expertise and problem-solving abilities to contribute to organizational success.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

BUSINESS ANALYST

Kaiser Permanente
San Diego, CA
06.2023 - Current
  • Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
  • Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
  • Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
  • Optimized team coordination to ensure streamlined project workflows.
  • Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
  • Enhanced data accuracy by implementing rigorous data validation techniques, leading to more reliable business insights.
  • Increased project visibility by creating comprehensive dashboard for real-time status updates, improving stakeholder communication.
  • Strengthened regulatory compliance by updating internal processes in line with new industry standards and legislation.

OPERATIONS ANALYST

Conifer Healthcare Solutions
Dallas, TX
04.2022 - 06.2023
  • Responsible for handling grievances through investigation, preparation, effectuation, and presentation of appropriate materials for review
  • Audits of internal and external reports, to validate supplemental benefits, adherence to service level agreements, and compliance with regulatory policies
  • Partner with internal and external departments, Medical Group, and staff to achieve resolution for member concerns
  • Data cleansing, Project tracking, Mapping, HL7, Data visualization, Power Bi, HIE, and ad-hoc reports
  • Manages database for cases
  • Responsible for timely case resolution and compliance with federal and state regulations, laws, and accreditation standards
  • Participate in managing the organizations Grievance, and external review process
  • Compose high quality, compliant, grammatically correct, detailed written communication
  • Utilized data management skills to ensure accurate tracking of obligations
  • Conduct regular audits of internal and external reports
  • Maintain dashboards to provide oversight, monitor performance, budgets, and service agreements
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory standards
  • Promoted continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, and training to various teams
  • Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to define requirements for new projects
  • Implemented SAP related analyzed business processes
  • Review, and track administration with internal stakeholders
  • Conduct, plan, and approve audits for all vendors (State and Federal), corporate contracts/management
  • Approved all new/amended current vendor contracts, managing meetings, data reporting
  • Creates, monitor, and evaluate, all audit reports (annually, quarterly, and monthly)
  • Involved in product development and pre-launch phase
  • Supervised, and trained staff on new procedures, organization skills, and job aid creation
  • Development of corporate policies, procedures, and training materials
  • Billing, auditing, and reconciliation (state and federal and business reporting)
  • Maintained critical information sensitive using Management Information Data Protection

REVENUE CYCLE BUSINESS ANALYST

Apria Healthcare
Forest Lake, CA
08.2013 - 04.2022
  • Account ledgers, account reconciliations, analyzing budgets, and forecasting data, project management
  • Business process modeling and data access modeling, data analysis, spearheaded, and querying Access
  • Managed and allocated resources for enterprise requirements in a timely manner
  • Monitor monthly accounts, (payables, receivables, and loans)
  • UI and UX Wireframes, figma interactive to create prototype and mockups.
  • Developed a forecasting model that accurately predicted future demand, resulting in an increase in profits of 13%
  • Dashboard development, SAS, SQL, project tracking
  • Deployed Excel VLOOKUP, FHIR, Pivotable, Tableau, Word, Outlook PowerPoint, SAP, Python, MS Office Suite, ArcGIS, Health Information Exchange (HIE),and Access
  • Functionalities to research data issues and cleaned, reformatted, documented user's satisfaction survey data
  • Developed data gathering applications
  • Appeals and grievance, respond to issues timely and proficiently
  • Verifies patient insurance eligibility and benefits and ensures this information is accurately reflected in system
  • Patient's account obtaining authorizations from insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial, Kaiser Permanente) when required
  • Data management to ensure data protection and quality, analyze, researched, and identify defects for enhancements
  • Analyzed customer data to determine trends in purchasing behavior
  • Drafted functional specifications documents outlining project scope, objectives and deliverables
  • Developed financial models and forecasts to support business decisions
  • Performed cost-benefit analysis of proposed changes to business processes
  • Identified gaps between current state and desired future state operations
  • Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality
  • Improved application performance through extensive monitoring and diagnostics using Azure Monitor tools.

Provided ongoing support for troubleshooting complex issues related to the deployment and maintenance of Azure resources.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration

University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
01.2006

Skills

  • Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Visual Studio, AWS/Azure, Services
  • Pivot Tables/Data Analysis
  • Tableau, Adobe,SAS, SQL, SAP, FHIR, HTML and CSS
  • Research Methodologies
  • Contract Management
  • Data Reporting
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Project Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Data Cleansing/ Visualization
  • Business Process Improvement
  • KPI tracking
  • Risk assessment
  • Operations analysis
  • Agile methodologies
  • Data visualization

Accomplishments

  • Staff Training - Trained staff on basic FAS 109 concepts and computation construction.

Summary

At Conifer Healthcare Solutions, developed and implemented audit protocols with a methodical approach, ensuring 100% adherence to compliance standards., At Kaiser Permanente, collaborated with clinical teams using strategic focus to enhance patient care coordination, leading to a 10% improvement in patient outcomes., At Apria Healthcare, managed cross-functional teams with meticulous attention to detail, resulting in a 15% improvement in operational efficiency.

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified, Data Analyst Associate - Microsoft.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)® - Project Management Institute, Inc.
  • Six Sigma Green Belt Certification – American Society for Quality (ASQ).
  • Power BI Data Analyst Associate Certification – Microsoft.
  • OSHA Certified
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

BUSINESS ANALYST

Kaiser Permanente
06.2023 - Current

OPERATIONS ANALYST

Conifer Healthcare Solutions
04.2022 - 06.2023

REVENUE CYCLE BUSINESS ANALYST

Apria Healthcare
08.2013 - 04.2022

Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration

University of Kansas
Marylin West