Melissa DiBlasio
Summary
Hardworking professional applies official coding conventions and rules established by American Medical Association and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Confident Medical Coder adheres to data confidentiality and privacy rules in all workflows and promotes dynamic interpersonal skills.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner/Certified Licensed Massage Therapist
Anchors Massage Studio
09.2022 - Current
- Manage day-to-day business operations.
- Evaluate suppliers to maintain cost controls and improve operations.
- Enhance operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, and costs.
- Book appointments, answer phones, greet clients and handle payments.
- Assess client needs and identified muscle issues, medical conditions, and contraindications before beginning session. Customize massage treatments tailored to individual needs and preferences.
- Address mobility limitations and generalized pain originating from muscle tightness through stretching, relaxation, deep tissue, reflexology, TMJ relief, hot stones or aroma touch massage therapy techniques.
- Provide safe, effective, and appropriate massage therapy techniques during customer appointments.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date client treatment records and designed long-term care programs for return customers.
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to develop treatment plans, if needed.
- Research and stay up-to-date with new massage techniques, treatments and continued education courses through AMTA.
Medical Coder, Biller and Records Clerk
Medical Center of Newark
07.2005 - 10.2012
- Trained with the Medical Centers Level 111 Coder to learn specifics on how to effectively code patient charts.
- Reviewed patients outpatient medical records to better understand health histories, and identify ICD-9 and CPT codes for billing purposes.
- Resourcefully used various coding books, procedure manuals, and on-line encoders.
- Interacted with physicians and other healthcare staff to ask questions regarding patient services.
- Created and maintained up-to-date patient medical records to enable tracking history and preserve consistent information.
- Monitored changes in coding regulations to provide recommendations for compliance.
- Communicated with insurance companies to research and resolved coding discrepancies.
- Reviewed medical records for completeness and filed records in alphabetic and numeric order.
- Assisted in preparation of medical reports for external parties.
- Scanned and uploaded medical records into electronic medical records system.
- Monitored outstanding invoices and performed collections duties.
- Generated and mailed monthly billing statements to patients.
- Responded to customer concerns and questions on daily basis.
Education
Certified Professional Coder - Medical Coding And Billing
C-TEC of Licking County
222 Price Road, Newark, Ohio 4305506.2024
Licensed Massage Therapist - Massage Therapy
C-TECH of Licking County
222 Price Road, Newark, Ohio 4305506.2022
Skills
- Business, Quality and Operations Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Business Budget Administration
- Business Marketing
- Customer Relations
- Administrative Oversight
- Performance Improvement
- Insurance coding (ICD-10, CPT and HCPCS)
- Medical record security
- Medical Terminology
- Professional/outpatient and Inpatient Medical Coding
Timeline
Owner/Certified Licensed Massage Therapist
Anchors Massage Studio
09.2022 - Current
Medical Coder, Biller and Records Clerk
Medical Center of Newark
07.2005 - 10.2012
Certified Professional Coder - Medical Coding And Billing
C-TEC of Licking County
Licensed Massage Therapist - Massage Therapy
C-TECH of Licking County
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