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Michelle Newman

Summary

Seasoned Clinic Manager with a robust background in dental office operations, notably with Smile Art By Dr Jaime Lee. Expert in revenue management and healthcare administration, demonstrating a keen ability to enhance office efficiency and patient satisfaction. Skilled in bookkeeping oversight and fostering professional dentist and staff relations, ensuring a seamless patient experience and office productivity.

Work History

Clinic Manager, Treatment Coordinator, Financial Coordinator, Lead Dental Assistant

Smile Art By Dr Jaime Lee
  • Effectively managing the day-to-day operations in the dental office
  • Managing the office budget, accounts receivable
  • Recruiting, hiring and developing office teams
  • Proactively seeking ways to improve the dental office
  • Negotiating Fees with Insurance companies and patients
  • Processing insurance claims
  • Maximizing practice revenue
  • Managing and ordering supplies
  • Maintaining adequate staffing levels to cover busy periods
  • Ordering all office and clinical supplies
  • Ensuring that the cash drawer is reconciled daily
  • Maintaining a clean and tidy waiting and reception area
  • Greeting and welcoming guests
  • Scheduling follow up and recall appointments
  • Ensuring that all necessary paperwork in completed
  • Created, presented and set up treatment plans and financial contracts
  • Provided coverage for all positions in the office when needed
  • Maintain all financial data for accuracy
  • Dr's 'right hand man'

Clinical Manager / Lead Assistant

Advanced Orthodontics
Burien, WA
  • Greet and prepare patients for treatment
  • Established a trusting rapport with patients, thus, ensuring positive dental experience
  • Assist Dr
  • During in ALL aspects of the clinic including new and active patient examinations and treatment procedures
  • Maintained clean, organized, sterile environment
  • Submit all documents, patient cases in timely matter
  • Conduct work in compliance with office policies and procedures, safety, OSHA and MSDS guidelines
  • Documented dental care service and maintained in patient charts/records
  • Encourage development in dialogue, guiding organizations to transcend dysfunctional dynamics
  • Actively participate in the achievement of patient satisfaction and office production goals by working efficiently and providing a high level of patient service
  • Achieve professional dentist and staff relations through teamwork to ensure coordination of activities
  • Scheduling patients, and work recalls
  • Assisted manager with building employee schedules
  • Actively participated in staff meetings to aid in needs for better practice
  • Assist in recruiting, hiring and developing office teams
  • Confirmed patient information and verified insurance
  • Posted charges, payments and adjustments
  • Thoroughly reviewed remittance codes from EOBS
  • Contacting patients prior to office visit to collect past due balances
  • Check each insurance payment for accuracy and compliance with contract discount

Office Manager

Kirkland and Redmond Orthodontics
Redmond, WA
  • Effectively managing the day-to-day operations in the dental office
  • Managing the office budget
  • Recruiting, hiring and developing office teams
  • Proactively seeking ways to improve the dental office
  • Negotiating Fees with Insurance companies and patients
  • Processing insurance claims
  • Maximizing practice revenue
  • Managing and ordering supplies
  • Maintaining adequate staffing levels to cover busy periods
  • Ordering all office and clinical supplies
  • Ensuring that the cash drawer is reconciled daily
  • Maintaining a clean and tidy waiting and reception area
  • Greeting and welcoming guests
  • Scheduling follow up and recall appointments
  • Ensuring that all necessary paperwork in completed
  • Created, presented and set up treatment plans and financial contracts
  • Provided coverage for all positions in the office when needed
  • Maintain all financial data for accuracy
  • Dr's 'right hand man'

Orthodontic Assistant

Leone and Vaughn Orthodontics
Seattle, WA
  • Greet and prepare patients for treatment
  • Established a trusting rapport with patients, thus, ensuring positive dental experience
  • Assist Dr
  • During in ALL aspects of the clinic including new and active patient examinations and treatment procedures
  • Cleaned and sanitized instruments, making dental impressions along with taking orthodontic records
  • Conduct work in compliance with office policies and procedures, safety, OSHA and MSDS guidelines
  • Documented dental care service and maintained in patient charts/records
  • Encourage development in dialogue, guiding organizations to transcend dysfunctional dynamics
  • Actively participate in the achievement of patient satisfaction and office production goals by working efficiently and providing a high level of patient service
  • Achieve professional dentist and staff relations through teamwork to ensure coordination of activities
  • Scheduling patients, and work recalls
  • Assisted manager with building employee schedules
  • Actively participated in staff meetings to aid in needs for better practices
  • Assist in recruiting, hiring and developing office teams

Orthodontic Assistant / Treatment Coordinator

Rudey Orthodontics
Renton, WA
  • Greet and prepare patients for treatment
  • Established a trusting rapport with patients, thus, ensuring positive dental experience
  • Assist Dr
  • During in ALL aspects of the clinic including new and active patient examinations and treatment procedures
  • Cleaned and sanitized instruments, making dental impressions along with taking orthodontic records
  • Record medical and dental histories
  • Record treatment information in patient records
  • Demonstrated knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations by appropriately handling patient information
  • Actively participate in the achievement of patient satisfaction and office production goals by working efficiently and providing a high level of customer service
  • Achieve professional dentist and staff relations through teamwork to ensure coordination of activities
  • Scheduling patients, and work recalls
  • Maintain confidentiality in medical record keeping
  • Create and review treatment/financial plans
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Verify insurance
  • Confirmed patient information and verified insurance
  • Posted charges, payments and adjustments
  • Thoroughly reviewed remittance codes from EOBS
  • Contacting patients prior to office visit to collect past due balances
  • Check each insurance payment for accuracy and compliance with contract discount
  • Answer all patients or insurance telephone inquiries pertaining to assigned account
  • Confirmed patient information and verified insurance
  • Post charges, payments and adjustment
  • Take initiative to ensure claims are billed out correctly and denials are resolved immediately

Scheduling/Financial Coordinator

Pine Lake Family Dentistry
Sammamish, WA
  • Responsible for all billing to insurance companies and statements to patients
  • Worked with all major medical insurance companies
  • Ensure extraordinary customer satisfaction
  • Handle refund requests to the insurance companies to verify refunds are correct
  • Maintain confidentiality in dental record keeping
  • Demonstrated knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations by appropriately handling patient information
  • Contacting patients prior to office visit to collect past due balances
  • Thoroughly reviewed remittance codes from EOBS
  • Ran claims to send to insurance companies
  • Checking patients in and out
  • Maintain and execute practice schedule productively and efficiently
  • Scan documents, maintain up to date patient charts
  • Answer and reply to practice emails
  • Collect/post payments
  • Discuss denials and possible solutions for denial prevention with department managers
  • Review and release dental claims with correct billing correspondence
  • Review patient bills for accuracy, completeness
  • Post charges, payments and adjustments
  • Follow up on unpaid claims within standard billing cycle
  • Check each insurance payment for accuracy and compliance with contract discount
  • Call insurance companies regarding any discrepancy in payments
  • Answer all patients or insurance telephone inquiries pertaining to assigned account
  • Take initiative to ensure claims are billed out correctly and denials are resolved immediately
  • Ensure all workflows are being utilized to reduce denials and unnecessary follow ups
  • Identify and inform fellow employees of current denial issues with payers
  • Monitored all delinquent accounts and managed collection activities

Skills

  • Scheduling appointments
  • Bookkeeping oversight
  • Revenue management
  • Occupational medicine
  • Back office
  • Healthcare administration

Timeline

Clinic Manager, Treatment Coordinator, Financial Coordinator, Lead Dental Assistant

Smile Art By Dr Jaime Lee

Clinical Manager / Lead Assistant

Advanced Orthodontics

Office Manager

Kirkland and Redmond Orthodontics

Orthodontic Assistant

Leone and Vaughn Orthodontics

Orthodontic Assistant / Treatment Coordinator

Rudey Orthodontics

Scheduling/Financial Coordinator

Pine Lake Family Dentistry
Michelle Newman