Versatile Hospitalist offering over 15 years of comprehensive experience managing patient treatment, providing health education and coordinating medical care from admission to discharge. Ethical and driven professional certified in Internal Medicine and Healthcare Management. Accustomed to handling medical care for multiple patients and working in diverse, multicultural environments.
Experienced physician reviewer of medical records for clinical utilization management, clinical services/post-acute care placement pre-authorization and verification of appropriateness of medical care in acute care settings.
Hospitalist Duties including admitting, rounding on and discharging assigned patients.
Hospitalist duties as needed, including in person duties and remote ER admissions call back and triaging, telephone cross-coverages and video rounding on long stay hospital patients.
Remote independent medical review for Utilization Management, pre-authorization of medical services and devices as well as Peer Review using mainly MCG and InterQual References and Guidance.
Occasional/PRN General Hospitalist duties (admitting, rounding on and discharging patients for contracted PCPs) as an independent contractor with CHOP (Community Hospitalists of Pinellas)
Casual hospitalist services as needed including remote tele-hospitalist duties for ER admissions call back and triaging, telephone cross-coverages and video hospital rounding on long stay hospital patients.
Remote detailed and extensive clinical record review for Utilization Management, pre-authorization of medical services and devices as well as Peer Review using mainly MCG and InterQual References and Guidance.
Inpatient general medical management of patients admitted from the ER, transferred from another facility or directly admitted to the hospital. Medical consultations for other specialties in the hospital.
Inpatient general medical management of patients admitted from the ER during the night shift. Medical consultations for other specialties in the hospital. Overnight cross coverage of medical patients in the hospital.
Various locum and independent hospitalist/nocturnist positions: Cogent Healthcare at Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers, FL; Premier Hospital Group, Tampa, FL; Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, FW Beach, FL; Cogent Healthcare at St Joseph's Hospital, Tampa, FL; HMG at Laurel Regional Hospital, Laurel, MD; and VA Medical Center, Lake City/Gainesville, FL.
Inpatient general medical management of patients admitted from the ER, transferred from another facility or directly admitted to the hospital. Medical consultations for other specialties in the hospital.
Inpatient general medical management of patients admitted from the ER, transferred from another facility or directly admitted to the hospital. Medical consultations for other specialties in the hospital.
Inpatient general medical management of patients admitted from the ER, transferred from another facility or directly admitted to the hospital. Medical consultations for other specialties in the hospital.
Outpatient and Inpatient medical management of adult patients with acute and chronic health problems.
Involved the review, collation and report of clinical drug trials for pharmaceutical companies.
This involved abstracting and coding clinical data from medical records of patients used for monitoring the quality of healthcare delivery in US hospitals receiving Medicare/Medicaid benefits and compensation in order to measure their compliance with major clinical Core Measures for diseases such as pneumonia, CHF and myocardial infarction.
General medical duties at a remote hospital to fulfill Nigeria's compulsory post-university NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) program.
This was a post graduate transitional year pre-registration training in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pediatrics.
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