Responsible for coordinating and maintaining the trauma registry Trauma One database.
Validated trauma registry data entry as entered by trauma registry analyst.
Abstracted and accurately interpreted data concerning trauma inpatient admissions and ED discharges from the EPIC electronic health record into the trauma registry database.
Coordinated all reports generated from the trauma registry database and analyzed the statistical correctness of each report.
Participated in the preparation for Level One Trauma Verification Certification Review by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Trauma Registrar
Himagine Solutions
Palo Alto, California
01.2011 - 01.2018
Responsible for identifying, collecting, coding, injury severity scoring and entering data into Trauma One database using EPIC electronic health record.
Health Information Supervisor/Coding Manager
LSU Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, Louisiana
01.1984 - 01.2000
Responsible for managing, supervising the Coding/Abstracting/Data Entry Section, and supporting Hospital Accounts Receivable and Administrative reporting by ensuring that the most appropriate diagnosis/procedure code is assigned and entered in the hospital's integrated information system to provide optimum reimbursement.
Managed as Director of Health Information Management Department in the absence of Director and Assistant Director.
Medical Terminology Instructor
Southern University
Shreveport, Louisiana
01.2007 - 01.2020
Responsible for teaching the basic study of the language of medicine including words construction, definition, and use of medical terms and an elementary study of the human anatomy, structures, and functions with medical terminology application.
Medical Coding Instructor
Bossier Parish Community College
Bossier City, Louisiana
01.1995 - 01.2007
Responsible for teaching basic ICD-9-CM and CPT/HCPCS coding methodologies that are used for diagnostic and procedural coding for medical billing purposes in health care facilities and physician offices.
Information Coding Instructor
Southern University
Shreveport, Louisiana
01.1988 - 01.2007
Responsible for teaching basic ICD-9-CM and CPT/HCPCS coding methodologies.
Medical Record Abstractor
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, Louisiana
01.1984 - 12.1984
Responsible for interpreting, classifying, and sequencing pertinent medical data to provide optimum financial reimbursement.
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