TABATHA SCARBOROUGH
Sherwood,USA
Summary
Proactive and versatile professional with a dedication to quickly adapting to new challenges. Strong problem-solving abilities and a proven track record of fostering strong relationships with clients and team members. Focused on supporting team success and achieving positive results.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Health Information Specialist
AR Children’s Hospital
01.2025 - Current
- Accurately identify, abstract, and code medical and demographic information for ARHMS;
- Travel to assigned health care facilities;
- Prepare all documentation required prior to and following visits at facilities;
- Follow all procedures for confirming and finalizing information collected for ARHMS.
- Attends and participates in required meetings for ARHMS personnel regarding surveillance and/or research projects.
- Serves as a liaison to departments within and outside the hospital to consult, advise and provide general support to the Director.
- Assist in research study activities and perform other duties as assigned.
Application Analyst
Baptist Health/Information Systems
05.2022 - 10.2024
- Performs requested analysis of Information Systems Request.
- Works effectively with end users to define system requirements and develop into simple design specifications.
- Determines the most effective placement in the task priority queue.
- Works effectively with customers to verify that system changes meet customer requirements, communicating with customers in a timely manner regarding delays or changes in the project.
- Provides on-call support, responding within times set by departmental guidelines.
- Progressively solves non-complex problems independently.
- Monitors application issues, error queues, and messages, identifying significant problem areas that require follow-up.
- Follow escalation procedures to seek complex problem resolution in a timely manner.
- Documents tailoring decisions system modifications, operational and user procedures.
- Completes assignments in a timely manner, keeping manager informed of progress and issues/concerns.
Health Information Specialist
UAMS/College of Public Health
04.2021 - 05.2022
- Accurately identify, abstract, and code medical and demographic information for ARHMS;
- Travel to assigned health care facilities;
- Prepare all documentation required prior to and following visits at facilities;
- Follow all procedures for confirming and finalizing information collected for ARHMS.
- Attends and participates in required meetings for ARHMS personnel regarding surveillance and/or research projects.
- Serves as a liaison to departments within and outside the hospital to consult, advise and provide general support to the Director.
- Assist in research study activities and perform other duties as assigned.
Certified Procedural Coding Specialist
UAMS/VCF CORE Coding Department
11.2020 - 04.2021
- Assessed the adequacy of the health record documentation to ensure it supported all diagnoses and procedures to which codes are assigned.
- Applied knowledge of anatomy and physiology, clinical disease processes, pharmacology, and diagnostic and procedural terminology to assign accurate codes to diagnoses and procedures;
- Maintained understanding of ICD-10 and CPT coding classification systems.
- Review and perform data charge entry to both hospital and physician patient accounting systems for the outpatient clinic visits;
- Organize work to ensure all assigned work queues are reviewed and appropriately prioritized on a daily basis;
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Billing Coordinator *Part-time
Conway Regional/PCSN Billing Department
07.2020 - 03.2021
- Responsible for posting all charges and payments into the computer;
- Balancing clinics’ accounts with the bank and accounting;
- Maintain accounts receivables;
- Billing insurances and claim follow-up.
Health Information Specialist
AR Children’s Hospital
08.2018 - 11.2020
- Accurately identified, abstracted, and coded medical and demographic information for ARHMS;
- Communicated with and traveled to assigned health care facilities;
- Prepared all documentation required prior to and following visits at facilities;
- Followed all procedures for confirming and finalizing information collected for ARHMS.
- Attended and participated in required meetings for ARHMS personnel regarding surveillance and/or research projects.
- Served as a liaison to departments within and outside the hospital to consult, advised and provided general support to the Director.
- Assisted in research study activities and performed other duties as assigned.
Health Information Specialist
UAMS/Pediatric Research
04.2016 - 07.2018
- Accurately identified, abstracted, and coded medical and demographic information for ARHMS;
- Traveled to assigned health care facilities;
- Prepared all documentation required prior to and following visits at facilities;
- Followed all procedures for confirming and finalizing information collected for ARHMS.
- Attended and participated in required meetings for ARHMS personnel regarding surveillance and/or research projects.
- Served as a liaison to departments within and outside the hospital to consult, advised and provide general support to the Director.
- Assisted in research study activities and performed other duties as assigned.
Billing Analyst
UAMS/Pediatric Cardiology
09.2010 - 04.2016
- Reviewed professional fee charges to ensure accurate CPT/ICD-10 codes.
- Checked charges against census to ensure all charges were captured.
- Generated Meditech report for inpatient echocardiograms, coded diagnosis and keyed charges into Epic.
- Completed billing for regional clinic echos, keyed charges for telemedicine fetal reports.
Sr. Cash Application Specialist/Auditor
AR Oncology Associates
03.2004 - 09.2010
- Posted line-item payments and adjustments to patient accounts.
- Sorted lock box receipts and posted accordingly to patient accounts.
- Maintained all checks and EOBs together by deposit date to ensure batch integrity.
- Scanned explanation of benefits for incorrect and inconsistencies in reimbursements.
- Performed quarterly chart audits at satellite clinics around the state.
Education
Associate of Science - Health Information Management
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
12.2013
Skills
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- EPIC
- Meditech
- ICD-10/CPT coding
- Data abstraction
- Health record management
- Medical coding
- Electronic health records
- Clinical documentation
- Data analysis
- Customer service
- Project management
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
- Time management
- Attention to detail
- Interdepartmental communication
- Research support
- Healthcare data mapping
- Healthcare analytics
- Healthcare data security
- Medical record auditing
- Healthcare informatics
- HIPAA compliance
- Healthcare reporting
- Medical terminology proficiency
- Healthcare data integration
- Health information exchange
- EHR software navigation
- Healthcare data analysis
- Healthcare IT systems
- Health information technology
- Clinical documentation improvement
- ICD-10-cM coding
- HIPAA compliance and regulations
- Health records review
- Effective communication
Affiliations
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- Arkansas Health Information Management Association (ARHIMA)
- National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN)
Licenses Certificates
- Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT)
- EPIC HIM Deficiency Tracking
- EPIC HIM Hospital Coding
- EPIC HIM Release of Information
Timeline
Health Information Specialist
AR Children’s Hospital
01.2025 - Current
Application Analyst
Baptist Health/Information Systems
05.2022 - 10.2024
Health Information Specialist
UAMS/College of Public Health
04.2021 - 05.2022
Certified Procedural Coding Specialist
UAMS/VCF CORE Coding Department
11.2020 - 04.2021
Billing Coordinator *Part-time
Conway Regional/PCSN Billing Department
07.2020 - 03.2021
Health Information Specialist
AR Children’s Hospital
08.2018 - 11.2020
Health Information Specialist
UAMS/Pediatric Research
04.2016 - 07.2018
Billing Analyst
UAMS/Pediatric Cardiology
09.2010 - 04.2016
Sr. Cash Application Specialist/Auditor
AR Oncology Associates
03.2004 - 09.2010
Associate of Science - Health Information Management
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences