Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Reimbursement Case Advocate
Smith & Nephew, Inc
, MD
01.2023 - Current
Applied HIPAA privacy and security regulations while handling patient information.
Applied knowledge of payer requirements and utilized on-line eligibility systems to verify patient coverage and policy limitations.
Called insurance companies and verified patient coverage.
Performs a detailed insurance benefit verification for all products including obtaining patient responsibility, researching payer coverage criteria, and any required prior authorization requirements
Maintain clear documentation of all tasks, review reports for accuracy and completeness, prepare and send insurance benefit verification results to healthcare providers, and protect PHI, all within the departments directed time allotment.
Reports any payer delays/ reporting challenges and escalates complaints accordingly to Team Lead and/or Supervisor as necessary.
Collaborates with Market Access and Field Reimbursement teams to further investigate reporting issues or change in payer coverage criteria
Clinical Resource Consultant Data Entry Specialist
CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting
, United States
04.2021 - 04.2022
Enter or verify CRF's into the clinical database
Perform CRF inventory
Assist the Clinical Data Manager
Work with site and CTI staff to resolve queries in the clinical database
Efficiently and accurately enter data into clinical database systems
File and archive study documentation
Patient Access Specialist
AstraZeneca
Gaithersburg, United States
09.2018 - 08.2020
Perform intake of cases and capture information in Access360 Case Management system.Manage day to day activities of health
care provider support requests and deliverables across multiple communication channels i.e Phone, fax Chat, email, etc
Communicate effectively with Payers, third party administrators and other departments .Perform in-depth research into patient's
insurance, prior authorization and appeal requests on behalf of provider .Educate offices on Access 360 programs and referral
process to ensure timely case processing
Team Leader
Children's National Medical Center
Laurel, United States
01.2016 - 08.2018
Supervises a staff of customer service representatives and ensures customers are satisfied
Responsible for training customer
service representatives, and for developing and implementing operations and policies
Verify Insurance eligibility
Exceed goal of obtaining authorizations five days in advance of services
Collect and record payments helping department meet 85% collection target
Reconcile charges
Reconcile daily cash receipts/ collections
Educate staff on OSHA procedures
Monitor and correct registration errors
Monitor QA reports
Train and mentor peers
Monitor staff performance
Implement performance improvement action plan
Assume leadership role in absence of manager.
Gastroenterology Call, Children's National Medical Center
, United States
12.2011 - 01.2016
Review and Correct Physician schedules
Orient staff to clinic guidelines
Monitor Staff calls
Maintain accurate clinic operations manuals and training materials
Educate staff and escalate compliance concerns to
management
Assist staff with escalated customer concerns
Act as a liaison between Management, staff, physicians, and clinicians and families
Train New hires
Supervise call queue and direct staff according to the needs of the queue Act as team leader in the absence of the manager
Assist with miscellaneous tasks as needed
Call Center Representative
Children's National Medical Center
Silver Spring, United States
02.2010 - 12.2011
Register and schedule patients by telephone utilizing the physician scheduler Sci system, and individual departmental
procedures for the specialty clinics of Children's National Medical Center
Verify financial and insurance information and provide
basic insurance plan education to customers
Answer a minimum of 40 calls per day within less than 30 seconds Meet call quality standard of 90% or greater
Register appointment with 100% accuracy Maintain a productivity rate of 85% or higher
Education
Bachelor's in BS - Healthcare Administration Management
University of Maryland-University College
01.2022
Montgomery Blair High School
06.1995
Skills
Customer Service Oriented
Patient Confidentiality and Data Security
Registration and Scheduling
Organized and Detail-Oriented
Database Search and Data Entry Skills
Calm and Effective Under Pressure
Case Management Experience
Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Powerpoint Microsoft Word MS Word
Certification
Systems Management Data Integrity Database Database Systems Microsoft Access CTI
Conditional Random Field CRF Coding Drivers Queue Management Queue EPIC IDX Cerner
Mckesson Data Collection Electronic Health Records EHR Spring Salesforce EMR CSS LESS
Healthcare Healthcare Management Medical Billing Case Management Office Medical
Medical Terminology CPT Gastroenterology Clinical Trials GCP Clinical Research Clinical Trial
ICD-9 CPT-4
Languages
English - Fluent Spanish - Intermediate
Timeline
Reimbursement Case Advocate - Smith & Nephew, Inc
01.2023 - Current
Clinical Resource Consultant Data Entry Specialist - CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting
04.2021 - 04.2022
Patient Access Specialist - AstraZeneca
09.2018 - 08.2020
Team Leader - Children's National Medical Center
01.2016 - 08.2018
- Gastroenterology Call, Children's National Medical Center
12.2011 - 01.2016
Call Center Representative - Children's National Medical Center
02.2010 - 12.2011
University of Maryland-University College - Bachelor's in BS, Healthcare Administration Management