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SURGERY SCHEDULER
Professional Summary
Surgical Coordinator with management experience,exceptional people skills, and over 15 years in the healthcare field. Versed in health insurance procedures, precertification, and surgical scheduling. Desires a challenging role as a Health Insurance Specialist.
- Experienced professional with a successful career in the healthcare industry with business background.
- Serves as a principle advisor for surgical services and is responsible for monitoring, planning, and foreseeing the service direction through support and consulting with medical and administrative management for continual and improved quality of care.
- Experience in private and public sector health care with operations and billing platforms.
- Provide support to health care management by analyzing, evaluating, and advising on coordinating health care delivery systems and operations.
- Excel at interfacing with others at all levels to ensure organizational goals are attained.
- Proactive approach has resulted in positive case scheduling, payments, and expanding client base.
- Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills. Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques to provide administrative oversight and maintenance of budgets, personnel and services.
- Excel within highly stressful and demanding environments where leadership skills are the keys to success.
- Ensure the surgery services, initiatives, and regulatory requirements are in compliance with all the department and outside institutions.
- An effective coordinator with the skills necessary to direct, train, and motivate staff to their fullest potential.
- Review and analyze medical insurance policies and premiums. Develops and maintains spreadsheets with workflows, records, and business tracking procedures to facilitate reporting, calculating payments, and documenting analysis.
- Specialized experience in the healthcare field utilizing principles, practices, methods, techniques and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of the position.
- Analyze, evaluate, advising on, and coordinate health care systems and operations to access business needs of staff and services.
- Provides health system and business services to support surgery services and patient care support.
- Billing experience in healthcare/ insurance industry. Review and analyze medical insurance policies and premiums.
- Apply analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider, and resolve problems.
- Review and respond to inquiries relating to applicable services or benefits in health care insurance programs and services.
- Develop continuous improvement process and institute corrective actions to resolve negative trends.
- Interfaces with internal and external contacts to resolve COB discrepancies.
- Experience with Medicare and Medicaid insurances pertaining to CMS guidance, state eligibility, and private health plan operations and protocols.
- Knowledge of state based health systems and state level initiatives for health insurance exchange.
- Experience with regulatory compliance.
- Obtains clarification of guidance and monitors regulations from CMS as appropriate.
- Proficient in ICD 9 and CPT billing codes.
Skill Highlights
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Professional Experience
Surgery Scheduler
January 2004 to October 2004Minnesota Eye Consultants － Dallas
January 2004 to October 2004Minnesota Eye Consultants － Dallas
- Schedule procedures for in and outpatient procedures averaging 200 patients a month.
- Scheduling procedures for aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhages, AVM, Chiari malformations, moya-moya disease, spinal cord injuries, and brain tumors etc.
- Coordinate and manage the surgical schedule for 3 neurosurgeons.
- Knowledge of Neurosurgery and Vascular procedures and the implication for patient care pre operativelyand post operatively, operational advantages and the clinical outcomes.
- Knowledge of the imaging equipment as well as the procedures within the interventional radiology suite e.g Angiograms, Coil/ Embolizations, Pipeline procedures, and IAC (Intra arterial chemotherapy injections) procedures for children.
- As well as a complete understanding of minimal invasive interventional procedures.
- Knowledge of radiology studies e.g.
- MRI, MRA, MR-V, CT, and CTA scans.
- Coordinate preadmission testing as well as office appointments with other departments for co surgeons to assist.
- Multitask and meet extremely strict deadlines.
- Time management/ calendar management.
- Answer inquiries from patients, insurance companies, assistance offices, and providers.
- Obtain precertification for surgeries and diagnostic procedures.
- Obtain medical clearances for upcoming surgeries.
- Order office supplies as needed.
- Maintain standard office equipment.
- Schedule patients for surgeries electively and urgently.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Create and manage spreadsheets.
- Prepare and process the surgery reports.
- Prepare and revise the surgery schedule.
- Coordinate and manage seventeen operating rooms with the availability of the anesthesia team, technicians, physicians and their block time.
- Process tissue samples and specimens for the Histology department.
- Data entry for the recovery room log entries.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Proficient in HSM, SMS, PHS scheduling system, and IDX character and web base.
Administrative Assistant
December 2002 to January 2004Road & Rail Services － Roanoke
December 2002 to January 2004Road & Rail Services － Roanoke
- Type 60+ WPM.
- Schedule patients.
- Prepare and process charts to be coded.
- Apply billing charges for the hospital as well as the physician's charges.
- General office work such as filing, faxing, date entry, typing, scheduling appointments, answering a multi-line telephone, and general office work.
- Proficient in Word, Works, Excel, and IDX.
Unit Clerk
December 2000 to December 2002St. Catherine Of Siena － East Hills
December 2000 to December 2002St. Catherine Of Siena － East Hills
- Scheduled patients for procedures.
- Verified patients insurance and obtained pre authorization.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Generated and produced monthly budget reports.
- Ensure compliance with HIPPA/ JACO regulations.
- Data gathering and analysis skills.
Education and Training
Bachelor : Healthcare Administration, September 2017Thomas Jefferson University － City, StateHealthcare Administration
1/2006Community College of Philadelphia － State
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School Attended
- Thomas Jefferson University
- Community College of Philadelphia
Job Titles Held:
- Surgery Scheduler
- Administrative Assistant
- Unit Clerk
Degrees
- Bachelor : Healthcare Administration , September 2017
1/2006
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