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Central-Southeast

South Central Region

• Position is field-based, providing services to customers as it relates to coding, coverage and reimbursement. Provide billing and coding education to customers and support the Urology Consultant (UC) in the assigned territory. Follows all necessary policies, procedures, processes and systems in place to support the maximum and most efficient reimbursement for BSC Urology products. • Conducts training and education for new accounts and existing accounts identified by the UC and the hotline. Education consists of insurance benefit completion and process, billing and coding of BSC products and utilizes additional resources available through the Health Economics & Market Access team.• After initial education of the account, regular follow-up with the account is conducted either via phone or in person to ensure proper coding and claims submission of BSC products, identify any reimbursement issues and work with the account to resolve until appropriate payment is received.• Communicate procedures for physician office, ambulatory surgery center, and/or outpatient facility billers to implement process to ensure maximum efficiency and collection of their accounts receivable, including coding procedures and processes for denial and low payment appeals.• Monitors receivables and collections data to provide detailed analysis of accounts receivable to physician billing functions. • Build relationships with provider,staff and provide exceptional customer service.• Works as a liaison with the account, sales and reimbursement hotline to provide information required to complete timely benefit verification's. • Follows HIPAA policies and procedures to ensure protected health information is secure and not accessible to employees not authorized to view the information.• Adheres to the organization’s appeal strategy and manages the on-going tactical application of the appeal strategy to ensure a successful reversal rate in conjunction with the Reimbursement Hotline.

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Presidents Club 2016 Conducts training and education for new accounts and existing accounts identified by the hotline. Education consists of IVR completion and process, billing and coding of MiMedx products, Epifix, and Amniofix skin grafts and injectable and additional resources available through the Reimbursement Hotline.After initial education of account, regular follow up with account to ensure proper payment of MiMedx products, identify any Medicare or Commercial payer reimbursement issues and work with account to resolve until appropriate payment is received.Communicate procedures for physician office, hospital, outpatient facility and ambulatory care center billers to implement to ensure maximum efficiency and collection of their accounts receivable, including coding procedures and processes for denial and low payment appeals.Monitor receivables and collections data as available to provide detailed analysis of accounts receivable to physician billing functions.Investigate all denied or partially paid services with accounts and Reimbursement Hotline and provide follow-up to Account Executives, Regional Sales Director and account as appropriate regarding next steps and support needs.

Il, Mo

Sell Synagis (Monoclonal Antibody against Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and Flumist (Nasal Flu Vaccine) to doctor offices. Primary focus is to influence Pediatricians, Family Practitioners, Home Health Agencies, Distributors, Health Departments, and Pediatric Pulmonology Specialists. My duties also included Level 2 and Level 3 hospitals accounts, assessment of their patients as Synagis and Flumist candidates and coordinating its administration. Coordinate office tracking of pediatric patients. Facilitate referral processing, manage patient insurance denials and copay issues.Territory: Columbia, MO

I called on Pediatricians and Family Practice Doctors. The products I sold were Omnicef, Biaxin, Synthroid, and Tricor.

All Star Award 2004.I called on Cardiologists and sold Mavik and Tarka products.

My experience was in teaching third grade.

Master Of Science, Early Childhood Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Science, Speech Pathology