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Responsible for supporting the day-to-day process and functions of Hologic's insurance support and reimbursement policy programs, implementation, auditing, and optimization. Educate and support each business units' commercial teams. Partner with multiple cross-functional teams to ensure accurate claims by translating medical policies, reimbursement.

Austin, Texas Area

• Develops, organizes and implements overall billing, collection and payment reimbursement functions for the Dell Medical School Clinical Health Enterprise.
• Plans, directs, reviews, coordinates and evaluates through the functions of the department to increase positive cash flow, achieve operational efficiencies, and ensure compliance with established laws, regulations.
• Manages insurance eligibility processes, charge posting, claim submission… Show more Develops, organizes and implements overall billing, collection and payment reimbursement functions for the Dell Medical School.
• Manages insurance eligibility processes, charge posting, claim submission, recoveries/collections, cash posting and adjustments. Handles contractual allowances, accounts receivable management, denial management.
• Oversees integrity of patient accounts, concurrent and retrospective auditing, proper coding, credentialing, customer services relative to revenue cycle and the training and development of staff.
• Responsible for analytics and all other revenue cycle management activities of services within the Dell Medical School Clinical Health Enterprise.

Austin, Texas Area

Revenue Cycle Management Consultant in Accenture's Health and Public Service division. Assisting various healthcare entities with improving end-to-end revenue cycle functions and improving key performance indicators.

Austin, TX

• Worked as a consultant with various health care entities focusing on process and revenue cycle improvements, project management, and payer credentialing.
• Evaluate and recommend process improvements for various Medical Staff Offices to improve credentialing and contracting processes to which in turn improve revenue cycle processes.
• Successfully managed transition of a health plan’s claims third party administrator (TPA) through the entire process of evaluating old TPA, terming… Show more Worked as a consultant with various health care entities.
• Successfully managed transition of a health plan’s claims third party administrator (TPA) through the entire process of evaluating old TPA, terming old TPA, RFP process and search for a new TPA, and implementation and.

Georgetown, Texas

• Responsible for oversight and management of all credentialing and billing functions for multi-clinic system with 140 providers. Managing department consisting of 4 managers and 30 staff providing necessary oversight.
• Managed billing department that collected on average $4 Million a month and billed on average 20-25,000 encounters a month.
• Served as expert over payers and responsible for the enhancement of the revenue cycle processes.
• Managed all health plan payer contracts and served as the primary contact for the organization with all contracted health plans.
• Successfully contracted and renegotiated all commercial health plan contracts to maximize revenue.
• Contracted with all Medicaid Managed Care plans for Medicaid expansion and implemented and trained staff internally for Medicaid expansion go-live.

Ba, Biology

Mha, Health Administration