Bernadette Weeks Email & Phone Number

Scarsdale, Ny, Us

Yonkers, Ny

Financial EDI Solutions/ Hospital Revenue Cycles team. • Conduct interviews with business and tech teams to gather business requirements• Document existing systems and create BRD's and functional specs for new development• Detail highly complex workflows incorporating Visio diagrams• Write SQL queries designed to assist users in identifying and prioritizing their needs, to spot trends, identify potential opportunities, and circumvent potential problems,• Formulate testing strategies designed to ‘break the system’• Write SQL queries for the entire BA team for data mining purposes and to efficiently identify appropriate test cases for user acceptance testing and produce various reports• Run quality assurance/integration tests, analyze results, and identify issues for developers• Post implementation monitoring• Research production issues and perform root cause analysis for developers and users• Instrumental in implementing HL7-based interface between TREKS and EPIC• Research new workflows using HIPAA Implementation Guides, insurance payers’ companion guides, etc.• Reduce receivables by defining new eligibility rules based upon 270/271 request/response testing• Prepare PowerPoint presentations• Share knowledge and techniques with team and provide training to other BA’s

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for all aspects of SDLC on numerous projects to enhance and expand custom-built, comprehensive foster care application. Application comprises electronic medical records, compliance, and accounting functions with interfaces to outside entities. Responsibilities include strategizing with top executives, project planning and scoping, requirements definition, solution design, development, QA, user training and technical support.• Developed electronic health records incorporating ICD9 diagnosis and CPT procedure codes• Developed and implemented system utilized for tracking compliance with government regulations• Wrote requirements definition documents, including use cases, business rules, and flowcharts• Developed HIPAA-compliant Medicaid billing system (ANSI ASC X12 837 and 835)• Facilitated cross-departmental, integrated use of data to reduce duplication of efforts and data redundancy while improving data integrity• Performed complex data analysis to map NYS data source to Agency database• Worked with multiple outside parties, including vendors, banks, and regulatory agencies, to define and implement data exchanges• Mapped and migrated all data for merger of two agencies• Installed and maintained vendor software

Greater New York City Area

Developed systems to ensure compliance with various government entities. Created custom reports for Medical and Fiscal departments for quality assurance purposes.• Interviewed management to define requirements• Authored requirements definition documents, including use cases and business rules• Responsible for development and maintenance of ACS Compliance, Foster Parent Payroll, and New York City and Medicaid billing reports• Worked with outside parties to define and implement data exchanges• Designed and developed databases, user interfaces, and reports• Installed and maintained vendor software

Greater New York City Area

Held a series of positions of increasing responsibility culminating with Director of MIS. Responsible for development and maintenance of General Ledger, Cash Disbursements, Foster Parent Payment, Accounts Receivable, New York City and Medicaid billing systems, and Foster Care compliance systems. Supervised five employees.• Interviewed management and end users to define requirements• Audited agency records to develop improved workflows• Designed and developed databases, user interfaces, and reports• Consolidated Fiscal and MIS software systems into single comprehensive system• Implemented system integration strategies to reduce duplicate efforts and data redundancy• Worked with multiple outside parties to define and implement data exchanges• Created and implemented Medicaid billing system which resulted in the lowest outstanding Medicaid receivables of any foster care agency in NYC• Served as agency representative for JAD for the development of NYS Connections System