Lashonda Barton, Mba, Ccs, Cpc, Cppm, Cva Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

United States

• Assisting with appointment management, travel booking, gatekeeping personal time and priorities, and structuring work schedules.
• Agenda preparation for meetings, providing briefings on the context for each meeting scheduled, ensuring the executive team has a comprehensive understanding of the meeting's purpose and participants.
• Review reports and agendas, linking helpful data or references to support decision-making processes.

United States

• Motivate Lab, LLC 2022-Present
• Calendar management: making & and confirming appointments, blocking time for personal plans, establishing work schedule, and identifying and blocking transit time.
• Email management Sorting and prioritizing email communication. Responding professionally and appropriately to inquiries. Providing a daily review of information and communicating urgent needs.
• Tailored Travel Planning: Flight and hotel booking for the entire team, aligned with the client's needs and preferences.

United States

• Clients: JBJ Content that Counts 2021-Present
• Bookkeeping: Accounts Receivable Simple & effective A/R, maintain customer records, data entry (customer information), purchase details, payment information, invoicing & tracking, overdue & recurring invoices via.
• Making and confirming appointments, blocking time for personal plans and travel time, and establishing work schedule block. Change to: Assisting with appointment management, travel booking, gate keeping personal time.
• Email management: Sorting and prioritizing email communication. Responding professionally and appropriately to inquiries. Providing a daily review of information and communicating urgent needs.
• Social media assistance-: managing general online presence and engagement via LinkedIn and Contently

United States

Bookkeeping management: Bringing bookkeeping expertise to support your business through; accurate data entry, monthly reconciliation, expense tracking, income recording, and financial reporting. Email Management: Elevate your productivity with top-notch Email Management solutions. We handle your inbox, streamline communication, and ensure no important.

United States

• Second II None Dance & Fitness 2021-Present
• Calendar management: Making & and confirming appointments, blocking time for personal plans, establishing work schedule, and identifying and blocking transit time.
• Email management: Sorting and prioritizing email communication. Responding professionally and appropriately to inquiries. Providing a daily review of information and communicating urgent needs.
• Client & Employee Management: Client onboarding including discovery calls, information disbursement, follow-up documentation, contract creation and completion, invoice distribution, and payment collection.
• Basic Bookkeeping: including A/R, maintaining customer records, purchase details, payment information, invoicing & and tracking, overdue & and recurring invoices. Accounts Payable, maintain vendor records, vendor.

United States

Provided analysis, updates, recommendations, and optimizing workflows within Epic. Claim edit review & solutions, Collaborated with IT, Epic, & Revenue department heads and team members to assess, redesign, and continually improve education, compliance, and workflows.

United States, Remote

Conduct outpatient E.D ICD 10 CM coding, ICD-10 PCS coding, NCCI edits, Resolved coding, TES/claim edits, charging/billing errors, and denials related to the chargemaster list. Ancillary claim edits/coding

United States

Remote

• Provided outpatient facility audit service including ICD-10cm/PCS, CPT, APC reviews within the ED, ancillary, same day surgery, cancer treatment, observation.
• Provided billing and coding support by resolving claim edits and denials by following government & organizational regulatory guidelines.
• Evaluated the accuracy of provider charges, including procedures, level of care, HCC diagnoses, and patient identification.
• Prepared audit reports on non-compliance or error trends to ensure appropriate revenue capture, and/or reduce Accounts Receivable (AR) through the appropriate and efficient process flow.

US

• Analyzed pro-fee, inpatient, and outpatient facility charts by conducting auditing services including ICD 10-CM/PCS coding, CPT, DRG validation, APC reviews within multiple health systems and facilities.
• Provided billing and coding support by resolving claim edits and denials by following government & organizational regulatory guidelines.
• Minimized and maintained the DNFB report by 75% by grouping high dollar amounts and simple claim edits, processing 0-2 day claim resolutions to eliminate the increase of future backlogs.
• Reviewed outpatient medical record information on both a retroactive and prospective basis to identify, assess, monitor and document claims and encounter coding information as it pertains to risk adjustment.

Illinois

• Conducted physician based, observation, ED trauma and outpatient facility coding audits/charge capture.
• Performed professional fee coding, billing, collections, denial management and payment posting.
• Advised departments, including Patient Financial Service and Health Information Services, clinical departments, on resolving TES/claim edits, denials by implementing the charge master list in accordance with regulatory.
• Enforced provider education & training on documentation guidelines, and evaluation & management.
• Provided quarterly reports that included, Executive Summary, Scorecards, and Audits to employees and clients

Gilbert, Arizona

• Conducted, physician based (pro-fee) coding audits/charge capture.
• Performed professional fee coding, billing, collections and payment posting.
• Assisted departments, including Patient Financial Service and Health Information Services, in resolving TES/claim edits, charging/billing errors & denials related to the charge master list in accordance with regulatory.
• Evaluated the accuracy of provider charges, procedures, level of care, HCC diagnoses, ICD-10-PCS/CM, CPT, patient identification.
• Decreased potential oversights by 30% by ensuring production goals were met and promoted education activities.
• Provided quarterly reports that included, Executive Summary, Scorecards, and Audits.

Remote, Contract

• Served as a member of the Executive Leadership team to assist with market research, and develop departmental procedures.
• Oversaw a team of 7 coding supervisors, auditing new coders, refreshed employee relationships, resource planning, allocations, and day-to-day departmental operations.
• Partnered with Executive Leadership to rebuild and implement compliant operations & standardize coding regulations with the United States and globally.
• Oversaw all coding compliance functions for over 250-person coding team including training tools, education, audits, onboarding, pre-employment coding test, conducting reviews and terminations, as needed.
• Managed contract compliance, claims management, process improvement, auditing management systems, change management, and progress payment approvals.
• Communicated coding review findings and education recommendations to reinforce compliance, leadership, and employee growth.

Chicago, Illinois

Contract remote assignment at Ingalls Hospital, conducted OP Charge Capture, Claim Edits, Education, Quality Revenue Reviews.

Provide training, education, DNFB failed claims, resolve Pro-fee, OP & IP claims edits, billing denial edits, CDM review and maintenance, and capture based on documentation and CCI edits. Third party revenue recovery, Medicare revenue recovery, and charge description master review.

Remote, Client Gulf Point Health

• Reviewed operations of the organization and evaluating their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with policies and procedures, laws, and government regulations.
• Audits medical record documentation to identify under coded and upcoded services; prepares reports of findings and meets with coders to provide education and training on accurate coding practices and compliance issues.
• Trains, instructs, and/or provides technical support to medical providers and Medical Coding Analysts as appropriate regarding coding compliance documentation, and regulatory provisions, and third party payer.

Joliet, IL.

• Maintained and updated CPT, ICD-9, & HCPC charge dictionaries for all departmental charge description master.
• Resolved TES/claim edits, billing errors and related to the charge master list in accordance with regulatory guidelines.
• Identified revenue cycle trends and developed compliant charge capture & CDM operations.
• Prepared reports on non-compliance or error trends, ensure appropriate revenue capture, and/or reduce Accounts Receivable (AR) through appropriate and efficient process flow.
• Assisted and reviewed current pricing as compared to Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC), Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and market data to ensure compliant pricing.
• Assisted IT testing with new application implementations & system testing that may impact the CDMs.

Bolingbrook, Illinois

• Assisted in the evaluation of current charging, coding and auditing processes in clinical areas and make recommendations to insure optimal and accurate charge capture.
• Provided guidance and education to departments on appropriate charging and coding practices.
• Maintained and update charge dictionaries for all departmental charge description (CDMs).
• Communicated the CDM dictionary changes and updates impacting other dictionaries or modules for charging, billing, coding and documentation, as appropriate.
• Assisted departments, including Patient Financial Service and Health Information Services, clinical departments, in resolving issues, edits, charging/billing errors or denials related to the charge master list in.
• Completed ICD-10CM & ICD-10PCS training modules via Precyse

Greater Chicago Area

Coding Auditor, provider education, coding, compliance, physician documentation, physician based inpatient & outpatient E/M & multi-surgery auditing, assistant to the coder's on proper level of service and research. ECW System training to providers and clinical staff. Assist in revenue cycle edits, claims and denials. Provide continue education to coders.

300 S. Ashland

• Performed Physician base Orthopedic, Neurology, Pulmonary, Gastro-Intestinal, E/M and surgery coding
• Actively maintained knowledge of CPT and ICD-9 coding principles, protocols and third party billing requirements
• Participated in round table coding discussion to new cases
• Participated in ICD-10CM & ICD-10PC training
• Provided education to providers on documentation and bundling edits
• Assisted the billing department of resolving billing denials and edits

Westchesther, Il.

Ortohpedic inpatient & outpatient physician coding, Billing, Third party reimbursement, claim edits & denials via NextGen and Epic.

Billing, insurance follow up, rienmbursement, final notice, customer service, payment posting, lab reports, coding, adhere to compliance & goverment guidelines. Provide education to prividers on coding & billing goverment guidelines. Specialize in claim edits, denials, charge capture and epic proficient.

payment posting, insurance folloow up/collections

Certificate Of Completion-Bookkeeping, Bookkeeping, 90%

Post entries in the journal, ledger and subsidiary ledgers. Record bank transactions and reconcile bank accounts. Prepare payroll records.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, A

Activities and Societies: Educational and career service tutor Studies in business management, Marketing, Business strategy I&II.

Bs, Business Administration, Healthcare.

Studies in human resource, health informatics, Health insurance, billing, health care management, gerontology, EMR, strategic planning &.

Medical Assistant Certification, Medical/Clinical Assistant