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Supports hospitals, ancillary facilities, and medical staffs in Oregon. Additionally supporting system supply chain contracting.

Tacoma, Washington

Supported hospitals and ancillary facilities in Washington and Oregon, with an emphasis on medical staff matters and collaborating with risk management and compliance.

Renton, Washington

Expertise in regulatory matters including licensure as healthcare service plans under California’s Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act. Worked on HMO licensure matters for Medicare Advantage and commercial health plans. Assists health plans with regulatory compliance matters, material modifications, audit preparation, and training. Compliance expertise in the managed care sector, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled payment initiatives, and other cutting edge risk-sharing arrangements.

Spokane, Washington Area

Represented and counseled start-up and development-stage enterprises on their formation and operation. Prepared a variety of documents including operating agreements, shareholder agreements, applications for federal tax exemption status, and intellectual property licensing agreements. Conducted research and advised clients on issues of trademark strength, patent licensing, copyright licensing, and partnership dissolution. Conducted board governance orientation for newly created healthcare non-profit corporation.

Spokane, Washington Area

Represented low-income elderly clients with a variety of legal issues including access to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, as well as estate planning, tax foreclosure, and family law matters. Interviewed and counseled clients, drafted legal memoranda, case evaluation and planning, fact investigation, identify legal claims and defenses, and communicated with opposing parties and counsel.

Spokane, Washington Area

Recommended appropriate revisions to new or existing policies or procedures utilized by INHS employees and medical professionals across a variety of INHS divisions and services, including St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, Northwest MedStar, and Northwest TeleHealth. Reviewed and revised facility policies as appropriate to maintain adherence to current standards and requirements. Research and analysis of various compliance issues implicating Anti-Kick Back and STARK, liability issues associated with clinical trial agreements, HIPAA, physician credentialing, WA L&I claims, and EMTALA. Assisted in evaluation of a homeowner’s policy insurance claim and a commercial general liability insurance claim, and submitted memos of findings and conclusions. Attended an ethics and HIPAA presentation to inform medical professionals of changes in WA and federal law.

Liberty Lake, Wa

Coordinated workload of, trained and coached Underwriting Assistants and served as technical resource. Screened, rated, and entered transactions for commercial lines of business into multiple rating systems. Ensured accurate and timely issuance of policy transactions and referred to underwriters as needed.

Responsibilities included scanning, filing and importing documents into an online database, filing periodicals in the file room, update and maintain wiki on ARS SharePoint site, add conference announcements to ARS SharePoint site, created and executed project plan for backlogged documents in file room, participate in News and Manager Document meetings and customer service.* Managed essential document project, scanning and importing over 100 documents with perfect accuracy by short deadline of one week, successfully preparing company with all necessary documents for auditor. * Trained temporary employee on project process, including identifying, scanning and filing of over 1000 documents, contributing to project outcome and finishing well before 3 month deadline.* Created and executed project plan for over 10,000 backlogged documents in file room, removing documents to offsite storage as well as converting documents to electronic form to conserve space and ensure that Corporate Library operated at highest efficiency.

Responsibilities included processing new media center materials, work directly with professors to organize use of media center materials in classrooms, and create and maintain bibliographic records of media center materials.• Assisted Supervisor in training of new Student Technicians, communicating expectations of role as well as standards on how to work with diverse group of patrons including students and professors, resulting in new employees contributing quickly to team.• Scheduled use of materials to be shown during classes at professor’s request. Reserved materials included recorded lectures as well documentaries needed for assignments. Materials were scheduled throughout each quarter as needed for over 50 professors and teacher’s assistants.

Responsibilities included customer service, answering phone calls, inventory of media center materials and basic computer work.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts, English