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Moscow, Id, Us

25 bed Critical Access Hospital with 2 RHC's, 1 Fee for Service, and 1 Hospital Based Clinic. Manage 14 staff including 5 AR Follow up representatives, 2 Financial Counselors, 1 Credentialing Specialist, 1bad debt/self-pay representative, 4 Billing representatives, and 1 front desk staff, and 1 Revenue CycleSupervisor. Manage productivity, denials management, timely billing of claims, CDM price setting, and hitting AR day targets for average daily revenue an aged AR management. Report directly to the CFO creating weekly KPI graphs and keeping them up to date on patient complaints and PR issues that may affect the Hospitals communities image. Weekly staff meetings going over the top 25 high dollar claims, top 25 high dollar denials, patient complaints, discussing monthly cash goals and objectives. Take a project approach for achieving clean claim percentages by reviewing patterns of denials and working with department Supervisor to create edits to stop and hold claims to be reviewed by billers.  Work closely with Patient Access manager to review registration errors and have worked diligently to collect co-pays at time of service. Current project is the MSP questionnaire attempting to achieve 100% compliance and collection of data requirements. Have brought AR days down from 66 to 51 which includes 13 AR days of self-pay. Recently completed a RFP to bring on a second Self-Pay third party vendor to determine if which vendor has a better collection ratio for the hospital.

Port Townsend, Wa, Us

25 bed Critical Access Hospital with 4 FQHC Rural Health Clinics located in Port Townsend, WA. Create Epic monthly reports to be used by the Controller and CFO to prepare monthly closing financial statements. Provide bi-weekly physician RVU reports for provider compensation and bonuses. Oversee the creation of the reports used in the yearly Medicare Cost Report as well as supply information to both external and internal auditors. Ad-Hoc reporting from Epic to be used by the Director of Revenue Cycle as well as Clinic Managers. Work with the billing manager on reviewing open denials as well as data mine for root causes. Work with CFO on Pro-formas on new lines of business as well as new Capital Equipment for break-even analysis. Reimbursement analysis to ensure Jefferson Healthcare is receiving all contract allowable and work to ensure that our charges are in line with our competitors. Responsible for setting goals and performance improvement to reduce front end denials by working with Emdeon on creating rules for clean claims. Create monthly actual to budget analysis by department as well as executive level explanations for future forecasting modeling. Use Tableau software to create executive level dashboards based on populations of age, chronic disease, morbidity, andlength of stay to establish baselines for future value based healthcare payments and MACRA (Medicare payment reform).

Sacaton, Az, Us

IHS-638 Hospital non-profit hospital dedicated to supporting the Gila River Indian Community located 40 miles South west of Phoenix, AZ Oversee all operations of revenue cycle, patient registration, and behavioral health, benefit coordinators, and managedcare for the region. Reporting structure consists of 3 managers and 165 employees over the region. Over the past year, upgraded, implemented and optimized the EMR NextGen, Dentrix, Optix, and Plexis. Average monthly revenue through 2014 and 2015 was 5.5 million dollars. From Q3/4 2015 to current, 7.1 million dollars permonth. Have reduced backlog of unbilled AR by nearly 6 months in the last year. Over the past 12 months, hired nearly 30 additional staff to support each revenue cycle department to improve access forthe community. Oversee the entire employment process, including budgeting and reviews, for all designated revenue cycle employees. Report directly to the Chief Financial Officer. Over the last 12 months, increased collections by 18 million dollars and increased billing by 26 million dollars. Reduced AR days for 84 to 47 over the past 6 months by strategically employing staff as well as contract agencies to helpwith AR backlog. FEMA credentialed in emergency operations from Huntsville, AL. Also credentialed in bio-hazard materials emergencymanagement response. Member of the Indian Health Services EMS Committee; goal to restructure reimbursement for ambulance services for theState of Arizona. Attend monthly Arizona Medicaid Committee to refine and develop DSRIP; a program designed to improve collaborationand a medical home model between multiple hospitals to decrease hospital readmissions and increase quality outcomes. Member of the Elderly Concerns Committee which was formed to assist with healthcare needs of the community.

Spokane, Washington, Us

Currently manage the daily billing, A/R management, and Cash Applications for Imagine Behavioral & Developmental.2014 Goals:* Work with executive team to implement a new billing platform for entire organization which includes 6 businesses in 4 states.* New role will be a systems administrator for new billing platform which includes training end users and working with the implementation team to design specialized applications for each individual line of business.

Renton, Wa, Us

Currently manage the day to day operations over three specialty clinics. 2013 Goals:* Increase patient Satisfaction* Increase patient access to our specialty clinics* Work collaboratively with both internal and external customers to increase referral base.* Increase provider productivity* Decrease controllable expensesCurrent role includes all staff hiring, reviews, provider schedules, patient satisfaction, provider productivity, referral growth, decreasing denials through correct billing initiatives, and vendor relations.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Current Manager of all Government Accounts Receivable for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Renton, Wa, Us

• Manage a high performance team responsible for operational and financial reporting, budgeting, and decision support.• Create monthly operational performance reports that illustrate variance between budget to actual and present findings to executive leadership.• Provide monthly gap analysis summary report that portrays revenue stream changes on a monthly basis that explains expected and unexpected variances.• Create weekly dashboard that includes Pre-A/R, Current A/R, Denials, Self-Pay, and Credits and break down each by aging categories to identify at risk accounts receivable.• Evaluate at risk A/R to determine if aged A/R and denials are a result of process inefficiency’s, changing payer requirements, or system issues.• Manage the Charge Master for the ambulatory clinics across three states.• Monitor reimbursement from all payers’s to ensure maximum reimbursement of all CPT/HCPCS codes. • Review national CMS TRVU’s to establish following years pricing and load WRVU’s in system as well as produce provider productivity reports for current year and forecast provider productivity for upcoming year.• Monthly review of primary and specialty provider productivity by creating scheduling reports that reviews patient access, provider third next available appointments schedules, provider fill rates, and compare them to MGMA median benchmarks.

Renton, Wa, Us

General Accounting. - Job Summary: Conduct and document complex financial, budget, and operating data extraction and analysis projects; Organize and extract data to prepare monthly financial, statistical, operating, and productivity reports. Create monthly A/R Summary reports; Create monthly Regional Dashboard Reports.

Renton, Wa, Us