Vanitha Kesavan Email & Phone Number

India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Currently playing the CRM role for 26 providers with the team of 45 coding associates• Heading a team of 45 medical coders in close interaction with the client stakeholders• Handling the client calls and Daily/weekly and Monthly communication with the client.• Maintaining feedback from the client and clearing the issues and maintaining the accuracy rateGuide the coding team on day-to-day operations• Handling transition projects and arrive at resource plan• Guide the coding team on day-to-day operations – Productivity, Quality & TAT• Coach and mentor, the new joiners to bring them up to the speed• Interact with the client team to ensure expectations in delivery are met and exceeded.• Work with the quality team to coordinate quality goals are defined and achieved as per client expectations.• Giving the provider education and helping them on the documentation

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai Area, India

• Responsible for multiple projects with multiple specialties• Track record of various projects dealing with specialties such as Radiology, E&MMaintain the internal quality report of the team• Maintaining feedback from the client and clearing the issues and maintaining the accuracy rateReview and evaluation of the “Provider Coding” across specialties such as Radiology, Surgery (Neurosurgery, OB Gyne, Ortho, and General surgery), E&M, Internal medicine, Family practice.• Driving transition of my company and my clients to ICD 10.• Guide the coding team on day-to-day operations• Coach and mentor the new joiners to bring them upto the speed• Plan and manage productivity, quality and TAT.• Interact with the client team to ensure expectations in delivery are met and exceeded.• Work with the quality team to coordinate quality goals are defined and achieved as per client expectations.• Work with vendors in niche areas and ensure deliverables.• Expert in absorbing any new accounts • Expertise in excel and power point• Handled a peak coding team size of 30 medical coding associates

Chennai Area, India

• Reviewing and verifying the medical records to ensure completeness and accuracy of Diagnosis, operations, and special therapeutic procedures that must confirm to the standards• Identifying the correct principal diagnosis and principal procedure based on physician’s attestation record documentation and established sequencing rules and guidelines • Querying physicians when code assignments are not straightforward or documentation in the record is inadequate, ambiguous, or unclear for coding purposes.• Analyzing medical records for consistency and completeness for coding purposes using established criteria and regulations • Abstracts pertinent information from patient records thereby assigning ICD-9-CM, CPT codes