Medical Office Manager seeks change

Posted on: 2017-05-12

I am looking for a new experience and a new challenge. After 11 years in the same management position I am looking to branch out and see if I can learn new and exciting ways to challenge myself and maximize my potential. I am looking for a career where I can apply my common sense problem solving abilities and find somewhere where career growth is possible and will give me something to work for.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Medical Office Manager

Paulina Medical Clinic 

Chicago, IL                                                                                                                           July 2005 to September 2016

 
Oversee billing, coding, and collections, schedule appointments, maintain medical records, reconcile account information, pay medical office bills, order medical and office supplies, submit claims to insurance, process company's response to claims, submit billing statements to patients, delegate responsibilities, perform data entry and processing, develop and implement office policies and procedures, formulate objectives and processes, generate inventory records, provide educational material for patients. In 2015 the clinic converted to electronic medical records. I was placed solely in charge of this and my responsibilities included installing and converting all medical records and office information from old medical software to the new online hardware, including merging all old files and linking up mobile tablets and laptops to a main server on my own.

Reception / General Office

Armstrong Brothers Tool Company 

Chicago, IL                                                                                                                           June 1999 to May 2003

60646 
 
Switchboard, fax, filing, accounts receivable, detailed credit checks, purchasing history sheets for customers, mailroom, first point of contact for incoming salesmen and customers.

Leasing Agent

Avondale Office Center 

Chicago, IL                                                                                                                           August 1995 to June 1999

60631 
 
Showed available office space for lease, prepared lease contracts, collected rent from 35 tenants, handles all correspondence between office center and tenants. Received all maintenance calls and dispatched maintenance crew according to job priority. Payroll, accounts payable and receivable.

SKILLS:

CAD (Less than 1 year), Medical Terminology (10+ years), Medisoft (10+ years), Medical Billing (8 years)

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES

LEADS Certification

November 2016 to November 2018

Illinois State Police Full Access certification must be achieved by LEADS operators who enter and maintain 
Computerized Hot File (CHF) records and respond to requests for hit confirmation. The 
focus of this course is inquiries/response interpretation, criminal history inquiries, hot file hit 
interpretation, LEADS policy and procedures, security awareness training, as well as CHF 
maintenance.

Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation

June 2016 to Present

Offered through Cornell University Online: Sharks are part of a larger group, formally known as chondrichthyans that includes the sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras. We’ll consider all of these animals. This is an exciting time to be a biologist because of the explosion of new research using advanced technologies. Digital communication helps scientists quickly exchange information, knit together research teams, and find a global community of people committed to the study of sharks. Unfortunately, such progress is happening at the very moment of a looming extinction crisis that threatens the very survival of sharks and places our focus on actions to conserve sharks. 

HHP100: OpioidX: The Opioid Crisis in America

April 2017 to Present

This course challenges preconceptions about addiction and about who can become addicted to opioids. One of our main goals is to reduce the stigma that exists around addiction in general, and help people learn about the multiple pathways to treatment. You will learn about these topics from a variety of medical experts and observe stories from people who have experienced addiction themselves, or who have had a family member overdose. 
 
Material covered in this course is authoritative, evidence-based, and presented by doctors and other policy and harm reduction experts. Medical content in this course offers information for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for personal medical advice, which should be obtained directly from a physician.

GeorgetownX: GUIX-501-04x Terrorism and Counterterrorism: An Introduction

March 2017 to Present

Terrorism has gone from a persistent yet marginal security concern to one of the most important security  
problems of our day: indeed, there are few countries that do not suffer from some form of terrorism. Though  
many terrorist attempts fail, some groups wage lengthy and bloody campaigns and, in exceptional cases, kill  
hundreds or even thousands in pursuit of their ends. 
Course topics include the nuances involved in defining terrorism, the nature of Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other  
important groups, the effectiveness of different counterterrorism tools like detention and military force,  
linkages (or the lack thereof) between terrorism and world religions like Islam, terrorist recruiting, the rule of  
law, the political context in South Asia and the Middle East, and terrorist use of technology.

HarvardX: AT1x AnatomyX: Musculoskeletal Cases

December 2015 to Present

AnatomyX: Musculoskeletal Cases is a learning experience focused on the fundamentals of musculoskeletal anatomy. The course aims to help learners achieve: 1) an understanding of the anatomy basic to five commonly occurring musculoskeletal injuries, 2) recognition of the fundamental relationship between anatomical structure and function, 3) an ability to integrate and correlate data from multiple sources, including gross anatomy, histology, radiology, and clinical/surgical considerations, and 4) an appreciation of the principle that sound anatomical knowledge is one of the fundamental underpinnings for sound clinical decision-making. 
 

HarvardX: HUM1.5x Book Sleuthing: The Nineteenth Century

March 2016 to Present

This module investigates what scholars know about nineteenth-century reading, as well as how they know it. Test what you can figure out about a book with your eyes closed; then open them, to scan the margins and endpapers for clues to who read it and why. In this module, we will examine books for clues to the lives of the people though whose hands they passed: readers, owners, borrowers, sharers. In the process, we will gain historical perspective on today’s shift from print to digital media. 
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COMPUTER SKILLS 
Peachtree, QuickBooks, Medisoft Medical Billing, ChARMs EMR, Lotus, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.