Christian Patterson

Christian Patterson is a Medical professional with 9 years experience in billing, coding and administrative work; seeking gainful employment with an established company. She is Motivated, detail-orientated self-starter with a positive attitude and strong work ethic. She is also adept at handling multiple tasks by establishing priorities to accomplish goals within set deadlines

Her Current & Past Roles include:

• Responsible for checking invalid, rejected and denied claims in Ambulatory Claims Manager (ACM);
• Follow up on unpaid claims;  reviews denials, provides information to third party payers in order to process claims by date due; documents actions, communications with payers  in practice management system; ensures secondary insurances are filed as appropriate
• Generates information on overpaid insurance; reviews and determines cause/s for credit balance. Processes credit balance per office procedure
• Responds timely and accurately to all billing related inquiries made by physicians, patients, and third party payers. Documents all billing related activity under patient ledgers on the billing system.
• Posts payments to patient accounts via remittance advice and error reports
• Posted Medicaid payments from remittance advice to home health patient’s accounts into Medisoft.
• Manually post charges onto Medicaid web portal, enter patients home health visits from task sheets into Excel spreadsheet by location
• Scheduled appointments, in-office procedures and hospital follow-ups for Pediatric Neurologists. Pulled patient medical records from hospital system.
• Process referrals into practice; enter and update patient’s demographic and insurance information. Scheduled in/out patient procedures with hospital, sub-lying facilities and clinics per physician’s order. Work with pre-certification department to ensure procedures are scheduled within the approved time frame.
• Met with nurse to make sure the physician’s meetings, vacations and on-call schedule is blocked in Prime Suite. Work with nurse & MA to monitor schedule and keep canceled appointments filled with work in and emergent patients by tracking cancellation list.
• Made and kept track of monthly Botox schedule. Faxed appointments back to the referring provider.  Scanned medical records and referrals into EMR.