David Mark Silver

David Mark Silver is an experienced diversified accounting professional seeking to complete transition into the healthcare field as a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) where acquired and applied educational skills can be used in a medical administrative position.    

Skills:

• Anatomy and Physiology                                  
• ICD-9-CM Coding                                    
• Airborne & Bloodborne Pathogens
• MediSoft: Administrative Software
• Effectively resolve conflictive situations with beneficial outcomes
• Capable of meeting strict deadlines
• Valuable team player with multitasking abilities
• HCPCS Level II Coding
• 1st & 3rd Party Billing
• Medical Ethics
• CPT Coding
• Data Entry
• MOSS/Synapse: EHR/EMR
• Microsoft Office
• QuickBooks

Certifications:

2011       Certified Professional Coder- Current Member of AAPC
1987       Certified Public Accountant- Current Member of PICPA/AICPA

Experience:

• Electronically created secondary claims and sent claims to secondary payers (after Medicare processing)
• Reviewed paid Medicare claims and updated practice software (e.g. MEDICS) to reflect payment
• Acquired knowledge and application of procedural coding for Physical medicine specialty
• Assisted with maintaining an accurate database for Cancer Registry Department; updating cancer stages and grading of former/current patients utilizing provider data sheets and pathology reports.   
• Provided patients with information about hospital services and assist with daily needs.   
• Processing hundreds of patient charts daily assigning E/M, Surgery and Medicine Section codes incorporating both facility and payer-specific guidelines.
• Produced extensive financial documentation of hundreds of educational programs satisfying internal control requirements.
• Developed revised financial statement review steps after uncovering financial statement filing errors.
• Initiated change of bank lease contracts and related accounting for bank leases after completing regulation research.
• Developed flowcharting standard for financial information systems documentation using annotated screen prints and detailed supporting narratives for a cross-training tool.

Achievements:

• Created $40K monthly increase to the bottom line due to accounting research of treatment for bulk mail advertising.
• Reduced monthly close by 67%, from 15 days to 5 days, and eliminated over 100 monthly work hours by effectively utilizing the Oracle implemented tools; which resulted in consolidating 3 positions within loan processing department.
• Surpassed department daily quotas for claims processed and database updates of posted payments
• Served as project leader for fixed asset tracking software implementation and management along with the initiation of bank owned vehicle and officer relocation expense reimbursement policies.
• Identified key discrepancies in revenue and expense recognition calculations including $12K monthly unbilled program revenue; which prevented external audit management comments.
• Quickly gained and applied knowledge of patient charting, exceeding production quotas necessary to complete scanning and uploading of 24,000 patient charts within 2 months  
• Achieved proficiency within EMR system navigation and utility features to create export of specific patient data sets (e.g. Care360 by Quest, Mdr by DST Health Solutions)  
• Achieved top performer group status for surpassing both volume and quality control standards and have been rewarded amongst top quarterly bonus recipients
• Commended by management for recommending process enhancements including changes that providers have made in their documentation of their services to support proper coding.