SUMMARY:

• I am a COBOL Programmer with 33 years of experience in the healthcare industry. I am highly skilled in Patient Accounts, ADT and Medical Record systems. Have served as project lead and team lead on multiple installation projects. I am very knowledgeable in the day - to-day business operations of healthcare institutions.
• Very strong coding skills in COBOL, ADSPLUS, HL7, DB2, IMS and VSAM
• Solid skills on Unisys platform with COBOL, DMSII, COMS and WFL
• System Installation, Implementation, and Customization
• Supported McKesson (HBOC PMAS) Patient Accounting
• Supported McKesson (HBOC PMAS) Patient Access (ADT) and Medical Records
• Supported McKesson (HBOC HealthQuest) Patient Accounting
• Supported Home Grown Patient Access (ADT) system written in ADS with IMS data bases
• Comlink and HBOC Interface Manager
• Strong interface skills
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Strong end-user and client liaison skills

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / SYSTEMS:

Patient Accounts, ADT, Medical Records, and CCS

ADT/Patient Accounting

UCLA ADT System written with IMS and ADSPLUS

Excellent in TSO/ISPF, MVS, z/OS, VSAM, VSAM-EDIT, File Manager, SQL, FTP and JCL

Unisys base CANDE, WFL, DMSII, AND COMS

Microsoft - Word, Excel, Access, Project

Knowledge of Endevor, Librarian and Eclipse

Support Tracking Products ServiceNow and Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Akron, OH

Responsibilities:

• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, ODLI
• Supported McKesson (HBOC Plus2000) ADT, Patient Accounts and Medical Records
• Created production Patient Accounts reports
• Create payment and adjustment posting programs

Confidential, Fargo, ND

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Unisys Mainframe, COBOL, DMSII, WFL, COMS, CANDE
• Team lead for CTG Service Delivery Team
• Create process to allow bypass of specific key data and install in multiple programs. This allows any program this is install in to be able to bypass records causing issues by a simple update through an online process instead of putting code in the program that would have to then be removed.
• Work on multiple RX Claims projects. Including handling duplicate RX accumulators, handling Accumulators in error, creating abort logic so RX process can be restarted after being fixed.
• Handle all technical interviews to build staff of 10 consultants and Client Service Manager.
• Handle technical interviews and perform all on-board training for nine additional Consultants
• Assisted with CSM duties first two months.

Prod Support

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, SQL
• Support UCLA Home Grown ADT system
• Support McKesson (HealthQuest) ADT and Patient Accounting system
• 24/7 Oncall support for ADT applications and HeathQuest applications system
• Created production ADT reports
• Create HealthQuest programs to recreate Rebill and Mail date files
• Create HealthQuest file splitting program to handle payment reversals

PMAS PROD Support

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, ODLI
• Supported McKesson (HBOC PMAS) ADT, Patient Accounts and Medical Records
• Resolved problems with DRG calculations
• Enhanced Collection Campaign process
• Authored online interface from CARE system to HBOC. The interface took O/P pre-admits, admits, discharges and E/R admits and discharges from the CARE system and updated the HBOC system. This was accomplished by swapping regions and for each function executing the normal HBOC code with modification to ensure hat no screens were displayed from the HBOC system
• Enhanced online interface from CARE system to HBOC to include the insurance modules. This included adding, updating, deactivating, reprioritizing payers and financial class changes, to include the updating of the MSP for Medicare payers
• Responsible for maintaining batch ADT interface
• Setup HBOC archive and purge jobs. Created restore process that allows the user to request an account to be restored through an online process. Created batch process that only requires the operator to submit one job. Designed the process so that the defined programs build the necessary JCL to run the process for as many different purge years as necessary, thus eliminating the need for the operator to know what tape data set the accounts are located on to do the restore
• Served as technical lead on installation of HBOC PMAS release 10.5, 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0 for ADT, Patient Accounts and Medical Records. Responsibilities included, but were not limited to:
• Building and testing of the vanilla region
• Merging the code
• Building the Test region with the client modified code
• Planning and execution of a successful install to the production region
• Create batch reports
• Created batch HL7 interface from Cerner to HBOC PMAS system. This included reading the HL7 files, editing the data and building the data base segments for all ADT transactions in PMAS system
• Create post payment process to read 835 formatted Lock Box file and post payments for Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial and Patient payments
• Create Ad-Hoc reports for Finance
• Key player in closing down HBOC. Including meeting with user Management teams and IT Management team to determine functionality and reports necessary to maintain system as it winds down. Meeting with outside Vendors to help choose a platform to store HBO instead of mainframe. Including modifying production run schedule and removing jobs as they become obsolete.
• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, ODLI
• Supported McKesson (HBOC PMAS) ADT, Patient Accounts, Medical Records and CCS
• Modified billing program to place CPT4 codes with modifiers on the UB92 for selected inpatients. This required updates to the Service Master, Third Party, UB92 form macro and billing program PCIBILL
• Created a billing program clone that would process accounts that reimbursement had been recalculated after the original bill. The program would recalculate the contractual adjustment without the users having to request rebills for the accounts. This eliminating the printing of unnecessary bills and save user time
• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, ODLI
• Key player in the successful install of HBOC PMAS release 10.4 for ADT, Patient Accounts, Medical Records and Clinical Care System, to include, but not limited to, the process of merging the code, all levels of testing, development of the ‘go live’ plan and on site support during the ‘go live’
• Upgraded all billing programs and statement programs
• Responsible for merging the Toledo modification of the old BTS version On-The-Move to the new batch version
• Responsible for setting up all batch schedules for each of the testing sessions, to ensure that all the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly jobs were run at the appropriate time so that the correct reports were available to verify the accuracy of the system test

Confidential, Lakeland, FL

Senior System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, FTP, ADSPLUS, ODLI
• Maintaining billing system, applying all state and federal regulatory code changes as well as site required modifications. Supervise the maintenance of service master and third party data bases, including prorations and contractual adjustment programs
• Responsible for all Patient Accounts system modifications. This includes the analysis, time estimating, attending of all meetings with P.A. management team, writing of specifications and writing programs
• Create charging system that allow direct posting from any department from dynamic charge screens that are tailor for each department.
• The creating and modification of the screens and charging options are all handled by non-technical personnel, removing the programming staff from the maintenance of these charges screens
• Develop system to meet hospital requirements for restructuring from a traditional nurse station with ancillary charging to a decentralized environment with sub-ancillaries though out the hospital. This included development of multiple charging and ordering processes that allowed revenue to be routed to any of the 25 different cost centers under each nurse station or any cost center of the sub-ancillaries
• Key member of install team fro IBAX release 87.2 for ADT, Patient Accounts and Medical Records systems. This was a conversion from the NDC system
• Key member of install team fro IBAX release 10 for same systems plus CCS. This was a full upgrade of all IBAX systems consisting of over 18,000 modules

Confidential, Lakeland, FL

Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Advance from Computer Operator trainee to Shift Supervisor in two years