2015 Annual Training Conference & Anti-Fraud Expo

Melissa Scott, CHC, CPC
President
ClinLab Consultants


Melissa Scott brings over 15 years of diverse healthcare experience to ClinLab Consultants. She serves as an outside billing, compliance and system analytics consultant for entities ranging from clinical laboratories, physician offices, hospitals, academic medical centers, to health plans. Her specialties include forensic analytics, litigation support, audits, compliance program effectiveness assessments, revenue cycle optimization, and implementation of operational best practices. She authored a monthly column featured in Advance for Medical Laboratory Professionals as “Dear Labby,” providing advice related to laboratory billing, reimbursement, and compliance, and has been a featured speaker for the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA). Previously, Mrs. Scott was the Revenue Cycle Manager for the Department of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), a large academic medical center based in Portland, OR. While there, she was responsible for optimization of billing and coding practices for twelve specialty clinics. This included ongoing financial analyses, audits, benchmarking practice efficiencies, denials management and root cause analysis, and best practice implementation. Her proactive management style lead to a significant increase in collections and decrease in days in accounts receivable. Prior to OHSU, Mrs. Scott was a business and compliance analyst for Kaiser Permanente's Northwest Region. She collaborated primarily with the laboratory, imaging, and pharmacy departments to identify and address potential regulatory exposure in their revenue cycle and billing operations. She designed and delivered department-wide education to help facilitate best practice work flow changes and implementation of new policies and procedures. Mrs. Scott graduated from Linfield College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. She successfully completed additional training and obtained board Certification in Healthcare Compliance (CHC)

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