Napoli Shkolnik PLLC

Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance & lien resolution paralegal for Asbestos division of firm.  Formerly Client Liason Team, Plaintiff side. Assisted clients in Pharma, Toxic Tort (Asbestos) Ground Zero and Environmental litigations with questions and concerns. Special projects as needed, doing client intake and screening for various plaintiff litigations. Filing in DE Supreme Court, DE Superior Court, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, NY Courts, Cecil County MD & Baltimore City Circuit Asbestos, as well as District Courts on PACER. Served local & long armor in Pharma & Asbestos cases.  Delaware Notary. Worked with defense counsel to schedule depositions, making sure prerequisite documents had been exchanged. Did monthly deadline calendar from Asbestos MTSO, deposition schedule & District Court CMO. Drafted & filed new complaints.

Paralegal

Balick & Balick LLC

Plaintiff-side Asbestos paralegal for Delaware local counsel for Weitz & Luxenberg. Maintained very active deposition calendar, requesting dates, making sure all discovery was filed prior to deposition and making sure all out-of-state attorneys had Delaware Pro Hac Vice in place. Maintained calendar for all litigation deadlines and kept attorneys and team members informed of deadlines. Monitored all cases in District of Delaware and filed documents for them. Filed new complaints. Procured vendor for long-arm service. E-filed motions, responses in opposition and other documents in Superior Court.

Paralegal-Asbestos-Plaintiff

Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP

Plaintiff-side Asbestos and Pharma work. Filed new cases on Lexis File & Serve,  prepared case documents for Prothonotary and Long-Arm service, contacted clients and gathered information for Interrogatories, assisted Deposition team by contacting clients to let them know when their deposition was to be held, collected information from clients regarding their deposition, tracked depositions to make sure all documents such as Pro Hac Vice documents and Cross Notices were filed in a timely manner on Lexis File & Serve. Updated computer database with deposition information. Did Product Identification on computer database for cases. Filed discovery documents on Lexis File & Serve. Directed office move including office machinery and furniture sourcing. Administrative duties such as writing service checks and Accounts Payable. (Pharma case work: Xarelto, Z-Pak, Plavix & Vaginal Mesh.) Delaware Notary Public.

Senior Asbestos/Pharma Paralegal-Plaintiff

The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos

Plaintiff-side Asbestos work. Contracts: releases: manage asbestos releases from settlement with defendant to payment of client. Complete Medicare Secondary Payer paperwork. Trial prep: medical record summaries, docket files. Client contact: answer client's questions involving settlements. Administrative: editing/proofreading legal documents (especially releases) and correspondence, sending out settlement checks to clients.

Asbestos Legal Assistant-Plaintiff (Contract through Just Legal, Inc.) 

MedClaims International

Made sure company, which was working under a Business Associate agreement with hospitals all over the US & Puerto Rico, was compliant with Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and HIPAA. Researched why health insurer (public, ie Medicare, Medicaid, or private such as BC/BS or Humana, etc) did not pay facility medical claim and fixed whatever the issue was so that the claim would pay. Researched legal issues for corporate manager and/or attorney. Worked with patients' estate attorneys to obtain patient share of payments. Worked with public entities such as DSS, Dept. of Labor, IRS, State Depts of Insurance, State Attorney Generals to resolve compliance issues with insurance companies refusing to pay claims that the law says they should have paid. Interfaced with insurance company compliance departments to ensure regulations and laws were being complied with pertaining to our cases. Researched medical coding (ICD-9, CPT & HCPCS) issues to make sure hospital has coded claim correctly to gain reimbursement. Billed both private and public insurance payors using UB04 form and electronic billing. Completed insurance appeals and Fair Hearings. Did (and won) RAC appeals. Served as paralegal for company attorney. Assisted attorney in preparing cases for trial.

Appeals Coordinator/Paralegal

Widener Law Library                                                                  2006

Provided general support with cataloguing, shelving and researching new acquisitions. Assisted students and visiting practitioners in locating materials in the library. Conducted library tours for paralegal students and classmates.

Technical Services Staff - Student Worker Position

Delaware Attorney General's Office

July 2006-September 2006-Paralegal intern in Medicaid Fraud & Elder Abuse unit-Searched through seized evidence for information to support department's case in large nursing home fraud and abuse case. Filed, identified and catalogued evidence. Developed system of cataloguing evidence for department.
September 2006-August 2007-Paralegal intern in Consumer Fraud Division. Assisted attorney in organizing evidence and research for a large consumer-fraud case.

Paralegal Intern

Plumbmaster Inc.

Call Center-plumbing repair parts industry. Answered up to 125 calls per day. Took orders, traced orders, solved order problems. Sold additional product by outbound calls to existing customers or adding on to called-in orders. Taught catalog and products to warehouse and assembly workers as well as all new hires to customer service department. Won award for Salesman of the Quarter based on sales volume.

Customer Service Representative

Danco Division of NCH Corporation

Same duties as Plumbmaster. Plumbmaster was a part of NCH Corporation as was Danco. NCH sold Plumbmaster and kept Danco, and half of the staff went with one company and half went with the other.

Plumbmaster

Answered up to 120 inbound calls per day. Took orders, sought add-on sales. Helped customers identify needed items from 600-page catalog. Solved customer problems with shipments. Acted in cooperation with outside sales rep to ensure customer satisfaction & grow sales in territory. Trained warehouse staff and new CSRs in catalog and product identification in classroom and one-in-one settings.

Customer Service Rep

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong compliance research skills: monitor and communicate changes in healthcare laws and regulations to business leaders and attorneys
Training Skills:  prepared and delivered many (some all-day) training sessions
Medical skills:  interpreting doctors' and nurses' notes, medical charts (translate to lay terms), facility billing & coding (UB04), ICD-9, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS; medical legal summaries for attorneys; medical research using Pub Med and other medical research databases
Leadership Skills:  Researched and recommended software adoption to improve company profit, researched and recommended vendor for legal long-arm service
Top-notch communicator, expediter, efficient problem solver and finisher
Proficient with: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Westlaw, Lexis, Loislaw, Accurint, Navinet, Emdeon Net Direct & Availity; have used Quickbooks and Net Suite for AR functions 
Legal: E-filing in PA Courts, Baltimore City Circuit Court, Lexis File & Serve, District Courts & Pacer, Delaware Court of Common Pleas; Delaware Notary Public; legal research using law library, Lexis and Westlaw products
Quick, smart, independent, self-starting, results-driven, team oriented contributor

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