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Mahankali Bhargav Shekhar

Mahankali Bhargav Shekhar

Hyderabad

Summary

Healthcare professional with 10+ years of experience in U.S. Revenue Cycle Management. Expertise in optimizing workflows, driving operational efficiency, and utilizing strong analytical skills to enhance revenue and reduce denials. Highly organized with excellent people management abilities, fostering collaboration and delivering impact results

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Managar

Accordion Partners Pvt Ltd
09.2024 - Current

-Streamlined RCM workflows to cut AR days and increase clean claim rates using data-driven insights

-Designed and implemented RCM KPI dashboards to enhance executive visibility into AR performance

-Led RCM analytics workshops to up-skill staff on data tools, metrics interpretation, and practical applications

-Collaborated with billing and coding teams to analyze denial trends and apply data-driven solutions that reduced denials

-Aligned analytics initiatives with financial goals through collaboration with stakeholders and RCM directors, boosting cash collections.

Assistant Manager

Optum Global Advantage
10.2020 - 09.2024
  • Collaborating with onshore partners in streamlining the process and reviewing the inventory on weekly basis
  • Preparing SOPs on various complex scenarios which can help the team members for better processing on invoices towards resolution
  • Publishing reports on daily inventory w.r.t Dollar vs Aging for all work queues
  • Performing quality audits on daily basis and publishing data on weekly basis and providing the feedback to the users on quality errors
  • Publishing the inventory reports w.r.t to denials and reason code for top 5 payers across the work queues
  • Taking daily team huddles to discuss on issues, process scenarios and challenges that team is facing, to provide resolutions and keeping team engaged
  • Preparing weekly Decks for client call which include teams production, quality and daily inventory flow
  • Simplifying the inventory by finding various trends and also mitigate the repeated steps in consolidating team production and preparing daily & weekly reports

Subject Matter Expert

Optum Global Advantage
01.2017 - 09.2020
  • Preparing SOPs on various complex scenarios which can help the team members to understand and take necessary actions
  • Maintaining the process updates tracker on regular basis, based on the updates provided by onshore
  • Conducting monthly PKT’s with the team to ensure all the team members are well versed on the subject knowledge
  • Tracking daily inventory flow from all the work Queues on aging, high dollar, and top contributing refunds
  • Finding Global issue/ trends from all the work queues to reduce the bulk inventory
  • Helping the team on the requirements in the absence of supervisor
  • Effectively involved in the team huddles on daily basis to understand any process challenges and documenting the minutes for better understanding
  • Prime responsibility is to audit worked inventory and share the daily audits scores, monthly quality scores with the team
  • Provide feedback session to the entire team based on the error trend analysis identified on audits
  • Resolving issues identified in the process and providing appropriate results to external and internal teams
  • Maintain escalation tracker based on the client feedback received and implementing learning opportunities with the team
  • Providing resolutions on client responses and emails
  • Very much focused on achieving business metrics internal and external
  • Engaging the team on employee engagement activities in absence of supervisor

Senior Associate

Optum Global Advantage
01.2017 - 05.2017
  • Working on healthcare claims and resolving the aged inventory in the given time frame
  • Worked on denials to ensure there is one touch resolution on the invoices processed
  • Co-ordinating with other departments to understand the resolution and taking appropriate action
  • Worked on high dollar inventory besides that also focused to maintain 100% quality
  • Assisting new joiners in the team and resolving any process related quires
  • Taken additional initiatives in consolidating and tracking inventory report on process level
  • Responsible in consolidating the daily production files worked by the team members
  • Basis on my performance I have been promoted to Subject Matter expert G-24 at Optum Global advantage

Senior Billing Analyst

Phycare Services India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2017
  • Worked on various denials and sending paper appeal letters to insurance in resolving the denials
  • Preparing Denial Dash boards and publishing into client portal
  • Working on Ratio Analysis and revenue gain/loss reports for the project
  • Conducting quality checks on claims billing process
  • Preparing Quality reports based on the speciality wise and presenting to the physicians
  • Sending the new providers list to insurances for provider credentialing data
  • Co-ordinating with payment posting team in identifying the credit invoices and resolving the credit

Senior Compliance Analyst

Hinduja Global Solutions
12.2012 - 04.2014
  • Review and Audit healthcare claims from Quality and Compliance perspective
  • Prepare weekly review reports and release Leadership and Compliance Dashboards weekly, monthly, and Quality dashboards
  • Provide floor support to executives on process knowledge by conducting daily meeting and monitor quality of the projects by doing RCA on the errors
  • Provide timely feedback to the process associates
  • Manage Reiteration of Process flows among peers
  • Prepare exit/movement report across the projects and ensure 100% adherence to the checklist
  • Maintain client complaints tracker and voice of customer’s tracker
  • Key responsibility to conduct risk analysis, monitor quality control and reduce process gaps to mitigate any compliance violation and implementation of protective measure
  • Trained new hires on Compliance aspects aspect and track and conduct Annual Compliance
  • Publish the monthly score card for client metrics for all the sub processes and track the action plans for all the not met metrics

Education

Master of Business Administration -

M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Management (MSRIM)
01.2011

B.Sc. - Computer science

Bhawans Vivekananda degree college
01.2009

Intermediate - undefined

Narayana Junior College
01.2005

Schooling - undefined

Siddhartha High school
01.2003

Languages

English
Hindi
Telugu
Kannada

Rewards And Recognition

  • Received SuperHero of Optum award for year 2022
  • Received Managerial excellence award in the year 2023
  • Received Extra Miler award for the Quarter in HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS PVT LTD

Skills

  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Denial Management
  • Microsoft Office
  • EMR/EHR
  • People Management
  • Power Bi

Hobbies and Interests

  • Following Market indices
  • Exploring new places within India
  • Playing Sports like Cricket, Chess, Table tennis

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Mahankali Prabhau Raj
  • Date of Birth: 08/09/87
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Managar

Accordion Partners Pvt Ltd
09.2024 - Current

Assistant Manager

Optum Global Advantage
10.2020 - 09.2024

Subject Matter Expert

Optum Global Advantage
01.2017 - 09.2020

Senior Associate

Optum Global Advantage
01.2017 - 05.2017

Senior Billing Analyst

Phycare Services India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2017

Senior Compliance Analyst

Hinduja Global Solutions
12.2012 - 04.2014

B.Sc. - Computer science

Bhawans Vivekananda degree college

Intermediate - undefined

Narayana Junior College

Schooling - undefined

Siddhartha High school

Master of Business Administration -

M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Management (MSRIM)
Mahankali Bhargav Shekhar