EMILY LEWIS

EMILY LEWIS

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MANAGER

Austin, TX, United States

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About

Healthcare operations leader with 20+ years of experience spanning contact center management, patient and member services, workforce planning, scheduling, billing support, insurance coordination, reporting, and team leadership. Proven success leading teams of 30+ employees, improving service performance, resolving complex operational issues, developing dashboards and SOPs, and implementing new systems and workflows. Advanced Excel user who builds strong cross-functional partnerships and keeps high-volume healthcare operations accurate, efficient, and customer focused.

Experience

Harbor Health

CONTACT CENTER OPERATIONS MANAGER

Jan 2023 – Jun 2026

• Led daily operations and workforce coverage for 30+ representatives in a high-volume healthcare environment, managing productivity, service levels, staffing, workload, and competing priorities. • Developed Excel dashboards, tracking tools, and reports to analyze service levels, workload, scheduling, capacity, productivity, and operational trends. • Improved service levels from 63% to 88%, reduced average handle time from 6:30 to 5:00, and reduced average wait time from 3:30 to 0:25 through performance monitoring and workflow improvements. • Supported benefits administration, open enrollment, member education, insurance operations, and pharmacy benefit manager coordination for a primary care organization launching a health plan. • Partnered with leadership, IT, and engineering to test, document, troubleshoot, and resolve defects in phone systems, call routing, self-scheduling technology, and AI-supported tools. • Created process documentation and training materials; trained employees on new systems, workflows, scheduling procedures, and customer service expectations.

ExcelDashboardsAI-supported tools

Harbor Health

PRIMARY CARE NETWORK TEAM MANAGER

Jan 2016 – Jan 2023

• Managed a 33-person team of nurses, medical assistants, and customer service representatives supporting primary and express care operations seven days per week. • Directed staffing, workload, scheduling, training, special projects, and service coverage; coordinated with managers across multiple locations to resolve operational issues. • Produced daily, weekly, and monthly reporting on call volume, productivity, workload, staffing, and performance using Excel formulas, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, and tracking tools. • Developed SOPs and standardized workflows to improve consistency, accuracy, efficiency, and service performance; communicated priorities through team huddles and meetings. • Supported hiring, onboarding, system access, training, and employee development and used Genesys to support high-volume customer service operations.

ExcelVLOOKUPsGenesysSmartsheetDashboards

Ascension Medical

Austin Regional Clinic

SURGERY COORDINATOR AND BILLING LEAD

Jan 2011 – Jan 2016

• Coordinated surgical schedules, billing-related activities, and patient access needs among physicians, patients, clinical staff, payers, and external providers. • Obtained and verified insurance authorizations and referrals; supported claims-related processes, billing issue resolution, denial management, appeals, and peer-to-peer reviews. • Used CPT and ICD-10 information to support billing, authorization, reimbursement documentation, and operational accuracy. • Reviewed patient, insurance, scheduling, and billing documentation; identified information gaps and coordinated corrections to support accurate and timely processing. • Drove complex billing, authorization, and insurance issues through resolution by coordinating across patients, providers, clinical teams, and payer organizations.

CPTICD-10BillingReferralsAuthorizations

Austin Regional Clinic

Paul T. Fass, M.D.

MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST AND MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Jan 2006 – Jan 2011

• Supported high-volume patient scheduling, telephone communication, record maintenance, payment-related front-office activity, and daily medical operations. • Coordinated communication among patients, providers, clinical staff, and office personnel while safeguarding confidential information.

SchedulingCommunicationRecord Maintenance

Paul T. Fass, M.D.

Education

Lanier High School

Lanier High School

High School diploma · high school

2002 – 2006

Skills

process optimizationhealthcare adminteam managementcustomer supportSaaS platform adminSpreadsheet DevelopmentData AnalysisDashboards