Meet the team at Kings Point Foot & Ankle
Joanna Yerro – Personal assistant to Dr. Benjamin Tehrani
Joanna Yerro is a personal virtual assistant to Dr. Tehrani. Even though she currently resides in the Philippines, she plays a crucial role in organizing Dr. Tehrani’s work.
Joanna is a licensed nurse and has been working with Kings Point Foot & Ankle for more than two years now. Among the many responsibilities Joanna has, overseeing patients’ eligibility and benefits, and authorization requests are her primary duties, and she executes them perfectly.
In her out-of-office time, she enjoys playing with her son, watching TV shows, and listening to music. Working with Dr. Tehrani has helped her realize that distance doesn’t matter if you are passionate about what you do. She believes that success always comes no matter how rough are the roads that lead to it. Joanna is grateful to be part of the growing Kings Point Foot & Ankle family, and looks forward to many more years together.
Lou De Padua – Authorization Specialist
Lou is our authorization specialist. She takes charge of monitoring and overseeing all aspects of the prior authorization process. She is completing and identifying accurately prior and retro authorization requests to the payors. Other duties include verifying insurance eligibility, and benefits.
She has been working in the healthcare industry for 7 years and her favorite part is getting to know patients and helping them to get good and long-term solutions to their healthcare concerns.
She can assimilate quickly in transitions, even switching roles as needed to maintain productivity.
Rio
Rio is our Personal Injury coordinator and scheduler. He handles every day tasks such as appointment scheduling as well as detail-oriented tasks which require constant communicating with the law offices by phone and email. He prides himself on keeping clients and patients happy with his exceptional care!
Krista
Krista is an experienced and detail-oriented medical billing specialist with 7 years of experience in managing medical insurance claims, billing data, and coding diagnoses. She is highly skilled in analyzing and validating patient information and serves as the initial point of contact for inquiries regarding insurance claims and account statements. She is knowledgeable about preparing invoices, processing payments and pursuing past-due balances. Krista also works with collections, claims review, and data analysis. Krista's hands-on management is second to none and her dedication to her work is unsurpassed.
Heidi
Bio Coming Soon!