Amy Beth Baron

2010 - Current

Baron Medical Record Reviews

Owner/Principal/Registered Nurse Medical Record Reviewer

Providing Plaintiff litigation support services to medical malpractice, personal injury, nursing home and workers compensation attorneys. Services help 1) attorneys leverage their client's medical expenses, care, future anticipated treatment expenses and disabilit rating, 2) achieve faster, higher settlements, 3) deliver a more effective and professional medical section in their settlement brochure, and 4) translate medical records including hospital reports, nursing and physical notes, diagnostic testing results, etc... Services include: medical record reviews, sort, organize and review medical information specific to their client's needs, creation of chronological timelines stemming from date of incident/injury thru acute and post acute course of treatment up until either return to work or declaration of maximum medical improvement status and preparation of reports specific to your needs (bare-boned or comprehensive).

2010 - Current

Baron Law & Mediation, LLP

Founder/Attorney/Mediator

Cost effective legal problem solving. Providing our client with choices to resolve their problems. Areas of practice: divorce/family law, elder/special needs law, estate/small business planning. Process choices: Mediation, Collaboratative law, Litigation, Limited Assistance representation, advice/consultation and certified divorce financial analyst services.

2002 - 2009

Independent workers compensation case management firms

Registered Nurse Field Case Manager/Certified Nurse Life Care Planner

Registered Nurse field based medical case manager: Clients included insurance companies directly, self insured companies and 3rd party administrators. Work consisted of on site and telephonic services to and for individuals injured on the job. Injuries ranged from minor to catastrophic. Review of medical records, medical research, location of experts in the field, assuring safe return to the work place and excellent and reasonable medical treatment deliverables. Nurse Life Care Planner: Clients consisted of insurance companies, medical mal-practice and personal injury attorneys. Work consisted of medical record reviews, issue identification, time line chronologies, medical research, healthcare resource investigation, cost projections for medical expenses. In both roles, I had telephonic and face to face interaction with individuals who sustained injuries ranging from minor work place incidents to catastrophic events, physicians, specialists, other healthcare personnel (social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, etc...), attorneys, and insurance claims adjusters.

2007 - 2007

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Northeastern University School of Pharmacy

Adjunct Professor

Oversight of the pharmacy intern program at the Office of the ATtorney General's Medicaid Fraud Division.

2005 - 2007

Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General - Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Nurse/Financial Investigator

As a Nurse and Financial Investigator for the Medicaid Control Unit, I was involved in all aspects of case investigation, interviewing of witnesses, document review, timeline compilations, and standard of care and practice guideline review. Cases involved healthcare provider fraud (services not rendered, over charges, drug diversion, inadequate care etc.. ), along with cases alleging patient abuse, neglect and mistreatment.

1994 - 2001

Community Healthcare Agencies

Registered Community Healthcare Nurse and Private Services Supervisor

Registered Nurse in the home health care industry: Managed case load of patients with a variety of diagnoses. Patient and family eduation, assessment, monitoring, drug administration. Communication with other healthcare providers, treating physicians, family members, community resources etc.. Private Services Supervisor: Director of private pay division of community home health care agency. Supervision of home health care aids. Established appropriate and specific plans of care for the particular patients in need.

1992 - 1994

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Registered Nurse: Orthopedics, Multiple Trauma, Plastic Surgery

Registered Nurse in an acute care hospital. Patient case load consisted of patients who had orthopedic, multiple trauma injuries or who had plastic surgery procedures. All aspects of nursing care were provided.

1997 - 2000

Massachusetts School of Law at Andover

J.D. | Law - Litigation

1988 - 1992

Simmons College

B.S. | Nursing