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Kimberly Upchurch

Medical Assistant

Summary of Experienced Back & Front Office Medical Assistant

qualifications seeking a long term position. Experienced with EMR.

Highly adept at venipuncture, delivering

injections, and minor surgical preparations.

Excellent administration and communication skills.

Professional Wellness Oncology and Hematology - West Hills, CA

experience June 2011-Nov 2012

High Volume Practice requiring excellent

communication skills with discretion and empathy

towards patients with cancer or blood diseases.

Back Office duties include: Recording patient's

history, injections, medications, chemo treatments,

transfusions, etc. in EMR. Venipuncture or finger

sticks on every patient. Deliver injections.

Access/flush ports. Change port dressings. Remove

Picc lines. Assist Chemo Nurses with checking IV

bags and keeping patients comfortable during

treatments. Communicate lab results with doctors

and patients; perform on site CBC and Pro-time

counts; order labs to be done at hospital. Set up

and assist doctors with Bone Marrow Biopsies and

send out specimens with orders to labs. Draw blood

for BRCA testing and send out with orders to labs.

Chaperon doctors during breast exams.

Front Office duties include: Coordinate blood

transfusions, radiology appointments, port

placements, and scans for patients. Verify

insurance, collect co-payments. Answer multi-line

phones; obtain patients full medical histories;

communicate orders of medications and treatments

with on site pharmacy, call in prescriptions to

outside pharmacies; appointment scheduling and

daily appointment reminder calls.

Dr. Hoppenfeld Family Practice - Westlake Village,

CA

May 2010-June 2011

Back Office duties included: Rooming patients

monitor and record vitals, charting patient's

history and chief complaint, explaining procedures

to patients, assist Dr. with pap smears, sutures,

and biopsies. Delivering injections, venipuncture,

ordering labs, EKGs, urinalysis, pregnancy testing,

cleaning, sterilization of instruments with

autoclave.

Front Office duties included: Appointment

scheduling, calling in prescriptions, filing,

communicating lab results to patients, answering

multi-line phones, writing up authorizations with

CPT & ICD-9 coding, communicating with HMO medical

groups, hospitals, and insurance companies, supply

ordering.

Affiliates in Medical Specialties, Inc. - West

Hills, CA Apr 2010

Externship

Served as back office medical assistant for

multi-practice group, supporting Family Practice,

ENT, Internal Medicine, and Rheumatology

specialists.

Duties included: Rooming patients, monitor and

record vitals, charting patient's history and chief

complaint, EKG, urinalysis, pregnancy testing,

peak flow, delivering injections, venipuncture,

assisting with biopsies,

assist with allergy testing, rapid strep testing,

ear lavage, explaining procedures to patients,

setting up surgical and treatment areas.

Dr. Cai Acupuncture - Tarzana, CA

Mar 2010

Externship

Front Office

Duties included: Answering phones, filing, rooming

patients, collecting co-payments, data entry,

insurance verification, cleaning and stocking

rooms, appointment reminder calls to patients.

Education Everest College, Reseda, CA

2009-2010 Valedictorian of Class

Medical Assistant Certificate

Desert Sands High School, Palmdale, CA

Graduated 2004 with 3.6 GPA

Received Diploma

References Excellent References Available Upon Request

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