Medical Administrative Assistant
Resume:
Rossana Martinez
Midlothian,IL **445
***********@*****.***
Objective Medical Assistant/Clinical Assistant/Orthopedic
Position requiring innovative challenging employment that will utilize my education and professional skills and offer advancement opportunity.
Professional Experience Clinical /Administrative Assistant-Surgery Scheduler
Hinsdale Orthopaedics, Hinsdale,IL
• Work with a variety of orthopedic surgeons of different specialty/Spine Surgeon
• Responsible for spine surgeon administrative and clinical duties patient registration and assists in scheduling of appointments for new/established patients.
• Maintain an orderly file on physician credentials and CME credits
• Prepare physician on call schedules and coordinate physician schedule changes.
• Arrange charts for legal depositions, ensuring that all patient records are available prior to the deposition.
• Secure charts related to diagnostic tests, physical/occupational therapy reports, etc. and discuss issues with physician.
• Complete chart notes, as appropriate.
• Complete Attending Physician statements, handicap parking permits, jury duty requests, PE excuse notes, disability forms
• Obtain precertification and benefit information prior to procedures
• Coordinate referrals for ongoing services /needs physical therapy services and surgical procedures.Myelogram,Discogram
• Assist patients with ,vital signs, prep for procedures, obtain cultures if necessary, prep patient for appropriate examination, triaging for radiology studies
• Maintain and set up patient rooms
• Process Rx’s and dispenses samples as per physician order. Instructs/educates patients regarding medication side effects.
• Prepares injectable medication and equipment needed for aspirations, wound care, fracture reductions
• Evaluate need for wound care and ensure adequate provision of care and patient education
• Staple/ Suture/Pin removal
• Removal and application of cast
• Schedule surgical procedures Lumbar and Cervical –
Anterior Cervical Fusion, Posterior Lumbar Fusion Diskectomy,Laminectomy,Hardware Removal
• Fit pre-operative braces crutches, walkers, LSO brace
• Sterile and non-sterile dressing changes 7/2004 – 7/2011
Medical Assistant/Phlebotomist
Family Health &Wellness Center
Family Practice,Pediactric ObGyne., Chicago,IL
• Responsible for all office duties patient registration medical records/audits ,billing ,insurance coverage and handling multi-line phone
• Assist patients with , take vital signs, prep for procedures, obtain cultures if necessary, prep patient for appropriate examination
• birth control guidance’s/breastfeeding counseling
• Prenatal flow, childbirth, post-partum care
• Perform injections; intravenous, subcutaneous
• Perform out-patient blood draws, collecting specimens for laboratory test
• Handling UA, Dipsticks, Pregnancy test.
• Communicate laboratory results to patients
• Monitor inventory control and approve purchase of supplies 1999-2004
Education Cosmopolitan Prep H.S
Chicago,IL
High School Diploma 1997
Illinois School of Health Careers
June 1998
Chicago, IL
Medical Assistant Certificate Received
Bethany Hospital 06/1998-11/1999
Medical /Phlebotomist Assistant Chicago, IL
Externship-160 Hrs.
CPR/ADR Certified
Medical Software; Medical Manager, IDX, Pacs
Explorer, Netscape Communicator
ICD-9-CPT Coding
Windows, MS Word, Excel, Power Point
Knowledge of Medical Terminology, Surgical Coding
Fluent in English & Spanish
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