Lorna Vargas - RHIT eligible
Chino Hills, CA **870
562-***-**** *******@*****.***
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Seasoned administrative assistant with over twenty years of experience looking to utilize my background in data entry and departmental organization as well as my education in health information in the HIM field.
WORK EXPERIENCE
PIH Health Whittier
Student Intern February ’22 to May ‘22
Assisting with document bar coding, looking up patient information in ChartMaxx to complete document information, filling out expiration notices for organ donor organization, counting and scanning of patient records.
Quality control in processing patient documentation. Scanning for missing documents to ensure correct order and completeness. Requesting of documents and signatures from physicians.
ROI paperwork processing: ensuring all documentation and signatures of authorization were present. Printing out of requested information for remittance.
Patient case coding: CPT for outpatient and ICD-10-PCS for inpatient as well as ICD-10-CM for both.
Lucky Aire, Inc.
Office Assistant April ’16 to December ‘20
Customer service: answer phones, scheduling, and follow up.
Dispatching: in charge or service technician’s daily schedule. Dispatching and coordinating with customers. Keeping track of maintenance work to be done monthly. Enter work orders into database and distribute via email.
Stocking: maintaining inventory, purchase order initiation and entry, maintaining and updating inventory database.
A/P – posting bills and organizing for prompt payment. Run weekly payroll tax report and checks for payment of federal and state taxes online. Compile weekly tax information and maintain payroll tax binder.
A/R – receiving payments and depositing online. Creating deposit report and maintain deposit history. Creating and mailing monthly account statements. Collection calls and emails as necessary. Filing of mechanics liens.
Payroll – running weekly tracking reports for all technicians, entering times in payroll software for processing.
Other – filing (updating and creating new), sorting and opening incoming mail, running weekly sales and profit reports for management, entering new customer information and updating existing information, updating management’s online calendar, following up on proposed work with customers, creating and updating office forms, online research as needed for ordering parts as well as any needed information dealing with payroll and customers.
Child Alliance-Family Counseling and Support Services
Teaching & Demonstration Worker/Parenting Class Facilitator November ’14 to March‘16
T&D worker- Support In-Home Outreach Counselors by conducting weekly home visits and providing clients with necessary information, connecting and providing transportation to resources, demonstrating life skills such as personal budgeting and proper cleaning standards as well as addressing health and safety issues within the home, drafting and submitting auxiliary funds requests to DCFS. Generate billing invoices as an independent contractor.
Parenting Class Facilitator-conduct various weekly classes (2 hour sessions) on site and at LAUSD schools using the “Make Parenting a Pleasure” curriculum. Class preparation including copying/collating topic packets, drawing/writing visual aids, setting up AV equipment for class videos, preparing resource listings for distribution, demonstration of topics using props and creating a pleasant and open environment to for parents to learn.
Long Beach Unified School District
Bilingual Intermediate Office Assistant March ’14 to March‘15
Work performed on an on-call basis to various district locations. Tasks varied per location assigned including answering phones, contacting parents, filing, drafting and translating correspondence, organization, data entry, photo copying, faxing, and other miscellaneous duties. One year cap for all intermediate employees.
Custom Building Products
Marketing Clerk July ’99 to March ‘07
Contact for company’s representatives nationwide, responsible for creating and maintaining marketing
files, purchase order initiation and entry, fulfilling literature/sample orders, FedEx and UPS shipping
and mailing of promotional/information mailers, ordering supplies and merchandising materials,
creating/running weekly reports, and maintaining representative’s records, mail receipt and distribution,
assist with other projects as necessary.
EDUCATION
Cypress College, Cypress, CA. Associate in Science: Health Information Technology, Spring 2022
California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. Bachelor of Arts: Liberal Studies, Spring 2008
South Gate High School, South Gate, CA. Attained High School Diploma with honors, 1993.
SKILLS
Coding: ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, Statistics, Data Analytics, HIPAA
LANGUAGES
Proficient in oral and written Spanish as well as English
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, ChartMaxx, Total Office Manager (payroll, invoicing, invoice posting, customer and product data base), Database III, AS400 system and POS (Aloha & Aldelo), 50WPM typing
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*Available upon request