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Yolanda Quijano

San Antonio

Summary

I am eager and hands-on ready to join a team with room for personal and professional growth. Dedicated and driven Medical Assistant with 20 years of experience in delivering direct patient care and medical administrative support.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Certified Medical Assistant

Alamo Urology Associates
01.2025 - Current
  • Sanitized, restocked, and organized exam rooms and medical equipment.
  • Directed patients to exam rooms, fielded questions, and prepared for physician examinations.
  • Called and escribe pharmacies to submit prescriptions and refills.
  • Provided compassionate care for patients, addressing their concerns and ensuring a positive experience.
  • Submit PA's, and follow up, if needed appeals.
  • Prepare and assist with in-office procedures such as Cystoscopy with and without stent removal, vasectomies, prostate biopsies.
  • Catheter/foley changes, suprapublic catheter changes, pre op.
  • Injections.

Patient care associate/Technician

University Hospital
04.2020 - 03.2024
  • Ensure patient safety for altered mental status or suicidal, vitals, data entry, assisting with daily activities such as bathing, feeding, walking, turning x 2hours, etc., assisting nurse with any procedures or duties needed throughout the shift. Floor tech obtaining vitals, charting, updating nurse or physician of any abnormal findings.

GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOC. OF SA
03.2018 - 03.2020
  • Bring patients to the room, obtain, and confirm Information, take vitals, assist during procedures, draw blood, give injections, perform ECG, make appointments, call patients with lab or imaging results. Provide patient education, answer phones, translate for non-Spanish speaking providers.

TEXAS ONCOLOGY
03.2016 - 03.2018
  • Vital signs, giving injections, ECG, assisting during Bone Marrow Biopsies, calling patients, some billing (making sure all charts have DX codes and EM codes), prepare patient education binders for new chemotherapy treatments, check patients in and out of the office, making appointments, travel to Floresville, handle a clinic with a high volume of patients daily. Ensured the best quality of care for our ACNA clinic with 6 mid-level providers.

UTC Rehab and Major Medical
01.2014 - 03.2016
  • Back Office: Take patients to treat room, prepare instruments for the Doctor, vital signs, verify and reconcile patient data in EMR chart, assist providers during procedures, perform ekg and lab draws for physical and pre-op patients, administer injections, escalate patient abnormalities to providers. Front Office: answer phones, make appointments, make reminder calls, check patients in and out of office, verify insurances, call in prescriptions, obtain referrals for major medical, LOP, and workers comp. patients, obtain prior authorizations for needed medications, always greet patients with a friendly smile ensuring they feel safe and welcome.

Referral Coordinator

Alamo Osteopathic Physician and Surgeons
08.2008 - 02.2014
  • Scheduling patient appointments, procedures in house or out, surgeries and obtaining authorizations for all codes required. Medical Records obtaining a and requesting records in a timely manner, ensuring all results were charted in patient file and given to provider, abnormal results escalated to provider on call if ordering was not available. Task performance coordinator, ensuring everyone was using their time appropriately, employees had coverage for breaks, chart reviews at the end of the day to ensure patient care was delivered to the best of our ability, ensure preventive care was up to date. Back up Medical Assistant, obtaining new patient H&P or for hospital admissions, Lab draws, Injections, pre op ekgs, Pro2k treatments, neurometer studies, assist in gynecology exams, appropriate labeling of specimens and ensuring all specimens were sent out, controls on in house machines and logging all data. Back up Receptionist, checking in patients in a timely fashion, having patient verify all patient data on file, insurance verifications, explaining benefits to patient if needed. Entering ICD9 codes with correct CPT codes to ensure insurance approval, collecting copay and deductibles Checking patients out for end of visit or ensureing they were placed on a recall list if apt was refused, triaging incoming calls and forwarding to appropriate personnel.

Adolfo Garcia Nephrology
05.2005 - 07.2008
  • After completion of externship , hired. Responsibilities were scheduling, requesting referral, obtaining insurance info prior to visit for insurance verification, ordering labs and radiology and obtain results for follow up appointments, vitals, maintaining patient flow. Checking patients out clinic.

Education

Associate of Science - Pre Nursing

St. Philip's College
San Antonio, TX
05-2027

Skills

  • HIPAA compliance
  • Medical terminology
  • Specimens collection and processing
  • Patient scheduling
  • Patient care
  • Clinical documentation
  • Medication administration
  • Electronic health records
  • Vital sign monitoring

Languages

Spanish
Professional Working
English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Certified Medical Assistant

Alamo Urology Associates
01.2025 - Current

Patient care associate/Technician

University Hospital
04.2020 - 03.2024

GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOC. OF SA
03.2018 - 03.2020

TEXAS ONCOLOGY
03.2016 - 03.2018

UTC Rehab and Major Medical
01.2014 - 03.2016

Referral Coordinator

Alamo Osteopathic Physician and Surgeons
08.2008 - 02.2014

Adolfo Garcia Nephrology
05.2005 - 07.2008

Associate of Science - Pre Nursing

St. Philip's College

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