Medical Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Overview

We welcome warm, experienced, independent, forward-out of the box thinking and reliable medical professionals. Our goal is to provide care of integrity with competence, warmth, and professional patient centered care, with positive staff and referent interactions and experiences daily.

Responsibilities

The Medical Assistant coordinates both direct and indirect patient care job functions in the clinic. It is important that you have a strong work history of independently working in the front and back office successfully. Responsibilities include both front and back-office duties.

Front Office:

• Receptionist, answer phones and patient registration
• Experience understanding the importance in attention to billing details highly desired as it relates to billing procedures, and charge posting
• Maintaining appointment and clinic schedules
• Scheduling surgeries/procedures
• Obtaining appropriate insurance verification, authorizations, and referrals
• Providing appropriate patient instructions per provider orders.
• Warm calls to patients, confirming patient appointment
• Electronically enter blood & specimen orders through lab interface using EHR (Kareo)
• Maintaining faxes and lab orders
• Collect copays

Back Office:

• Room patients
• Prepare treatment room and sanitize after each patient visit.
• Obtain and chart vitals
• Assist providers with procedures as needed
• Perform spirometry, pulse oximetry and other medical services appropriate to medical assistant duties
• Administer office medications
• Triage
• Stock & maintain sanitized exam rooms
• Communicate test results to providers

Completion of an MA training program and certification (Required)

Bilingual, English/Spanish (Required)

Basic Life Support (BLS Required)

Fingerprint Clearance Card - Must have a current fingerprint clearance card or have the ability to obtain within 1-2 weeks of being offered the position

EMR systems: 3 years (Preferred)

Vital signs: 3 years (Preferred)

Front/Back Office: 3 years (Preferred)