Job Description
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
- Experience with electronic medical record strongly preferred (Athena/ECW a plus)
- Experience with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Outlook preferred
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/LICENSURE/TECHNICAL/OTHER:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Education from approved medical assistant program or equivalent
- 1 to 3 years of experience as a Medical Assistant preferred
- Some travel may be required within the market
Responsibilities
- Answering telephones
- Greeting patients
- Updating and filing patients' medical records
- Filling out insurance forms
- Handling (scanning) correspondence, faxes, and other documents
- Scheduling appointments
- Billing and coding for procedures (performed by MA)
- Arranging for hospital admissions and laboratory services
- Handling billing and bookkeeping
- Maintaining all clinic equipment and logs (Environmental, Sterilization, Equipment Maintenance, Medication Samples, etc.)
- Arrange examining room instruments and equipment
- Taking medical histories, recording vital signs (including height & weight), and entering these into the electronic medical record
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients (As directed by a physician or physician assistant)
- Preparing patients for examination, and assisting physician with examinations and procedures
- Collecting and preparing laboratory specimens, and performing basic laboratory tests (Urinalysis, PSA & Testosterone, etc.)
- Preparing patients for, and performing digital image/studies (bladder scan, Uroflow, PTNS, etc.)