Medical Assistant

Objective Summary

Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing and coding for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by a physician.

Essential Functions

• Interview patients to obtain current condition/complaint, measure vital signs, weight, and height
• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician or provider
• Record patients' medical history, social history, family history, surgical history, and obtain outside medical records
• Performs related work as required for several specialty doctors including but not limited to Primary Care, Psychiatry, Behavioral Health, GI, Cardiology, Physiatry, Orthopedics, Geriatrics
• Collect blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing and or transport
• Perform waived tests
• Perform quality controls for waived test kits
• Manage message in-box
• Make outbound calls to patients per physician or provider instructions
• Enter orders and referrals into the EMR per the physician or provider instructions
• Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, and physician or provider's instructions to patients
• Help physician or provider during procedures, sterile set-up
• Proper instrument handling and cleaning
• Performing such tasks as, EKG, venipuncture, injections, ear lavage, nebulizer treatments, pulmonary function tests, and removing sutures as directed by the physician or provider
• Maintain state vaccine records via the Washington Immunization Information System
• Prepare prescription refills for electronic signature by the physician or provider
• Prepare paper documents for provider signature
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies
• Clean and stock exam rooms, venipuncture room, and lab
• Occupational Health Tasks as assigned
• Perform appropriate hand hygiene
• Attends required meetings and participates in committees as requested
• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality; HIPAA
• Participates in professional development activities and maintains professional affiliations
• Other duties as assigned

Required Education

High School Diploma AND graduated from an accredited Medical Assistant program

Preferred Education

As above

Required Experience

Successful completion of a Medical Assisting externship

Preferred Experience

One year of on-the-job experience

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

MA-certification or MA-registration active with the State of Washington

Skills

• Knowledge of the English language including meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar
• Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases and deformities

Work Environment

Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment. Work may be stressful at times. Interaction with others is constant and interruptive.

Physical Demands

Requires full range of body motion including lifting, bending, stooping, stretching, sitting, kneeling, and handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Involves standing and walking. Requires normal visual acuity and hearing. Requires exposure to bodily fluids. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, calculator, telephone, copier and such other office equipment as necessary.

Benefits

Snoqualmie Valley Hospital offers you one medical plan with multiple in-network tiers with Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, Eastside Health, and First Choice/First Health providers/network.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Pharmacy
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Life and AD&D
• Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Travel Assistance & ID Theft Protection
• Voluntary Benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

Eligibility Requirements - Employees regularly scheduled at least 20 hours per week. Employee Dependents - Your legal spouse or domestic partner, Dependent children until age 26. Waiting Period - 1st of the month following your date of hire.

Compensation: $25.04-$36.47

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