Medical Assistant

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• Rooms patients and measures vital signs, such as pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, weight, and height, and records information in patients' electronic charts.
• Prepares treatment rooms for examination of patients.
• Drapes patients with covering and positions instruments and equipment. Cleans and sterilizes instruments.
• Hands instruments and materials to doctor as directed. Assists providers with procedures and treatments.
• Cleans rooms and maintains supplies, including stocking new supplies and disposing of expired or damaged supplies.
• Responds to patient telephone inquiries by evaluating and responding to the patient's problems and questions or follow-up appointment needs.
• Participates in department or unit quality improvement activities.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
• Faxes and retrieves patient records for the provider for expediting patient care.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and protects operations by keeping information confidential and following HIPAA guidelines.
• Provides coverage to other medical assistants as requested.
• Prepares and updates electronic medical records for patient visits with necessary information as needed. Transcribes and mails letters per provider request and documents necessary information accurately in EMR system.
• Makes reminder appointment calls for each provider schedule.

Qualifications and Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Medical Practice Software, Windows, and Microsoft Office.
• Must have experience with electronic medical record systems (EHR).

Required Education and Experience

• Successful completion of an accredited educational program in medical assisting and successfully passing CCMA exam

Preferred Education and Experience

• Associates degree in medical assisting from an accredited educational program and successfully passing CCMA exam; one year related experience.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Active Registered Medical Assistant Certification preferred but not required.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional office environment.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Hours may be altered at the discretion of management, based upon the needs of the business.

Travel

No travel is expected for this position.