Medical Assistant Position in Phoenix- 27th Ave/ Indian School Rd - Primary Care/ Behavioral Health

Duties

• Provides ongoing services as a medical assistant to patients in need of medical services for the purpose of establishing and reaching appropriate treatment goals.
• Prepares patients for examinations, takes medical histories, assists the physician during the examination, explains medical procedures to patients.
• Collaborates with the behavioral health and other specialty care offices to coordinate appropriate client information.
• Follows up on the pharmacy, clients, staff, and all other parties' phone calls and coordinates a response based on the consultation with the medical staff.
• Answers phones, schedules appointments, greets patients, and may create correspondence.
• May assume any, or all, of the general clerical duties within the office.
• Follows up accordingly/promptly on clients' requests via phone/letter at the direction of medical practitioners.
• Coordinates with the involved parties on behalf of the client.
• Updates patient files, schedules medical tests, and arranges for hospital admissions.
• Follows up on missed medical appointments to appropriately re-engage the patients.
• Sets appropriate patient documentation, applications, forms that conform to agency guidelines, audit tools, best professional practices, and State licensing regulations.
• Completes client documentation within the established guidelines including but not limited to completion of progress notes on the date of service; completes medical intake paperwork and submits on date of service.

Qualifications

• NextGen Experience is a plus.
• Excellent compensation ($17-$21+/hour, depending on years of experience).
• Additional language differential pay available: Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Swahili, or ASL: $1/hour (approximately $2,080 annually).

Benefits

• Full benefits package including medical insurance (PPO and HDHP spending accounts), critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity, dental and orthodontia, vision, voluntary life/AD&D and short and long term disability insurance, identity theft, prepaid legal, pet insurance, PTO: 4 weeks + holidays (PTO accrued from 1st day of employment), 1 floating holiday, 401K, employee assistance program, GCU tuition discount for employees and dependents.