Medical Office Assistant

Job Summary

To assist physicians and other primary health care providers with clerical, financial and other general medical office operations in ambulatory practice.

Responsibilities

• Performs administrative duties such as answering telephones, greeting patients, pulling, updating and filing patient medical records, verifying patient demographic and insurance information, scheduling appointments, and performing billing and bookkeeping.
• Checks-in patients, assists with patient histories, checks accuracy of patient information, prepares charts, may be called upon to chaperone or assist provider during examinations and other patient care activities, performs billing and other general medical office procedures in accordance with established protocols of a particular clinic.
• Educates and advises patients on specified medical issues within established guidelines.
• Schedules, codes and bills medical procedures and/or ambulatory surgical procedures.
• Arranges examining room equipment; cleans rooms and escorts patient to and from assigned room in clinic.
• Disposes contaminated supplies; maintains stocks of medical supplies and medications as appropriate to the clinic.
• Practices safety, environmental, and infection control methods. Adheres to HIPPA, OSHA, infection control, and medical records compliance regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Education & Experience: High School Diploma/GED required and completion of a formal medical office assistant or equivalent training program, such as but not limited to: Certified Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, or Licensed Practical Nurse with no clinic experience or, High School Diploma/GED required and two (2) years experience in a healthcare setting.
• Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required: N/A

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 75 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, frequent kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, constant reaching, occasional sitting, constant standing, occasional twisting, and constant walking.