MEDICAL ASSISTANT - PHYSICIAN OFFICE, PRIMARY CARE

divh2Medical Assistant - Physician Office, Primary Care/h2pThe Medical Assistant performs basic direct patient care activities, such as lab tests, treatments, and medication/immunization administration. These are performed under the direction of the Nurse and/or the physician in preparation for the patients examination and treatment. The incumbent carries out clerical activities, quality control activities, performance improvement initiatives, etc. in support of the physician practice as assigned. This position also serves as a resource for the clerical/clinical staff in the practice./ppEssential Job Functions include delivering direct and indirect patient care, assisting to collect patient healthcare data, completing patient care treatments and testing, complying with completeness, accuracy and timeliness of documentation, preparing patients for examinations, treatments, and procedures, communicating pertinent information of actual or potential problems to the physician or nurse, performing clerical functions in support of patient care and office functions, answering telephone calls, taking accurate messages and relaying them to the appropriate staff, obtaining and verifying accurate patient demographic and insurance information entering it into the billing system, accurately entering codes, based on diagnosis given, and entering codes and charges into billing system, completing forms and letters necessary for continued patient care, providing for patient safety in compliance with hospital and physician practice policies, labeling all patient specimens with identifiers per policy, adhering to infection control process, including standard precautions, to reduce the risk of acquiring or transmitting infections, assisting in continuous survey readiness or inspections and surveys, performing all quality control, monitoring functions and reports out of range information immediately to supervisor, consistently practicing National Patient Safety Goals, knowledge of and/or ability to schedule surgery, procedures, and testing for patients, exit counseling which includes education, scheduling of testing and providing patients with necessary information, preparing charts for clinic sessions and obtaining vital signs and weight, performing control studies and completes logbooks according to policy, performing phlebotomy procedures, reading the test results, and documenting accordingly, preparing the exam rooms and stocks supplies daily, providing pre- and post-examination education and counseling, and other duties as assigned./ppCompetency and Experience includes a high school diploma, GED or next level of higher education, strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice, strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience./p/div