Medical Records Specialist Full Time Temporary

Full-Time Temporary Medical Records Position

Pulmonary Medicine Associates (PMA) has been treating patients in the greater Sacramento area for over 50 years and is a unique and exciting place to work. With specialties that include critical care, infectious disease, palliative care, pulmonology, pediatric pulmonology, sleep medicine, and travel medicine, we are a busy practice with over 80 providers and 2 outpatient clinic locations.

PMA currently has a full-time temporary medical records position available. PMA offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, PTO, and 401k with generous company match. PMA is an equal opportunity employer.

Duties include:

• Reviews and sends visit notes to referring providers via electronic submission
• Scans documents and uploads into EMR on a daily basis
• Contacts patients to remind them to complete outstanding orders
• Securely shreds paper PHI within 3 business days from upload into EMR
• Clears clinical in-box and interoffice mail daily
• Sorts, triages, and delivers incoming documents to correct users
• Processes, splits, reclassifies, labels and routes large documents according to PMA protocol
• Reviews and processes all requests for a patient's medical record following strict HIPAA guidelines
• Faxes patient information as requested using EMR Fax
• Mails patient records via encrypted CD or arranges for patient pick up
• Notifies supervisor of printed patient records for invoicing
• Ensures State Disability requests are invoiced and uploaded via secured portal
• Performs regular audits and reclassifies/re-labels documents in patient chart as necessary
• Processes all legal subpoenas for records and audit requests for risk adjustment by insurance companies
• Ensures payment is collected prior to the release of medical records when applicable
• Follows all PMA medical records policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High school graduation or GED.
• Minimum of one-year related work experience; experience in a medical environment required.
• Strong customer service skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the public.
• Strong computer skills. Previous experience using an EMR strongly preferred.
• Strong detail orientation.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information and knowledge of HIPAA and Privacy Laws.
• Ability to file and maintain patient records, files and other correspondence.
• Ability to work independently and juggle multiple priorities.

Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease & Critical Care Consultants Medical Group, Inc.