Medical Assistant/Care Coordinator

Seeking a Full Time Medical Assistant/Care Coordinator in BCHP's Pediatric office in Hopewell Junction, NY. Pay rate $52/hr-$28/hr, negotiable depending on level of experience and certification. This will be a dual role made up of both MA and Care Coordinator taks.

Benefits:

• 401K
• 401k Matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental / Vision
• Paid Time off
• Life Insurance

Job Description:

Essential Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

• Create a patient-centered environment
• Prepare rooms for the day
• Escort patients to room; prepare patients for examinations
• Record height/weight (head circ if age appropriate) and blood pressure for well visit; chart
• Drawing blood and assisting nurses in the office
• Ask parent or patient about chief complaint and document
• Perform vision and hearing screening as necessary and document in chart according to standing protocols
• Gather proper immunizations at well visits, document in chart, and gain consent from parents
• Perform strep tests and flu test swabs, record results in the chart, and charge for the procedures
• Perform fingerstick lead, hemoglobin, and cholesterol tests according to standing protocols, document results in chart, and bill for procedure
• Perform venipuncture when requested by providers
• Assist doctors as needed with sick visits, as well as well-child visits
• Clean and restock rooms and equipment
• Relay messages as may be required by physicians
• Prepare for urine culture and analysis
• Prepare for strep tests and all other laboratory tests
• Assist doctor and nurses with procedures
• Prepare instruments for sterilization
• Record overnight culture results in chart
• Check and chart temps in fridge and incubator
• Record culture results in chart
• Track lab results
• Operate according to standard orders and standing protocols
• Provide care in a patient-centered manner
• Attend medical home meetings
• Participate in pre-visit planning
• Demonstrate excellence in both internal and external customer service
• Use EHR to track all specialists referrals, ensuring patients have scheduled appointments (assisting the patients with scheduling the appointments as needed), patients are seen by the specialist, and that the consultation notes from specialists are received and sent to the primary care provider within the predefined time frame, as noted in policy, and notating all efforts made in the EHR
• Use EHR to track all lab tests, ensuring patients go for their lab tests, and that the lab results are received and sent to the primary care provider within the predefined time frame, as noted in policy, and notating all efforts made in the EHR
• Use EHR to track all imaging tests, ensuring patients have scheduled appointments (assisting the patients with scheduling the appointments as needed), patients are seen for their tests, and that the imaging results received and sent to the primary care provider within the predefined time frame, as noted in policy, and notating all efforts made in the EHR
• Proactively contacting patients who have unplanned ED visits or hospital admissions
• Run population health reports as instructed by supervisor and/or BCHP Quality Dept
• Run care management reports as instructed by supervisor and/or BCHP Quality Dept
• Assist patients in making appointments with specialists
• Assist patients in issues with school placement
• Assist patients in issues with social service needs such as food stamps, Medicaid, and WIC
• Assist providers in making contact with specialists to get updates about patients and care plans
• Assist providers in following up with patients to get updates in between regular office visits
• Track PCMH compliance by regularly running reports to see performance on elements required for PCMH recognition
• Assist office manager and lead doctor in PCMH transformation by giving input for necessary workflow changes and other changes to make PCMH recognition a reality
• Be a supporter of PCMH transformation
• Develop office workflow suggestions that further the efforts towards team based care
• Work with Quality Department on projects related to continuous quality improvement
• Be a subject matter expert on PCMH within the office
• Provide care in a patient-centered manner
• Attend medical home meetings
• Other duties as assigned

BCHP will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law