What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Desai Medical Group & Behavioral Health?
The Medical Assistant I provides administrative and clinical support in mental health or behavioral health settings. This role involves assisting healthcare providers in delivering patient care, managing records, and ensuring a supportive environment for patients.
Duties/Responsibilities:
The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time with reasonable accommodation.
- Provide back-up support for the medical assistant team, which includes all functions of a medical assistant.
- Assist with intake process, including collecting patient histories, conducting assessments and documenting vital signs and injections.
- Administer standardized mental health screening tools (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7) under the supervision of providers to assess mood, anxiety, and other behavioral health concerns.
- Document and track behavioral health referrals, ensuring timely follow-up and coordination with behavioral health professionals.
- Assist patients in completing mental health intake questionnaires, supporting the behavioral health assessment process.
- Assist in monitoring patients undergoing behavioral health treatments, tracking progress and assisting with follow-up appointments as needed.
- Manage scheduling, maintain patient records, and handle billing and insurance processing.
- Assist as needed including medication refill requests, specialty and procedure referrals, pre and post clinic chart review.
- Review charts, lab test results, and encounter forms for completeness and to assess follow-up as needed.
- Work with Manager to oversee dispensary logs and storage to maintain quality assurance.
- Coordinate the inventory, ordering and supply stock maintenance of medical supplies.
- Provide sick/vacation leave backup for other Behavioral Health Coordinators.
- Maintain electronics health records and ensuring accuracy in documentation
- Assists with daily and monthly quality assurance reviews including emergency kit check off.
Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
Salary : $18 - $20