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Panoramic Health
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Southeast Kidney Associates is hiring a Medical Assistant! Exciting opportunity to join a growing practice and make a difference in patient care!
Our Medical Assistant encompasses both administrative and clinical aspects of medical assisting. You will assist providers with exams and procedures, and performing diagnostic testing.
Annual Salary $37,440 - $41,000 (DOE) 401K, Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life
Responsibilities include:
- Greets patients and performs Check-in/Check-out procedures in an accurate and timely manner. Collects co-pays and outstanding patient balances, prints orders and educational materials for patients, schedules procedures, obtains insurance card and payment guarantor information, and checks insurance eligibility.
- Answers phone calls, schedules appointments, and maintains assigned clinical inboxes in athenaClinicals electronic medical record system. Demonstrates phone etiquette in accordance with Panoramic Health standards of behavior.
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to effectively determine response priority and level for patient telephone calls and patient portal messages
- Assist physicians as needed
- Collecting specimens and following CLIA regulations
- Assist with facilitating referrals to specialty care, imaging or laboratory studies as ordered by the physician
- Coordinates with others to make sure patient is appropriately set up for any required lab studies or imaging
- Prepares for patient office visits and prepare lab work in patient charts.
- Exercises sound judgment when dealing with challenging and stressful situations.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as required, assigned, or requested.
Qualifications:
- 1 Year of Experience as a Medical Assistant
- Current CPR certification preferred.
- Broad understanding of clinical operations and physician office practice.
- Nephrology medical office or dialysis experience highly preferred.
- Experience with other secure clinical communication and billing applications such as PMD soft.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of HIPAA and other patient privacy laws.
- Ability to perform basic patient data entry into athenaClinicals electronic health record and use Microsoft Office suite.
- Comply with all HIPAA, OSHA, Compliance, and IT standards and policies.
The Company is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment which is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation because of age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. The company is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy in regard to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay, and other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment
Salary : $37 - $41