Clinical Concierge - Medical Assistant
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Summary
Serves as the first point of contact for patients and plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless, high-quality patient experience. This role combines administrative, clerical, and clinical responsibilities to enhance workflow efficiency, optimize patient care coordination, and provide direct clinical support. Collaborates with providers, clinical team, and administrative staff to facilitate care delivery while upholding a high standard of customer service.
Job description
Summary
Serves as the first point of contact for patients and plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless, high-quality patient experience. This role combines administrative, clerical, and clinical responsibilities to enhance workflow efficiency, optimize patient care coordination, and provide direct clinical support. Collaborates with providers, clinical team, and administrative staff to facilitate care delivery while upholding a high standard of customer service.
Job Duties
- Behaves in a professional and empathetic manner to build trust, comfort, understanding and relationships with consumers and the secondary guest(s).
- Coordinate and perform patient check-in/check-out, ensuring accurate registration and information collection.
- Verify insurance eligibility, collect payments (co-pays or self-pay fee), and process referrals.
- Schedule appointments while optimizing clinic workflow.
- Handle patient inquiries.
- Maintain electronic medical records (EMR), ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Maintaining all required logs includes but is not limited to quality control logs and stat cart checks.
- Measurement and collection of patient data including temperature, pulse, oxygenation saturation, respirations, blood pressure, height, weight, and in indicated pediatric patients, length, and head circumference.
- Ensure accurate documentation in the medical record.
- Assist providers with the collection of patient information including reason for visit, chief complaint, health history, allergies and current medications for provider review.
- Complete patient rooming process and implement standard operating procedures to expedite the care process and provide patient comfort.
- Identify patient risks and communicate them to the provider.
- Prepare and maintain exam rooms, ensuring proper sanitation and supply stocking.
- Collect and prepare lab specimens and complete necessary requisitions.
- Administer medications and vaccinations per provider orders and established protocols within their scope of practice.
- Support patient procedures and assist with medical examinations.
- Complete follow-up phone calls to all patients within two to three days post discharge.
Minimum Qualifications
- Specialized Diploma as a Medical Assistant or completion of LVPG Medical Assistant Trainee course.
- Strong multitasking, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in EMR systems, word processing, and Excel.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining efficiency, in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating empathy and professionalism.
- Exceptional customer service and phone etiquette.
- Knowledge of clinical workflows, medical terminology, and basic patient care practices.
- BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association Within 30 Days
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate's Degree from a Medical Assistant Program.
- 1 year customer service experience in a healthcare setting.
- CCMA - Certified Clinical Medical Assistant - National Healthcareer Association Upon Hire or CMA - Certified Medical Assistant - American Association of Medical Assistants Upon Hire or CMAC - Clinical Medical Assistant Certification - American Medical Certification Association Upon Hire or MAC - Medical Assistant Certification - American Medical Certification Association Upon Hire or NCMA - National Certified Medical Assistant - National Center for Competency Testing Upon Hire or NRCMA - National Registered Certified Medical Assistant - National Association for Health Professionals Upon Hire or RMA - Registered Medical Assistant - American Medical Technologists Upon Hire
Requirements
- Specialized Diploma as a Medical Assistant or completion of LVPG Medical Assistant Trainee course
- Strong multitasking, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in EMR systems, word processing, and Excel
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining efficiency in a fast-paced healthcare environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating empathy and professionalism
- Exceptional customer service and phone etiquette
- Knowledge of clinical workflows, medical terminology, and basic patient care practices
- BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association within 30 days
- Preferred: Associate's Degree from a Medical Assistant Program
- Preferred: 1 year customer service experience in a healthcare setting
- Preferred: CCMA, CMA, CMAC, MAC, NCMA, NRCMA, or RMA certification upon hire
Company overview
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a major healthcare provider and hospital network based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, serving the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania regions. Founded in 1899, LVHN operates as a comprehensive healthcare system with 13 hospital campuses, 28 health centers, numerous primary and specialty care physician practices, and multiple urgent care locations. The network's flagship facility, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, is Pennsylvania's third-largest hospital and features the state's first Level One Trauma Center. LVHN provides a wide range of medical services including specialized institutes for cancer care, heart and vascular treatment, surgical excellence, orthopedics, and neuroscience. The network operates the third-largest heart surgery program in Pennsylvania, performing over 1,200 open-heart procedures annually, and maintains one of the state's largest cancer centers treating over 2,400 new patients each year. In August 2024, LVHN completed a merger with Jefferson Health, becoming part of a larger healthcare system with 32 hospitals and over 700 locations across Pennsylvania. Prior to the merger, LVHN was the largest employer in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan region, with approximately 20,000 employees dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare services to the community.