Medical Assistant Certified - Southern NJ

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist professional nursing staff by providing direct patient care; prepare charts, take temperature, pulse, perform screenings, blood pressure and respiration
• Assist physicians by maintaining practice workflow, organizing exam rooms, maintaining and ordering supplies, screening patient requests, blood draws, POC testing as directed by Provider
• Follow instructions closely and report observations and symptoms indicative of patient reactions to treatments and patient complaints
• Responsible for workflow in practice to ensure timely appointments and decreased wait-times to see Provider
• Assist in scheduling accurate initial evaluations, follow up appointments and cancellations
• Initiate all appointment reminder calls in a professional and courteous manner
• Demonstrate effective oral, listening, and written communication skills
• Prioritize duties and responsibilities and complete them accurately and in a timely fashion
• Maintain confidentiality and demonstrate responsible judgment
• Obtain and enter patient history, chief complaint, and update the medication list into the electronic medical record
• Maintain compliance with legal requirements, HIPAA, OSHA, and company policies
• Assist with other office duties including answering phones, faxing, filing
• Keep supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders, verifying receipt, sorting, and storing
• Restock exam/procedure rooms
• Maintain safe, secure, and healthy work environment
• Help answer phones, filing, greeting patients and other administrative tasks
• Perform other duties/tasks as requested by providers, coordinators, and management

Qualifications or Education, Training and Experience

• At least 2 years of similar job experience in a medical office preferred, minimum 6 months experience required
• Familiar with EKG, Phlebotomy and Patient Care
• Certified or Registered Medical Assistant
• CPR certified
• Experience on EHR and EMR systems, Athena preferred
• Knowledge of pre-authorizations and referrals

Knowledge and Skills/Expected Competencies

• Ability to clearly communicate medical information to professional practitioners and/or the general public
• Ability to maintain confidential information
• Good interpersonal skills, sense of urgency, being proactive and ownership for one's work
• Dependable, with strong work ethic and extremely high degree personal integrity
• Ability to deal with multiple interruptions on a continual basis that must be met with a friendly exchange with others
• Helpful and constructive view of working with others to achieve positive outcomes
• Taking responsibility and being accountable for your own actions