Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

About Us: Our physicians offer a full scope of occupational medicine services designed to help reduce healthcare costs, while minimizing lost work time and increasing employee productivity. To accomplish these goals, Akeso is outcome focused and provides medical care on an urgent or appointment basis for occupational injuries and illnesses. We also design modified work and rehabilitation programs to enable injured employees to return to work as soon as possible.

As a Medical Assistant you will be responsible for providing administrative support to ensure efficient operation of the clinic. You will support doctors and patients through a variety of tasks related to patient care management, organization and communication. The target is to complete all activities accurately, with high quality and in a timely manner.

If you have the ability to represent the highest quality of care in all aspects of patient engagement, and a willingness to demonstrate a very caring and respectful demeanor we want to hear from you. The ideal candidate will reflect our mission of offering highly personalized, compassionate care and be excited by the opportunity to learn and grow with the Practice. Must be bilingual in Spanish.

Essential Functions:

• Triage and transfer phone calls.
• Greet and welcome patients and visitors as soon as they arrive at the office.
• Answer, screen, and forward incoming phone calls.
• Schedule and coordinate patient appointments.
• Insurance verifications and authorizations.
• Room patients and collect vitals.
• Perform injections, dispense medications, DME and other requests from providers.
• Responsible for transfer of patient care.
• Maintain clean exam rooms.
• Always ensure HIPPA compliance.
• Understanding of the concepts of universal precautions and OSHA.
• Review patient medical record to assure that all needed test results, forms, and reports are available to physician/provider.
• Ensure claim numbers are updated and accurate.
• Verify diagnosis codes on work status forms.
• Job duties may change to meet clinic needs.
• Complete any and all other job duties as requested by management.

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills and accurate data entry.
• Detail Oriented.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaboration Skills
• Ethical Conduct.
• Thoroughness.

Education/Experience/Skills:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in Medical Assisting required, preferable experience in Workers' Comp.
• Certified Medical Assistant required.
• Knowledge of medical terminology required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Word and Excel.
• Knowledge of basic office equipment such as scanners, electronic faxing, iPad, copy machines, etc.
• CPR and AED Certified.
• Experience in Worker's Comp strongly preferred
• Must be bilingual in Spanish

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position working nights and weekends.

NOTE: This job description may not include all of the duties assigned to the employee and may be updated and modified by the department supervisor, according to the operations at any given time.

The base salary is determined on the candidate's education, qualifications, and experience, and is subject to change based on various internal and external factors.

Akeso is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

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