Provider Support Assistant - Duke Eye Center

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Duke Health Integrated Practice

Duke Health Integrated Practice comprises more than 110 primary and specialty outpatient clinics, extending the reach of the Duke Health mission across the state of North Carolina.

Duke Eye Center - 2351 Erwin Road

We are seeking a Provider Support Assistant to perform administrative responsibilities in support of one or more physician(s) and/or advanced provider(s).

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Schedule and reschedule patients based on faculty's template
• Monitor schedules and try to decompress overbooked clinics by rescheduling patients as necessary
• Monitor schedules to ensure patients are scheduled correctly and reschedule patients as needed
• Answer patient phone calls
• Manage patient referrals
• Manage in basket messages/requests
• Request new patient notes prior to patients appointment
• Ensure all paperwork (FMLA, school/work notes, insurance paperwork) is completed and returned to the patient in a timely manner
• Create and mail new patient information packets
• Print and mail patient No-Show letters
• Submit Schedule Change Request form when bumping, adding or making template edits for faculty

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Manage providers Outlook Calendar
• Licensures - keep all licenses up-to-date for your faculty
• Process provider reimbursements in a timely manner
• Submit providers time away in QGenda
• Screen mail and handle appropriately
• Attend scheduled division meetings
• Provide coverage for other retina staff assistants when they are out of the office

• High school diploma or equivalent education required.
• One-year experience of clerical or general office support required.

The schedule for this position is day shifts, Monday-Friday, with no weekends or holidays.

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