Medical Assistant​/Patient Account Rep - Community Based Outreach

Overview

Reporting to the Practice Manager, this position provides front and back office support performing various clerical and technical duties and is responsible for financial counseling of patients, effective management of financial transactions, and timely entering of charges, patient referrals, and coordinates Vaccines For Children program. Performs front office duties such as scheduling patient appointments, patient registration, maintaining medical records, determining program eligibility and billing.

Collects essential health, medical, and biographical information from the patient or the patient’s parent/legal guardian to be placed into the medical record. Performs back office MA duties and assists the providers with basic procedures adhering to scope of training and experience. May perform duties at multiple work locations.

• Training in medical terminology and front and back office operations preferred.
• Ability to read, write and speak Spanish preferred.
• Experience performing phlebotomy techniques including special procedures such as injections, blood cultures, skin tests, skin punctures, finger sticks and heel sticks preferred.
• Computer literacy required, including Word and Excel.
• Medical billing with ICD-10 and CPT coding experience highly desired.
• Medical insurance verification and billing experience highly desired.