Medical Assistant

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Responsibilities

• Welcomes patients, visitors, physicians, and staff in a warm, friendly, and professional manner.
• Rooms patients upon arrival, documenting patient's vital signs and chief complaint in the patient's chart.
• Assumes responsibility for assisting physicians with procedures and tests as within the Medical Assistant Scope of Practice.
• Reviews patient's chart two days prior to appointment to ensure all pertinent information is up-to-date.
• Orders outside testing, obtaining any authorization needed and notifies patient of scheduled appointments.
• Pulls prescription refill requests and obtains approval from physician to refill.
• Calls or faxes in any orders approved by physician.
• Checks voice mail messages regularly throughout the day and addresses/responds to all inquiries by the end of each day.
• Completes doctor's disability reports and places a copy of report in patient's chart.
• Assists in routing completed billing sheet to the appropriate location.
• Cleans and sterilizes instruments.
• Maintains OSHA logs and keeps up to date for compliance.
• Restocks patient rooms with supplies on a daily basis.
• Inventories and orders medical supplies as needed.
• Checks assigned physicians mail on a daily basis and notifies physician of patients' lab and test results; meeting times; etc.
• Makes appointment confirmation calls as needed.
• Provides back-up as instructed by office manager and/or physician.
• Handle Medical records requests as needed.
• Promotes the purpose, values and foundations of IHMG at all levels of the organization and to our customers.

Qualifications

Required

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Graduation from an accredited medical assistant program.
• Current CPR certification.

Preferred

• One year work related experience.
• Certified California Medical Assistant.
• Bi-lingual English / Spanish.