Medical Assistant
2 Venture, Suite 140 Irvine, CA 92688 US
Job Description
The Back office Medical Assistant is responsible for all aspects of back office tasks including, but not limited to: preparing patients to see the physician, assist physician with procedures, respond to requests for information from patients, physicians, pharmacies, work comp adjusters, complete forms and paperwork as requested, schedule tests as requested, perform other duties as directed. Works as a team with other medical assistants in the sub specialty area to provide patients with an excellent encounter.
SCHEDULE:
Various Schedules Available including Monday to Friday 1st, 2nd, and NOC shift
*Some Saturdays/Sunday availability
REQUIREMENTS:
- High School degree required
- Minimum 6 months experience as a Medical Assistant
- CMA certificate preferred
- Training in orthopedics preferred
- CPR certification
- BLS Certification
- Bilingual Spanish is a plus!
- Cleans exam rooms to prepare for the next patient, preparing the room with necessary instruments and supplies.
- Displays charts for physician to reference for each appointment.
- Greets patients and escorts them from the waiting room to the exam rooms and back to check-out after exam.
- Prepares patients for exam or treatment.
- Assists physicians during examinations and minor procedures, including suture/stitch removal and dressing application/removal, and cast and splint application/removal, etc.
- Documents all patient correspondence in EMR
- Sends tasks to MRI, Physical Therapy and Surgery Schedulers as necessary.
- Disposes of contaminated items according to OSHA guidelines.
- Approves pharmacy requests for prescription refills according to physician's protocol.
- Ensures that laboratory samples are picked up by the reference laboratory.
- Sanitizes and shuts down sterilization equipment at the end of the day.
- Provides internal office staff, workers’ compensation adjusters, and/or case managers with work status reports and other clinical information as requested.
- Verifies HMO insurance eligibility on a daily basis to ensure patients are covered for current month.
Meet Your Recruiter
Hieu Tran
Recruiter, Marquee Healthcare Division
Hieu’s passion is promoting, consulting, and guiding people to achieve their dream careers. As a Healthcare Recruiter at Marquee Staffing, Hieu is pursuing her lifelong goal to work within the HealthCare Industry.
For the past six years, Hieu has been in the healthcare industry working as a patient coordinator, Medical lab support associate and technical sales. Achieving experience on a one-on-one basis with clinical and non-clinical staff in addition to volunteer and internship work with hospice centers, clinical projects and coordinating clinical trial patients.
Hieu considers herself hardworking, persistent, determined, intelligent, ambitious, and confident. She is eager to learn new things and takes nothing for granted. She appreciates the small things in life because small things make a big difference.
She enjoys outdoor activities and traveling with her loved ones outside of work. In her free time, Hieu enjoys reading personal development and self-help books and researching and studying the power of the human brain.