About the Role
Provides clerical and secretarial support to assure smooth daily department operations. Assures that the patient and examination area is properly prepared.
Responsibilities
- Greets and brings patient back from waiting room to clinical area, obtaining vital signs as required.
- Registers, updates patient information, and bills physician charges to patients' accounts, verifying demographic and insurance information.
- Provides clerical and secretarial work associated with patient care, including copying and dictation.
- Prepares, files, and organizes patient charts.
- Schedules appointments for patients in the office, for testing, or with other physicians.
- Ensures the examination area is clean and stocked.
- Prepares the patient for the scheduled visit to maintain timely patient flow.
- Conducts in-office testing as directed by the physician and coordinates testing and outside ancillary services.
- Collects, prepares, and processes specimens as directed by the physician.
- Maintains inventory and ensures proper upkeep, cleaning, and testing of medical equipment and supplies, filling out appropriate logs.
- Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
- Maintains and models Nuvance Health Values.
- Demonstrates regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
- Performs other duties as required.
Requirements
- Data entry required.
- One year medical assistant/secretary experience, or graduate of accredited Medical Assistant training program.
- Basic medical knowledge and terminology.
- Skill in obtaining accurate patient vital signs.
- Minimum of one year of experience.
- Ability to schedule patients.
- Knowledge of telephone switchboard.
- CPR, CNA, MA or EMT certification.
Skills
- Data entry
- Obtaining accurate patient vital signs
- Scheduling patients
- Telephone switchboard operation
Location
- Rhinebeck
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- One year
Education Level
- Graduate of accredited Medical Assistant training program
- CPR certification
- CNA certification
- MA certification
- EMT certification
Salary/Compensations
- $18.83 - $34.50 Hourly
About the Company
- Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians.
- Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities.
- Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees — including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — who are working to change health care for the better.
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