Medical Assistant - Health - Boston

Position: Medical Assistant - Employee Health - Boston
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* Minimum Qualifications:

** 1. High school diploma or equivalent.
2. Obtain Medical Assistant National Certification Attestation issued by a governing body (AAMA, AMCA, AMT, NCCT, or NHA).3. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
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* * Obtain within three (3) months.
4. Two (2) years of Medical Assistant experience.
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* Preferred Qualifications:

** 1. Three (3) years of Medical Assistant experience.
2. Bilingual.
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Experience with electronic medical record systems.
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* Duties and Responsibilities:

** The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list.  Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
1. Controls and monitors patient flow to maximize efficient use of providers and exam rooms. Communicates delays to patients and providers. Responds to variations in patient volume, provider ability, and resources (e.g. early arrivals, no shows, providers who are absent, etc.) by making continual adjustments in room utilization and assignment.  
2. Prepares medical record for patient visit, confirming accuracy with patient identifiers, entering chief complaint and social history. This may require interviewing the patient to obtain data.
3. Exercises a high degree of customer service in all interactions with patients, internal and external customers.
4. Provides a safe, comfortable, and clean environment for patients and families.
5. Escorts patient to exam room and prepares patient for provider visit.  This may include pediatric, adult, or geriatric patients.  Checks to ensure patient comfort, privacy, and safety.
6. Ensures patient and personal safety.  Completes a fall risk assessment.  May sit with a patient who needs monitoring.
7. Prepares exam room for each patient in accordance with needs of patient’s visit.
8. Assists and/or chaperones providers/nursing with physical exams, treatments and procedures as necessary.
9. Performs and records vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, oxygen saturation, height and weight), records patient’s stated level of pain, and reviews list of medications with patient.
10. Performs collection of specimens and/or ensures the necessary supplies and equipment are ready for the provider to use during the visit.
11. Performs Point of Care Testing (POC) as ordered including but not limited to Urine dips, HCG testing, Strep A, HGB A1C, and glucose testing.
12. Performs quality control checks on equipment.
13. Assists in arranging for diagnostic testing and surgical procedures under direction of the nurse or physician.
14. Assists with patient billing by ensuring CPT codes, diagnosis codes and all supplies and procedures are indicated on charting.
15. Ensures outside paperwork is scanned into patient’s electronic medical record.
16. Processes and tracks referrals and prior authorizations as requested/ordered by provider. Notifies provider of patient requests for referrals and prescription renewals.
17. Stocks, maintains and rotates medical supplies in clinic rooms daily according to clinic demands.  Monitors expiration dates. Monitors medical supply inventory for clinic and orders medical supplies as needed.
18. Participates in unit specific quality improvement projects i.e. hand washing audits, time-outs, refrigerator/medication logs, daily/monthly code cart checks.
19. Provides administrative support which may include coordinating interpreter services, answering telephone calls, taking accurate messages, forwarding messages, and faxing.
20. May administer immunizations as needed.
21. Trains and orients new medical assistants and will precept students.
22. May perform hand hygiene audits.
23. May be asked to cover satellite locations.
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* Physical Requirements:

** 1. Occasional lifting of 30-35 pounds and turning of patients.
2. Prolonged standing and walking.
3. Occasional twisting, bending, reaching, pushing/pulling, sitting, kneeling, and squatting.
4. Exposure to infectious disease and possible carcinogenic chemicals.
5. Exposure of blood-borne pathogens.
6. Requires fine manual dexterity to lift and maneuver patients.
7. Requires…