Medical Assistant, Neurosurgery

Overview

Provides support with the daily activities of a medical office by performing the following duties and other duties as assigned.

• Hours:
  
  PRN - hours will vary upon need.
• Location:
  
  Michael Berry Building, Janesville WI.
• Shift: Day Shift, No Weekends, No Holidays.
• No benefits.

• Room patients, collect assessment data, and prepare patient according to specific need.
• Assist in examination, treatment, and other clinic procedures.
• Assist with laboratory procedures, screening tests, and QI projects.
• Answer telephone and either respond to inquiry, direct caller to appropriate personnel, or initiate a triage slip for response by medical personnel.
• Schedule appointments and enter appointment date and time into computerized scheduler.
• Conduct reminder calls to all patients.
• Greet and direct patients, salespeople, and visitors.
• Register patients by verifying that patient’s records are up to date and accurate.
• Make appropriate changes in computer system and on patient chart.
• Coordinate referrals for patients through insurance and other physician offices.
• Collect payment from patients and issue receipt where applicable.
• Prepare and maintain patient charts.
• Maintain and order supplies.

Graduate of a medical assistant program accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) or the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), or graduate of a medical assistant program in a post‑secondary school or college that has institutional accreditation by a regional accrediting commission or by a national accrediting organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education, or a graduate of an educational program accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), such as the National Health career Association (NHA).

Program with a clinical rotation preferred.

• Approved CPR or BLS certification required within 90 days.
• Medication injection training and pharmacology competency required for medication administration.

The special physical demands are considered essential job functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations. Manual dexterity needed to operate equipment, perform procedures, operate telephone and keyboard. Must be able to lift and transfer patients. Frequently required to stand, walk, handle, finger, feel, reach, talk, and hear. Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste and smell.

The job requires exerting 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and 25 to 50 pounds occasionally. Vision and focus abilities include frequent close vision; occasionally distance, color, peripheral, depth, and focus adjustment.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, flexible spending plans, and discounted voluntary benefit options.
• Competitive compensation with shift differential and special pay incentive programs.
• Generous paid time off increasing with milestone anniversaries.
• Educational assistance programs and career ladders for advancement.
• Employee wellbeing resources, including health risk assessments and a wellbeing mobile application.
• Access to employee assistance programs, discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on‑demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education for retirement planning.