Certified Medical Assistant

Career Opportunities with 61st Street Service Corp

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The 61st Street Service Corporation, provides administrative and clinical support staff for Columbia Doctors
. This position will support Columbia Doctors, one of the largest multi-specialty practices in the Northeast. Columbia Doctors’ practices comprise an experienced group of more than 2,800 physicians, surgeons, dentists, and nurses, offering more than 240 specialties and subspecialties.

Opportunity to grow as part of the Certified Medical Assistant Career Ladder!

The Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) will serve as a key member of the patient care team in an ambulatory setting. This position will work closely with providers across multiple specialties as well as with other clinical and administrative staff to deliver an exceptional patient experience that contributes to positive health outcomes for patients and a work culture in alignment with our values of Service-Oriented, Trust, Empathy, Safety, Inclusion, and Communication.

• Greet and interact with patients, visitors, vendors, and all faculty and staff.
• Prepare patients for their visit including:
  • Pre-visit organization of information required for an efficient in-office experience, performing patient escort and rooming functions (taking vital signs, medication reconciliation, accurate documentation of chief complaint, updating history as requested, updating EMR (Epic) as required).
• Assisting patients as needed with walking, dressing, collecting and processing specimens and point of care testing, preparing for exam, etc. Serving as a chaperone in the exam room as requested.
• Assisting physicians with examinations, procedures, and department-specific therapies that does not require medical judgement or decision making.
• Performing phlebotomy duties and point-of-care tests such as urinalysis and pregnancy tests.
• Preparing and labeling collected specimens and ensuring timely delivery of specimens to appropriate designation.
• Ensuring that proper labs are drawn and documented via Epic. Assisting in troubleshooting missing labs from Epic as instructed by supervisor.
• Entering orders in Epic as required.
• Notifying physicians and nurses of emergencies and performing first aid.
• May remove sutures or staples under the supervision of a physician or other appropriately licensed person, provided that the patient is evaluated, at a minimum, immediately before the procedure by an appropriately licensed professional.
• Open sterile packages, under the continuous and direct supervision of an appropriately licensed and credentialed individual.
• Perform EKGs and/or spirometry as requested
• Enter accurate charges in the EHR
• CMAs may insert items into an autoclave and may remove sealed packages from an autoclave; the CMA must, however, be under supervision once opening the sealed package of autoclaved instruments (like opening a “sterile package”).
• Assist providers or other clinical staff with in-office procedures as requested
• Maintain daily refrigerator/freezer logs, monthly AED log and other QA logs
• Generate monthly patient no-show report and submit associated charges
• Answer patient and insurance billing inquiries via Epic in basket messages, telephone billing line, and by mail/fax correspondence
• Perform additional check out functions such as scheduling, referrals, and additional tasks as needed
• Maintain daily refrigerator/freezer logs, monthly AED log and other QA logs
• Answer patient and insurance billing inquiries via Epic in basket messages, telephone billing line, and by mail/fax correspondence
• Verify and/or update patient insurance eligibility, network status, and plan coverage
• Request authorizations and referrals for services by contacting insurance companies for coverage approval
• Maintain a working knowledge of current CPT and ICD-10 coding related to the specialty
• Generate monthly patient no-show report and submit associated charges
• Perform additional specialty-specific duties as assigned and based on clinical operation needs.
• Other duties as assigned.
• CMAs cannot perform:
  • Set up or manipulate any sterile field.
  • Perform pre-procedural…