Medical Assistant- Oncology at Stockton Hematology Oncology Medical Group, Inc.
Modesto, CA 95350
About the Job
- Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves patients by greeting and helping them, scheduling appointments, and maintaining records and accounts.
- Comforts patients by anticipating patients’ anxieties, answering patients’ questions, and maintaining the reception area.
- Obtaining and updating patient history and medication lists.
- Recording patients' vital signs, documenting physicians' notes and changes in medical conditions
- Taking tissue and fluid samples and sending them in for laboratory analysis
- Prepping exam rooms for clinical procedures and assisting practitioners with patient care
- Assisting physicians during routine checkups, outpatient procedures and other physical exams
- Monitoring and documenting patient symptoms for physicians' review during clinical exams
- Providing compassionate patient support and care, attention and assistance during office visits
- Administering injections under the direction of supervising physicians
- Blood draws and maintaining laboratory binders for CBC machine
- Serves patients by greeting and helping them, scheduling appointments, and maintaining records and accounts.
- Welcomes patients and visitors in person or on the telephone, and answering or referring inquiries.
- Optimizes patients’ satisfaction, provider time, and treatment room utilization by scheduling appointments in person or by telephone.
- Comforts patients by anticipating patients’ anxieties, answering patients’ questions, and maintaining the reception area.
- Ensures availability of treatment information by filing and retrieving patient records.
- Maintains patient accounts by obtaining, recording, and updating personal and financial information.
- Obtains revenue by recording and updating financial information, recording and collecting patient charges, controlling credit extended to patients, and filing, collecting, and expediting third-party claims.
- Maintains business office inventory and equipment by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, placing and expediting orders for supplies, verifying receipt of supplies, and scheduling equipment service and repairs.
- Helps patients in distress by responding to emergencies.
- Protects patients’ rights by maintaining confidentiality of medical, personal, and financial information.
- Maintains operations by following policies and procedures, reporting needed changes.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Any other task asked of you by your supervisor or management.
- Job Skills:
- Patient focused
- Professional
- Attention to detail
- Ability to create a productive work environment
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.
- Effective communication
- Qualifications
- High school diploma (required)
- Medical Assistant Certification
- Basic CPR certified
- One year experience in a medical or research field
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft office computer programs.
- Working knowledge of EMR system
- Working conditions:
- In office position
- Basic physical requirements:
- Climbing
- standing for long periods of time
- Stooping
- Sitting and typing for long periods of time
- Lifting up to 30 lbs
- Travel Requirements:
- Travel as needed for training and vacation coverage purposes
- All travel/mileage is reimbursed at 0.625/mile while on the clock
- Compensation:
- Non-exempt, hourly position
- Hourly range of $18.00-$25.00 per hour based on experience and time with the company .
- Between 32 and 40 hours per week. Monday through Thursday 8 am to 5 pm with a 1 hour lunch break. Occasional Friday's for training and coverage needs, 8 am to 12:30 or 4:00 pm.
- Benefits:
- Full medical coverage for the employee, can choose between Kaiser and Blue Shield Plans.
- HSA available to those who chose Blue Shield.
- Dependents and Spouses can be added at the employee's expense
- Vision and Dental Plans offered to the employee at the employee expense
- Vision plans are included in the Kaiser Medical Plan if you choose Kaiser as your medical insurance.
- 401k and profit sharing plans available after 1 year of hire
- Colonial Life, Accident, Cancer plans offered
- Scrub stipend in the spring and fall, $125
- Monthly cell phone stipend of $15.00
- PTO package-vacation and sick combined. Accrue 1.54 hrs per pay period from date of hire. Accrual rate increases at the 1, 5, and 10 year anniversary.
Salary
18 - 25 /hour
competitive salary, benefits
competitive salary, benefits
