Back Office - Medical Assistant \ CPHW

Job Summary

The Comprehensive Prenatal Health Worker I (CPHW I) provides support services, ongoing orientations, assessments, care plan development, appropriate nutrition, health education and psychosocial interventions and referral when needed, to UCHC's prenatal patients.

Essential Functions

• Conducts face-to face interviews with all prenatal patients, screens patients for presumptive eligibility (PE) and issuing of PE cardif eligible; Issues the 2nd good thru extension for patients.
• Identify opportunities and facilitate efforts to expand service or increase patient access into programs.
• Assures client charts are documented whenever telephone & face-to-face contact is made.
• Codes all super bills accordingly to type of visit and signs all chart entries using legal signature and title.
• Provides ongoing orientation, assessments, classes and makes the appropriate referrals when needed to our prenatal patients.
• Prepares all Intake packets English / Spanish and makes sure all appointments have been given to patient accordingly. i.e.,Intake, Initial, Medi-Cal, etc.
• Assist patients in completing Medi-Cal forms (application) and follow-up on no show / missed appointments.
• Orders all prenatal forms as needed and fax weekly PE enrollment Summary Forms to the state.
• Fax weekly schedules to Medi-Cal worker and advocate for patients with the Medi-Cal worker.
• Case management of the prenatal program, which includes reviewing all prenatal charts after each clinic visit with the provider, aswell as reviewing each chart the day before the visit with the provider. This is to assure that all procedures, tests, etc. that theprovider has ordered have been done and lab results have been received on a timely manner.
• Attends recommended job-related trainings provided by the CPSP County program.

Non-Essential Functions

Professional Requirements

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to corporate mission.

Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions

Working Conditions

Work Schedule

Our Mission

The mission of Unicare is to be a community health care organization that treats everyone with dignity, respect and cultural sensitivity to help create an environment in which all can prosper.

General Sign-off

The employee is expected to adhere to all agency policies, follow the employee handbook and to act as a role model in adherence to company.