Medical Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Agency Profile : Spectrum Health & Human Services respectfully partners with adults, children, and families as they recover from behavioral, emotional, mental health and / or substance related disorders by offering individualized and meaningful opportunities of hope, empowerment, and support to achieve self-defined improvements in their quality of life.

Full-time : Various Locations

JOB DESCRIPTION :

To provide clinical support services to Nursing Services.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :

• Knowledge and demonstration of agency core values in day-to-day activities.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively use technology and appropriate use of support.
• Providing compassionate patient support and care, attention, and assistance during office visits
• Coordinating daily office activities, greeting individuals, and checking individuals in for their appointments
• Gathering data and documenting information in EMR and reporting any concerns to nursing leadership
• Obtaining and recording vital signs
• Drawing blood as needed, when fully trained to do so.
• Assist with managing medline calls, obtains necessary information for nursing staff to follow through clinically with the individuals needs
• Maintains contact with individuals to assure outcome of medline request are completed
• Maintains a central reference point for medline issues for updates / status changes
• Obtaining prior authorizations
• Obtains PMP documentation as needed for medication review
• Looking up HealtheLink documents as requested
• Performs clinical activities as assigned
• Performs data / spreadsheet, faxing, scanning etc for information flow
• Runs reports as requested by Nursing leadership

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COMPENSATION : $17.46 / hr - $22.26 / hr