Medical Assistant - Marana Vascular Access Office/
Company: Insperity
Location: Marana
Posted on: August 5, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionArizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center
(AKDHC) is one of the nation's largest groups of physicians
specializing in the care of patients with renal disease. Since
1976, we have enjoyed the trust of patients and the respect of the
community throughout the Phoenix Metropolitan area and across
Arizona. We are a professional medical association consisting of
physicians and other vital support staff. To learn more about us,
please visit our website: www.akdhc.com. Medical Assistant –
Vascular Access Office/Access Surgery Center - Marana VAO/ASC -
AKDHCThis Medical Assistant performs general medical support for
the care and treatment of patients and general clerical duties to
assist all office personnel as directed. This person may be
required to report to alternate AKDHC worksites, as directed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other
duties may be assigned.
- Perform patient care activities, such as front & back office
check-in, check-out, prescription refills, suture removals,
schedule procedures, and provide patient education.
- Interview patients, measure vital signs, such as pulse rate,
temperature, blood pressure, weight, height; and update medication
list; record information in patients' charts/EMR.
- Notify physician of changes in patient's clinical status and/or
abnormal test results.
- Collect wound culture samples and process specimens for courier
transport.
- Monitor and optimize allotted time slots in all schedules
utilizing the available programs/reports.
- Complete clerical tasks including but not limited to
distributing mail and reports, filing, scanning, scheduling, data
input, answering phones, and general support to all office
personnel and vascular & ancillary team.
- Adhere to company policies and procedures and prioritize and
complete day-to-day activities.
- Maintain office equipment, office, and medical supplies through
efficient inventory management.
- Process Vascular Access Reports.
- Updates and keeps current AKDHC EMR programs related to access
information.
- Process No-show reports; follow up with patients and/or primary
care physicians as needed.
- Monitor open encounters, ensuring physician review and
signature, and process missing slips.
- Process medical record requests for patients, referring
physician offices, and attorneys by adhering to HIPAA regulations
to ensure HPI.
- Adheres to a strict patient and corporate confidentiality.
- Keeps supervisor and team informed on any patient issues, and
overall opportunities for improvement.Qualifications: To perform
this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are
representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education/Experience: Two years related experience and/or
training preferred
- Certificates and Licenses: Medical Assistant Certificate or a
diploma showing successful completion of a Medical Assistant
training program through an accredited institution preparing
Medical Assistants for the work
- Language Ability: Ability to read and comprehend simple
instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write
simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information
in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and
other employees of the organization.
- Math Ability: Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and
to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform
these operations using units of American money and weight
measurement, volume, and distance.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding
to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in
standardized situations.
- Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an
individual should have knowledge of Athena, DocTalk and Office
software and minimum data entry rate equivalent to 35 words per
minute. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics
described here are representative of those an employee encounters
while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work
environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are
representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must
occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision
abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly
required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with
hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently
required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The
employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.
Benefits:We value our employees' time and efforts. Our commitment
to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and
extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental
and vision benefits and future growth opportunities within the
company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment
for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the
company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment
where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes,
decisions, planning, and culture.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected
veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Keywords: Insperity, Tucson , Medical Assistant - Marana Vascular Access Office/, Administration, Clerical , Marana, Arizona
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