Medical Assistant

Job purpose

Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician/physician assistant. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Duties and Responsibilities

• 1.
• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
• 2.
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
• 3.
• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
• 4.
• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
• 5.
• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
• 6.
• Collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
• 7.
• Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies; utilizing Polices, MAPS and start talking.
• 8.
• Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
• 9.
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
• 10.
• Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones, or completing insurance forms.
• 11.
• Responsible for charting all medical conversations in the patient chart and following up with the patient as indicated.
• 12.
• Responsible for all prior authorizations for advanced imaging.
• 13.
• Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
• 14.
• Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
• 15.
• Change dressings on wounds.
• 16.