Medical Administrative Assistant - Cancer Center
GWU Medical Faculty Associates
Washington, District of Columbia
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Position Summary
To perform a variety of secretarial/administrative duties for a physician(s) through extensive patient contact.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.
CLINICAL
- Make patient appointments
- Gather information from referring physician(s)
- Get films printed and pick them up
- Arrange and coordinate all preoperative appointments
- Contact primary care physician and request necessary referrals for testing
- Gather all results from preoperative appointments before surgery
- Fax information to PASS unit
- Schedule patients' surgery
- Pre-certify all surgical procedures
- Send surgical orders to the PASS unit
BILLING
- Gather demographics on patients for billing (if done at other hospitals)
- Find all diagnosis codes for all surgical and office bills
- Verify that all surgeries have been billed
- Keep a list of all surgical procedures and ICU billing performed by a physician(s)
- File all patient information
ADMINISTRATIVE
- Complete applications for physician(s) to get privileges to other hospitals
- Keep track of all medical licensure and expiration dates
- Sort and open mail
You must contact Employee Health Services within 5 days of the start date for evaluation as to what exposure risk if any is related to this position.
Qualifications
Education
- A high school graduate or equivalent combination of training and experience is necessary; knowledge of medical terminology.
Experience
- 3 years of secretarial experience in a healthcare environment.
- Experience working with patient records, billing, and scheduling in a clinical setting is needed for this position.
- Typing skill of 50-60WPM is necessary.
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