Medical Administrative Assistant: Scheduling & EMR Support

FALL CREEK FARM & NURSERY; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Corpus Christi, TX is seeking an Administrative Assistant I-Medical Diagnostic to support medical records and scheduling within the state operated facility.

Responsibilities include filing active charts, maintaining electronic records, coordinating appointments, obtaining physician signatures, and ensuring timely documentation for patient care. Strong clerical skills and familiarity with MS Outlook/Word/Excel are required.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or GED equivalent.
• At least two years of medical related experience.
• Medical Terminology and experience working with medical reports is required.

Responsibilities

• Attends work on a regular basis and may be required to work a specific shift schedule or, at times, even a rotating schedule, extended shift and/or overtime in accordance with agency leave policy and performs other duties as assigned.
• Files and maintains order of active charts.
• Thins chart as needed; maintains retention charts following guidelines.
• Audits active charts and electronic records in order to recognize deficiencies, errors or lack of documentation in accordance with facility guidelines
• Manages inactive clinical records to assure accuracy of information and timely availability to medical staff.
• Assist with process of scheduling and rescheduling medical appointments, tracking appointment statuses and providing reports to assist in quality of care process.
• Obtains physician signatures on lab reports, consultations, progress notes, etc., and files signed documents in the appropriate patient record within prescribed timeframes in order to document patient care.
• Performs other duties as assigned in order to ensure that services are provided.
• Directly responsible for the electronic medical records.
• Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation. Such participation may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location.

Skills

General clerical

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat

Data entry

Communication

Organization

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Corpus Christi, TX is seeking an Administrative Assistant I-Medical Diagnostic to support medical records and scheduling within the state operated facility.

Responsibilities include filing active charts, maintaining electronic records, coordinating appointments, obtaining physician signatures, and ensuring timely documentation for patient care. Strong clerical skills and familiarity with MS Outlook/Word/Excel are required.