Medical Assistant - Clinical & Front-Office Care

US Digestive Health; Langhorne (Bucks County); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

US Digestive Health is seeking a dedicated Medical Assistant to support physicians in delivering high-quality patient care in a busy gastroenterology office. You will collect medical histories, record vital signs, manage medications and allergies, and help prepare patient charts and test results.

Responsibilities include rooming patients, assisting with exams and procedures, administering breath tests, coordinating EMR documents, scheduling tests, and ensuring exam rooms are organized and

Qualifications

• High School Graduate
• Medical Assistant or Nursing Assistant experience
• Current BLS certification
• Ability to deal compassionately, professionally, and courteously with patients, their families.
• Full range of body motion, including manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Extensive periods of standing or walking.
• Bending, lifting, and carrying.

Responsibilities

• Take patients to exam rooms, gathering all necessary information for providers (i.e. height, weight, vitals, verifying allergies/meds, entering information into EMR when applicable, verifying previous information in EMR)
• Assist providers with physical exams/sigmoidoscopies/bandings as needed
• Administer Breath Tests
• Call patients with normal test results at provider's request
• Answer/return calls to patients with questions or concerns when necessary
• Receive and distribute all EMR documents and emails
• Order and pre-authorize special injectable and oral medication
• Hepatitis C patient follow up with lab orders and results when LPN unavailable
• Order and monitor sample medications
• File and track lab and radiology orders to make sure that patients follow through with their care as directed by the providers
• Track procedure and pathology reports and forward to providers
• Enter recalls in EMR
• Keep exam rooms clean, neat and always stocked
• Collect Biohazard Red Bags each month for pick up
• Take inventory as needed to accurately order supplies
• Schedule procedures, office visits, labs, radiology, and consultations, when necessary,
• Log off, shut down and place laptop computers in locked exam room cabinet each evening
• Displays ability to access, interpret and document relevant patient history.
• Displays proficiency in using office hardware & Misys & Chart Capture systems
• Appropriately & accurately sort and place procedure reports in patient charts.
• Identifies, provides, and records relevant hospital, patient history documentation.
• Accesses patient laboratory results, using online or telephone procedures, as required.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Compassionate patient care

Multitasking

BLS certification

Gastroenterology nursing

Education

High School Graduate

Tools

ECW

Misys

Chart Capture

Job description

US Digestive Health is seeking a dedicated Medical Assistant to support physicians in delivering high-quality patient care in a busy gastroenterology office. You will collect medical histories, record vital signs, manage medications and allergies, and help prepare patient charts and test results.

Responsibilities include rooming patients, assisting with exams and procedures, administering breath tests, coordinating EMR documents, scheduling tests, and ensuring exam rooms are organized and