Medical Office Assistant Administrative - Structural Heart Clinic

UNC Health; North Carolina; On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Raleigh, NC, is seeking a full-time Medical Administrative Assistant to support patient check-in/out, handle billing information, and provide excellent customer service. This role processes insurance verification, codes visits, and coordinates appointments.

The ideal candidate has a high school diploma or GED, experience in a medical office, and strong computer and communication skills. Join a large health system that offers growth opportunities and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents, write routine reports and correspondence, and speak effectively to groups.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.
• Computer Skills: Ability to enter and process data accurately.
• Reasoning Ability: Apply common sense understanding to carry out written or oral instructions.

Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintains compliance with revenue cycle and financial audit guidelines.
• Demonstrates effective computer skills, files, answers phones in a timely and professional manner providing complete and accurate information, and provides other administrative duties as required.
• Accurately performs patient check in and check out procedures, obtains current insurance verification and authorization, codes visits (ICD/CPT), balances daily receipts, and responds to billing questions.
• Schedules patient appointments entering all required demographic and clinical information into the system and coordinating with other parties.
• Orders and maintains clinical supplies, office supplies, and equipment.
• Maintains compliance with HIPAA, OSHA, and infection prevention policies and procedures; participates in unit performance improvement activities.
• Demonstrates good customer service and teamwork when interacting with patients, families, and visitors.

Skills

Language Skills

Computer Skills

Reasoning Ability

Mathematical Skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

Performs patient check in and check out procedures, processes financial information, and provides patient billing information. Demonstrates effective customer service and computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintains compliance with revenue cycle and financial audit guidelines.
• Demonstrates effective computer skills, files, answers phones in a timely and professional manner providing complete and accurate information, and provides other administrative duties as required.
• Accurately performs patient check in and check out procedures. Processes privileged patient health information (obtains current insurance verification and authorization, codes visits using accurate ICD and CPT codes), balances daily receipts, and responds to billing questions. Schedules patient appointments entering all required demographic and clinical information into the system and coordinating with other parties.
• Orders and maintains clinical supplies, office supplies, and equipment.
• Maintains compliance with established safety and regulatory guidelines, including HIPAA, OSHA, and infection prevention policies and procedures. Participates in unit performance improvement activities.
• Demonstrates good customer service skills when interacting with patients, families, and visitors. Exhibits effective communication skills and team work.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• No licensure or certification required.

Professional Experience Requirements

• Prefer completion of an accredited medical administrative assisting program and previous experience in a medical office.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of patients, or employees of organization. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent. Computer Skills: Ability to enter and process data accurately. 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.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Health Medical Group

Organization Unit: Structural Heart Clinic

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $18.48 - $25.89 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities.