Pathology Reporting Specialist

SSM Health; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

DailyPay salary access

Upfront Tuition Coverage

Job summary

SSM Health Ambulatory Care Center CSM in St. Louis, MO is seeking staff for pathology-related transcription support. The role involves documenting demographics, orders, and reports in the EMR and assisting with preparation of diagnostic materials for lab testing and tumor board reviews.

Primary duties include triaging calls, communicating with providers, scanning documents, and editing dictation for accuracy. A high school diploma or 10 years of experience is required. Day shift, 40 hours weekly.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED or equivalent work experience.
• No professional license required.

Responsibilities

• Documents patient demographics, orders, reports, and billing records into the electronic medical record.
• Assists with preparation of diagnostic material for reference lab testing and tumor board materials.
• Answers and triages phone calls, relays messages, and fulfills requested tasks prompted by encounters.
• Communicates additional test recommendations to outside providers.
• Scans requisitions and reports into the electronic medical record; initiates amended reports as needed.
• Interprets and edits medical dictation, ensuring accuracy without altering meaning or the dictator's style.
• Uses dictation transcription software and electronic health record systems.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

Job description

It’s more than a career, it’s a calling.

MO-SSM Health Ambulatory Care Center CSM

Worker Type

Regular

Job Summary

Performs a variety of tasks to support the pathologists, surgical pathology and cytology departments, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Documents patient demographics, orders, reports, billing records, and other necessary information into the electronic medical record.
• Assists with requests in the preparation of diagnostic material for reference lab testing, research studies and tumor board (e.g., processing orders, requesting materials, and packaging diagnostic material and documentation).
• Answers and triages phone calls, relays messages, and fulfills requested tasks prompted by these encounters.
• Contacts outside providers to communicate additional test recommendations based on the pathologists' findings.
• Scans paper requisitions, second opinion pathology reports, and unsolicited pathology reports into the electronic medical record. Initiates amended reports as needed.
• Interprets and converts dictation by health care professionals into printed text. Recognizes, interprets, and evaluates inconsistencies, discrepancies and inaccuracies in medical dictation and appropriately edits, revises, and/or clarifies without altering meaning of dictation or changing dictator's style.
• Utilizes computerized dictation and transcription software and electronic health record software.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

Experience

• No experience required

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Required Professional License And/Or Certifications

• None

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type

Employee

Department

4899230235 SLUCR DERMPATH LAB

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Benefits

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

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