Certified Medical Assistant - CMA Float Team
Company: CARLE
Location: Champaign
Posted on: October 12, 2024
Job Description:
Seeking a highly motivated individual interested in supporting
multiple areas within the ambulatory clinic setting. The Certified
Medical Assistant / Registered Medical Assistant performs routine
administrative and patient care support duties in a medical
practice to assist medical and/or nursing staff in the examination
and treatment of patients and ensures that the office runs
smoothly.
- Rooming patients: Collecting pertinent information regarding
the patient's chief complaint, family history, social history,
surgical history, and medication reconciliation upon arrival for a
patient visit.
- Telephone Interactions: As directed, completing necessary
telephone communications with patients, families, pharmacies,
and/or other health care facilities. Gathering information and
maintaining patient information via telephone per department
specific processes and policies.
- Administrative tasks including, but not limited to, patient
check in or check out, prior authorizations, scheduling
appointments, verification of benefits, and coordination of
referrals and testing.
- Office procedures as directed and per department specific
competencies. May perform procedures such as urine
catheterizations, bladder scanning, suture or staple removal,
application or removal of casts at the direction of a provider,
reading results of negative TB skin tests or steering patient to
the care of a department nurse when TB screening appears to have
indications of a positive read, and other diagnostic testing at the
point of care.
- Provide patient with written instructions regarding procedures,
medications, or follow up instructions at the direction of the
provider. CMA staff may retrieve and provide condition specific
education from the internet, internal website, or printed materials
per the provider directions and orders.
- Administer medications per the provider order.
- Provide assistance with prescription medication refills per
department protocols. Call medications into pharmacies, notify
patients of refills, and documents actions within the EMR per
provider orders.
- Maintain department specific competencies related to point of
care testing, equipment handling, and specialty training.
- Ability to react to frequent changes in duties and volumes of
work.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Commitment to respectful treatment of all colleagues.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Reliable transportation to support various ambulatory clinics
as assigned.
- Float staff are required to perform all department specific job
functions within the scope of their role that is required in the
department in which they are standing.
- Medication reconciliation
- Injections
- Medication refill request
- Point of Care testing & processing lab specimens
- Prior authorizations, completing forms, clear coverage for HAMP
as needed.
- Collect and process specimens correctly.
- May be asked to work weekends/holiday as necessary. This would
be minimum requirement and rotation.
- May be asked to support pop up/temporary departments, as
needed.
Keywords: CARLE, Decatur , Certified Medical Assistant - CMA Float Team, Healthcare , Champaign, Illinois
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