Medical University of South Carolina

Health sciences university in Charleston, SC

Medical Office Assistant

Clinical Support & Patient AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeColumbia, SC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A high school diploma or equivalency plus one year of patient care experience in a health care facility; or Certified Nursing Assistant status; or successful completion of a Nursing Assistant or Medical Assistant course at an accredited institution or equivalent training; or EMT or Paramedic certification; or a Bachelor’s degree.
Ability to perform job functions while standing, sitting, walking, and climbing stairs.
Ability to work from elevated areas and in confined or cramped spaces.
Ability to kneel, bend, twist at the waist, squat, and perform gross motor activities.
Ability to perform firm grasping, reach overhead, reach in all directions, and perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders.
Ability to use the lower extremities for balance and coordination.
Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds unassisted and lift or lower objects weighing 50 pounds from or to the floor and from or to 36 inches unassisted.
Ability to lift 25 pounds from 36 inches to overhead and exert up to 50 pounds of force.
Ability to maintain corrected 20/40 vision in one eye or both eyes, recognize objects close at hand or at a distance, match or discriminate between colors, and determine distance and depth perception.
Ability to maintain hearing acuity with correction.
Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements.
Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations.
Ability to work rotating shifts and overtime as required.
Ability to work in a latex-safe environment.
Ability to maintain tactile and olfactory sensory functions.
Ability to be physically qualified for respirator use initially and as required.

Responsibilities

Provide administrative coverage at the clinic front desk.
Monitor the clinic appointment line and schedule appointments for clients from outside medical, hospital, and correctional systems.
Answer multiline telephones.
Take payments from clients for clinical services.
Complete client registration and documentation.
Schedule interpreters for clients.
Retrieve billing charges.
Provide constant and efficient operations of the physician medical office.
Perform scheduling, patient registration, telephone triage, medical records, billing, and collections.
Coordinate and participate in daily clinic preparation, patient identification, patient check-in and check-out, charge posting, cash management, and patient appointment scheduling.
Provide customer service, message distribution, ancillary scheduling and preparation, and referrals management.

Job Description Summary

MUSC Community Physicians (MCP) is an entity within the Medical University of South Carolina that provides healthcare to patients within the rural health network throughout the state of South Carolina.

Provide administrative coverage at the front desk of the Clinic including monitoring the clinic appointment line to include scheduling appointments for clients from outside medical, hospital, correction systems. Answer multiline telephones. Take payments from clients for clinical services. Complete client registration, and documentation. Schedule interpreters for clients. Retrieve billing charges.

Entity

MUSC Community Physicians (MCP)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Cost Center

CC001867 MCP - Columbia-Administration

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

Pay Grade

Health-19

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Work Shift

Job Description

•To provide constant and efficient operations of the physician medical office. Duties to include scheduling, patient registration, telephone triage, medical records, billing, and collections. Coordinate and participate in a variety of duties associated with daily clinic preparation process, patient identification, patient check in/out, charge posting, cash management and patient appointment scheduling. Position also involves customer service, message distribution, ancillary scheduling and preparation, and referrals management.

Minimum Education and Experience:

•High school diploma or equivalency plus one year of patient care experience in a health care facility; or a Certified Nursing Assistant; or successful completion of a Nursing Assistant or Medical Assistant course at an accredited institution or equivalent training; or EMT or Paramedic certification; or a Bachelor’s degree.

Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations:

•N/A

Additional Job Description

Benefits:

·Health, dental, vision, and life insurance

·Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan

·Paid time off and extended sick leave

·Paid Parental Leave

·Disability insurance plan options

·Continuous professional and clinical training

·Competitive pay

·Annual Merit Increase

·Wellbeing resources

·Tuition Reimbursement

·Employee perks and discounts

·Employee referral program

·Flexible schedule options

·Certification incentive program

Physical Requirements

•Ability to perform job functions while standing andsitting.Ability to perform job functions while walking and climb stairs. Ability to work from elevated areas. Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces.Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. Ability to bend and twist at the waist. Ability to squat and perform job functions. Ability to perform gross motor activities with fingers and hands.Ability to perform firm grasping with fingers and hands.Ability to reach overhead.Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders.Ability to use lower extremities for balance and coordination.Ability to reach in all directions.Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs. unassisted. Ability to lift/lower objects 50 lbs. from/to floor from/to 36 inches unassisted. Ability to lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. Ability to exert up to 50 lbs. of force.Examples include: To transfer a 100 lb. patient that cannot assist in the transfer requires 50 lbs. of force. For every 100 additional pounds, assistance will be required from another healthcare worker. 20 lbs. of force are needed to push a 400 lb. patient in a wheelchair on carpet. 25 lbs. of force are required to push a stretcher with a patient with one hand. Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes.Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance.Ability to match or discriminate between colors.Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction.Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements.Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations.Ability to work rotating shifts.Ability to work overtime as required.Ability to work in a latex safe environment.Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions.* *Ability to maintain good olfactory sensory function.* *Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required.

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.

Medical University of South Carolina participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees

About the Company

Medical University of South Carolina

Health sciences university in Charleston, SC

Medical University of South Carolina is a public academic health sciences university in Charleston, South Carolina. It offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degrees through six colleges in dental medicine, graduate studies, health professions, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy.

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