Administrative Assistant, Medicine

Job description

Position Summary To perform a variety of secretarial/administrative duties for physician(s) through extensive patient contact. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned. CLINICAL: Make patient appointments: Gather information from referring physician(s): Get films printed and pick them up Arrange and coordinate all preoperative appointments Contact primary care physician and request necessary referrals for testing Gather all results from preoperative appointments before surgery Fax information to PASS unit: Schedule patients’ surgery: Pre-certify all surgical procedures: Send surgical orders to the PASS unit Other miscellaneous duties (medical records requests, etc.) BILLING: Gather demographics on patients for billing (if done at other hospital) Find all diagnosis codes for all surgical and office bills Verify that all surgeries have been billed Keep list of all surgical procedures and ICU billing performed by physician(s) File all patient information: ADMINISTRATIVE: Complete applications for physician(s) to get privileges to other hospitals Keep t...