Certified Medical Assistant - Smyrna

Job Title: Medical Assistant

Location:  Smyrna, GA

Pay Rate:  $21-23/hr (pay based on experience)

Job Overview

• Provide clinical support and assistance to both providers and patients to manage patient clinic flow in an efficient and positive manner.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Once the patient has been marked checked in, take the patient back to an available exam room
• Triage the visit and record all patient vital signs
• Request records on patients (if applicable)
• Access imaging for provider review
• At the end of the visit, work with the assigned provider to ensure all referrals, orders, and prescriptions are accurate and entered into both the chart and/or on the patient’s passport
• Call in prescriptions or dispense medications to Lien and Workman’s Comp patients as prescribed
• Perform medication prior authorizations as ordered through Cover My Meds
• Perform brain scope testing as ordered
• Scan in patient Review of Systems & PHQ-9 forms
• Add imaging reports into the patient’s chart
• Check emails and voicemails from patients, and reply within 24 hours
• Review, take action, and address all faxes assigned in the fax inbox
• Review all open orders and referrals in the assigned inbox to ensure results have been added prior to marking addressed
• Scan in and file away all dispensed medication invoices
• Tracking all sample medications to ensure adequate stock levels
• Clean and sanitize all patient rooms and equipment

*For Procedure Room MA’s, the tasks below are in addition to the above*

• Prepare consents for injections
• Prepare patients for injections (urine, diabetic, etc.)
• Signed injection consents must be scanned in by the end of clinic
• Print prescriptions for surgical patients and have ready the physician
• Once signed, ensure Rx is scanned into the patient’s chart before the end of clinic
• Pull PDMP as needed
• Provide the patient’s surgery notes, demographics, and insurance information via fax to his office.
• For those patients who require collars or a brace, enter an order and fax demographics, progress notes and insurance information.