Practice Assistant
Location:?Boston, MA
Hours:?Monday – Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Pay:?$22- $24/hr?
Job Description
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, and strong oral and written communication skills are required.
- Schedules all necessary consults, diagnostic tests, visits and procedures according to guidelines. Organizes all tests and consult notes for review
- Participates in referral management process as cross coverage.
- Obtains insurance approval for?clinic visits when necessary.?
- Gathers and organizes all clinical information related to patients.?
- Provides information that is requested by insurers and patients including, information for procedure approvals, all disability requests, and medical record requests.
- Participates in and schedules team meetings. Collates and distributes written minutes?as needed.
- Maintains clinic and procedure schedules.
- Communicates with patients and referring physicians to facilitate the above, and to answer questions related to the administrative processes.
- Scans data into Epic to facilitate all of the above tasks.
- Provides administrative support to?nurses including, but not limited to, fax triage, placement of telephone calls to patients, laboratories and referring providers. Documents telephone encounters and enters staff messages in Epic as appropriate.
- Provide assistance/cross-coverage for all programmatic administrative tasks as needed.?
Administration
- Send out patient and care team letters in a timely manner.
- Set up and or assist with program meetings as needed.
- Attend, take minutes and take attendance for the program selection meetings as needed.
- Participate in all staff meeting to share details with staff pertaining to your purview.
- Put together onboarding material for new hires.
- Obtains all necessary medical records and places all necessary orders in conjunction with the Nurse Coordinator(s).
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