1 Medical Secretary Job in South Kingstown, RI
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Brown Physicians, Inc. is Hiring a Medical Secretary Near South Kingstown, RI
Principal Duties And Responsibilities
- Answer and refer telephone calls or other inquiries to ensure accurate and timely communications are facilitated.
- Greet patients and visitors promptly. Assist patients and family members or other customers with concern and empathy; respect their confidentiality and privacy and communicate with them in a courteous and respectful manner.
- Confirm patient appointments in advance of visit.
- Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary.
- Schedule patient appointments.
- Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the office (organizing, housekeeping, assisting others, etc.).
- Check patients into clinical office by updating patient demographic information and “arriving” the patient in the software. Verify insurance information at each patient visit.
- Review encounter forms to ensure accurate diagnostic/treatment codes are applied.
- Collect payments (co-pays) and deductibles for services rendered when applicable (at check in or at check out.)
- Collect patient balances.
- Reconcile encounter forms and payment collection on a daily basis.
- Document and log unused encounter forms as directed by the Patient Accounting Office.
- Check patients out of the clinical site by processing the paperwork, scheduling follow up visits and entering the charge for the visit.
- Photocopy, fax and file as required.
- Process outgoing mail and distribute incoming mail.
- Type correspondence as directed.
- Filing as required.
- Prepare initial patient medical record.
- Respond to routine requests for information in a timely manner following procedure/guidelines. Reduce inquiries to others when information is readily available through other means.
- Maintain equipment and report broken or missing equipment to manager as soon as possible.
- Willingly learns new skills, procedures, protocols as they are introduced; attends training and masters new software programs.
- May perform duties of Medical Assistant.
- Maintain work area in a neat and orderly fashion.
- Attend meetings as required.
- Demonstrate flexibility to perform duties wherever volume deems it necessary within the office.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Knowledge of medical office procedures and terminology and medical insurance policies, procedures and requirements.
- Knowledge of grammar, spelling and punctuation to document patient information and type correspondence.
- Skill in greeting patients and answering telephones with a strong customer service focus.
- Skill in operating a variety of office equipment such as copier, facsimile machine and computer.
- Ability to speak clearly and concisely.
- Ability to read, understand and follow oral and written instructions given in English.
- Ability to sort and file by alphabetic or numeric systems.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers (patients, physicians, coworkers, supervisor, etc.).
EOE/F/M/Vet/Disabled
Brown Dermatology requires employees to be vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment, subject to accommodation for medical exemptions.
Job Summary
Full Time
$40k-49k (estimate)
07/18/2024
08/11/2024
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