Job Description
Summary
The Medical Assistant II plays a crucial role in the healthcare setting by managing various administrative and clinical tasks. The key responsibilities include scheduling appointments, ensuring effective communication with healthcare providers, and verifying insurance information with both patients and insurance companies. Additionally, the MA II assists in patient examinations, recording vital signs, and maintaining accurate patient records. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently to support the smooth operation of the healthcare facility.
Job Duties
- Facilitates and conducts peer-to-peer evaluations with health plans for infusion medications.
- Engages in dialogue with clinical staff, physicians, pharmacy, and insurance verification teams regarding processes for infusion patients and medication approvals.
- Works closely with health plans, patients, and pharmacies to manage specialty pharmacy benefits, and coordinates the scheduling and delivery of medications.
- Ensures patients have follow-up appointments with their ordering providers every six months, as per insurance guidelines.
- Manages the health plan appeal process for denials of infusion medications.
- Schedules patients for infusion visits and assists with rooming patients, including stocking supplies.
- Reviews the daily schedule for patient arrivals, escorts patients to the infusion suite, takes vitals, and asks pertinent questions related to their care plans.
- Disinfects each infusion chair and equipment to prepare for the next patient.
- Attends to patient needs by offering snacks, drinks, warm blankets, and other comfort measures during treatment. Assists patients around the infusion suite as needed.
- Provides excellent customer service to patients.
- Manages the stocking of clinic supplies and assists with ordering supplies weekly or as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED and completion of a Medical Assistant Training program through an accredited institution.
- Two years of relevant experience.
- Current certification as a Medical Assistant through an accredited professional organization (AAMA, AMT, ARMA, NCCT,NHA, NAHP, or AMCA).
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through American Heart Association.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.