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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality low cost innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brighams unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings including primary care specialty care behavioral and mental health and urgent care both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy imaging cardiac testing and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.
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We are located at 101 Main Street Suite 107 Medford MA 02155.
Job Summary
We are seeking a full- full time 40-hour clinic/practice assistant to support our practice onsite Monday- Friday.
Mondays from 7:00am-3:30pm
Tuesdays through Fridays from 8:00am-5:00pm (shifts are stagged accordingly)
Our Clinic/Practice Assistants play an integral part in the operations of our community-based physician practices. Dedicated to administrative support these Assistants serve as the gatekeepers of our practices and ensure that our team is delivering the highest quality experience that exceeds our patients expectations.
As the only Clinic/Practice Assistant for the specialty this role is a unique opportunity to work autonomously as the epicenter of the department while also collaborating with various members of the multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
Responsibilities
Leading up to the patient visit Practice Assistants schedule all appointments and obtain Prior Authorizations from insurances when needed for specific exams.
During the patients visit the focus is check-in which includes greeting patients answering all of their questions and assisting with any pre-visit paperwork/forms.
At the conclusion of the visit during check-out Practice Assistants are tasked with the completion of forms collection of co-payments and scheduling follow-up appointments tests and/or procedures.
Other duties include fielding all incoming telephone calls and triaging appropriately monitoring patient flow and waiting room activity and providing general support to practice leadership clinicians and peers.
Education
High School Diploma or Equivalent required
Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree
No
Licenses and Credentials
Experience
healthcare office experience 0-1 year required
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Basic Proficiency with all Office Suite.
- Knowledge of office operations and standards and understanding of office procedures including filing copying scanning printing and faxing.
- Ability to use phone system and manage more non-routine phone calls and solve routine issues as appropriate.
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience and Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents to correspond and communicate with others clearly and effectively (including composing/editing e-mail memos and letters) and to take complete and accurate messages.
- Managing ones own time and the time of others.
- Well organized and good time management skills to manage multiple tasks effectively follow established protocols and work within systems.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Our philosophy is that if a new hire has strong customer service skills with a genuine passion for patient care everything else can be taught.
Onsite
101 Main Street
40
Regular
Day (United States of America)
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