Medical Services Assistant (Multiple Vacancies)

Posting Summary
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Medical Services Assistant for the Clinical Practice locations at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The Medical Services Assistant performs routine clinical tasks and related administrative tasks as assigned to support effective and efficient office operations. Among the key duties of this position are the following: Creates and maintains health record information files and organizes as needed. Communicates with insurance providers and handles pre-authorizations and certifications as necessary. Communicates with patients and other providers per the instruction of the overseeing physician or health practitioner. Performs clinical tasks such as blood draws EKGs hearing and vision screens urinalysis and blood glucose testing. Prepares patient exam rooms arranges instruments and equipment and ensures a neat and sanitary environment. Performs and documents patient-related tasks such as rooms patients verifies patient information confirms purpose of visit obtains and records vitals signs and updates medical history. Supports practice needs with clerical tasks such as answering phones scheduling appointments verifying insurance collecting co-pays preparing lab requests.

Overview
New Jerseys academic health center Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students providing clinical care and conducting research all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick and collaborating university wide RBHS includes eight schools a behavioral health network and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research neuroscience advanced biotechnology and medicine environmental and occupational health and health care policy and aging research. Our faculty are teachers clinicians and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine dentistry pharmacy public health nursing biomedical research and the full spectrum of allied health careers. Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the stateat Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark Scotch Plains Somerset Stratford and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick Newarks University Hospital in Newark and other affiliates. Through this community of healers scientists and scholars Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Preferred Qualifications
Bilingual skills (English/Spanish) preferred; completion of medical interpreter training course preferred.