4 Feb
2023
Full-Time Medical Administrative Assistant – Johannesburg
Job Description
The position of Medical Office Assistant requires someone with relevant expertise. A medical office assistant’s duties include patient greeting, appointment scheduling, co-payment collection, and insurance verification.
Job Title : Medical Administrative Assistant
Location : Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Salary : $ 29.85 per hour.
Company : Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates
Job Type : Full-Time
Qualifications:
- As needed, you may also be asked to undertake clerical or administrative duties such as filing, greeting visitors, arranging appointments, entering data, and registering patients.
- The clinic always responds quickly to any messages sent by Medical Dimensions regarding research coding/billing.
- Sets up doctor’s visits for those who need to see specialists.
- Communicate with directors, managers, and committee members through typing memos, letters, position summaries, flowcharts, graphs, deviation reports, and policies and procedures.
- Performs routine maintenance on all medical and laboratory equipment and supplies, including troubleshooting, cleaning, stocking, and reordering when necessary.
- Charges are posted, paperwork is finished, and copays, deductibles, and account balances are collected.
- helps complete the “end of the day balancing/closing” procedure and get deposits ready for courier pickup.
- The calls are sorted by importance and urgency and redirected if necessary.
- Provide a warm welcome, check patients out, set up follow-up appointments, and gather necessary data.
- Assign administrative duties such as filing, faxing, photocopying, collating, and project assembly as needed.
Skills:
- We propose that you only consider candidates with at least three years of experience as medical office assistants.
- Candidates must be comfortable working with computers, printers, and fax machines.
- It is preferable to have completed one year of medical assistant training and have a high school diploma.
- Ability to work under pressure and make sound judgments is a must.
- demands self-motivation, critical thinking, and the ability to work with minimal oversight.