Administrative Assistant

A successful incumbent is one who enjoys a high level of data entry work while paying very close attention to details. They are able to provide clear feedback to the manager about challenges and barriers experienced in the process. They offer ideas for solutions. They always keep the patient as the focus. This candidate would find great success in knowing that each referral entered and worked each day was directly making a difference in a patient’s life.

This position serves as a member of the Ambulatory Access Services department, which is responsible to support the systems and operations of ambulatory practices, professional service and hospital departments.

Workflows supported by the AAS department include: patient appointment scheduling, new patient visit preparation, referrals entry and triage. The department supports its customers in workflows that start when the external referral is received to when the patient initially calls to obtain services, through their arrival in clinic.

Day To Day Responsibilities

• Process incoming referrals
• Process incoming referrals and verify that the information received is accurate and complete
• Verify correct information for referral based on Intake Matrix
• Route referral in Epic to correct department work queue
• Identify initial medical records needed
• Use scheduling Matrix to identify medical records that are needed for medical review or patient visit
• Send initial request(s) for those records
• Communication
• Communicate with referring practice if information is incomplete, inaccurate or additional information is needed
• Communicate with supervisor/manager if information
• Monitoring and quality assessment
• Identify barriers to referrals being processed appropriately
• Identify system or process improvements
• Keep management apprised of issues, challenges and barriers
• Diagnosis matrix
• Regularly review and recommend updates to the Intake Matrix
• Ensure accuracy of details on the Matrix. Work with Supervisor if updates are needed

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 2 years exp working in ambulatory health care clinic OR
• Associate degree plus 4 years exp working in ambulatory health care clinic OR
• HS Diploma plus 6 years exp working in ambulatory health care clinic.
• 1 yr exp in medical office setting, including high volume of patient phone calls, high level of multi tasking, and scheduling.
• Basic computer keyboarding skills required.
• Proficient computer skills including word processing.
• Extremely high level of attention to detail
• Preferred: Exp using Epic