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Hillcrest Healthcare System

Medical Assistant / MA General Surgery

Hillcrest Healthcare System

Location
Onsite (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Employment
Full-time
Level
Entry Level
Posted 5 days ago

About the Role

Hillcrest Healthcare System's Utica Park Clinic seeks a Medical Assistant to support General Surgery patients through clinical and administrative tasks. The role involves managing medical records, taking vital signs, sterilizing instruments, and coordinating insurance authorizations within a multi-specialty medical group.

Skills

Patient care Electronic medical record Medical coding Vital signs monitoring Sterilization Inventory management Insurance authorization Referral coordination Microsoft office Clinical documentation Patient intake Medical terminology

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Health benefits
  • Tuition assistance

Perks

  • Career growth
  • Wellness resources
  • Financial well-being

Full job details

Join our team as a day shift, full-time, General Surgery Medical Assistant in Tulsa, OK.

 

Why Join Us? 

 

Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better 

  • Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being. 
  • People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for. 
  • Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care. 

Get to Know Your Team: 

  • Utica Park Clinic, founded in 1982, is a multi-specialty medical group with more than 300 employed physicians and advanced practice providers representing over 25 specialties across 80 plus clinics in Oklahoma.

Learn About a Day in the Life of a Medical Assistant:

The Medical Assistant provides superior patient care and performs administrative and delegated clinical tasks that support patients in a clinic-based environment as part of a care team led by the physician and/or advanced practice provider.

 

  • Enters, maintains, and reports all medical history, medical coding, and files claims using an Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
  • Patient visit support that may include: Greeting patients, and escorting patient to exam room and/or taking patients’ vital signs, and other applicable medical information to effectively support the reason for the patients visit and recommended treatment.
  • Sterilizes and prepares medical instruments. Ensures patient exam rooms are disinfected, orderly, and ready for incoming patients. Provides patients with privacy, comfort, safety and hygiene.
  • Assists in maintaining inventory and stocking supplies, instruments and equipment for all exam rooms.
  • Maintains appropriate paperwork for inventory control and reviews orders received for completeness.
  • Addresses and requests referrals and other insurance authorizations in addition to passing along patient information for prescription, x-ray or lab requisitions to necessary parties. This includes calls to pharmacies, hospitals, and labs.

Job Requirements: 

 

  • High school diploma or GED equivalent.
  • Basic Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Microsoft Office knowledge.
  • BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care.

 

Preferred Job Requirements:

 

  • Associate’s degree.
  • Graduate from an accredited medical assistant/medical technologist school/program or two years of MA experience.
  • Current national certification as a Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or Registered Medical Assistant (RMA).