[Hiring] Psychiatry Triage Medical Assistant @Nystrom & Associates, Ltd.

Role Description

As a Certified Medical Assistant at Sagent Behavioral Health, you will play an important role in providing high-quality patient care to our Psychiatry patients. You will work alongside our Psychiatry providers, performing the following tasks:

• Returning phone calls to patients regarding the side effects of medication
• Refilling medication to area pharmacies
• Calling insurance companies for verification on medications
• Completing necessary authorizations for medications

There is little to no physical contact with patients in this role as such there are no weekends, evenings, holidays, or on-call hours!

Qualifications

• Certificate in Medical Assisting in State of IA
• Comfortable with little to no physical patient contact on a day-to-day basis
• Experience with mental health care preferred
• Knowledgeable about psychotropic medications
• Computer and tech-savvy; experience with Electronic Medical Records

Requirements

• Triaging calls from patients
• Taking calls for lab results
• Triaging incoming lab results, medical reports, refill requests, etc. to MD/APRN/PAs in a timely fashion
• Maintaining legible and organized patient records

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401k, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Reasonable caseload expectations and flexible scheduling
• Comfortable offices and clinic environment
• Free attendance for internal CEUs

Compensation

This is a non-exempt position. Total earnings for this position will range from $21.00 - $24.00 hourly. Actual compensation may be determined by various factors such as licensure, experience, skillset, internal equity, schedule and/or location. Estimates are factored on a 1.0 FTE. Employees in these positions are W2.