Medical Assistant LLT

UnitedHealth Group • Los Angeles, CA

187d • $20 - $35 • Onsite

About The Position

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum's Pacific West region is redefining health care with a focus on health equity, affordability, quality, and convenience. From California to Oregon and Washington, we are focused on helping more than 2.5 million patients live healthier lives and helping the health system work better for everyone. At Optum Pacific West, we care. We care for our team members, our patients, and our communities. Join our culture of caring and make a positive and lasting impact on health care for millions. It is time to take your career to the next level. As a Medical Assistant at Optum, you will learn from health care experts as you work side by side to provide care for patients in a clinical setting. You will build meaningful relationships with patients, their family members, health care providers, and office staff while providing high-quality direct patient care. We'll offer you more than talent, resources, and can-do culture. We'll provide you with a chance to improve the lives of others while helping improve the lives of millions.

Requirements

• Completion of a Medical Assistant program
• Current California X-Ray Technician Limited Permit
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or willing to obtain by date of hire
• 3+ years of experience working as a Medical Assistant

Nice To Haves

• Phlebotomy certification
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR) experience
• Bilingual English and Spanish

Responsibilities

• Delivers high-quality patient care through face-to-face, telephone, and electronic contact for the purpose of examination, treatment, monitoring, and preparation for diagnostic tests or procedures
• Collects and documents patient information, including vital signs, chief complaints, reviews of medications, allergies, health risk screening information, the status of extended care benefits, and other services
• Assists physicians and nursing personnel with injections, EKGs, phlebotomy, and other patient care procedures as directed
• Coordinates patient care as directed by physicians, company standards, and policies
• Assists with tasking, phone calls, and messages; documents all actions are taken
• Proper, concise, and complete EMR documentation and paper-based documentation for all assessments and procedures
• Prepares and cleans patient rooms and sets up instruments and equipment according to protocol while maintaining infection control
• Instructs patients on lab, radiology, and other procedure/testing preparations
• Performs Chest, Extremity and Torso-skeletal X-Ray procedures
• Participates in visit closure with patient, and clinician by explaining next steps for lab, x-ray, RFS, DME, etc.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Associate degree