Medical Office Specialist

Planned Parenthood Great Plains•Pittsburg, KS

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Planned Parenthood Great Plains is seeking multiple Medical Office Specialists to help open a new health center in Pittsburg, Kansas. The Medical Office Specialist participates in a team approach to patient care, requiring effective communication with patients from diverse backgrounds and ages, and supporting their healthcare experience with compassion and excellent care. Responsibilities include greeting and checking in patients, verifying insurance plans and coverage, and other payment sources to help patients understand their financial responsibility. The role involves entering data into the electronic health record system (EPIC), preparing deposit slips, and running end-of-day reports for bank deposits as instructed by the Health Center Manager. PPGP requires COVID-19 vaccination for all team members, unless granted medical or religious exemption, as a condition of employment.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent
One year experience in a medical office setting
Familiarity with medical terminology
Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Email.
Effectively interacts with co-workers and patients with diverse ethnic backgrounds, religious views, political affiliations, cultural backgrounds, lifestyles and sexual orientations and treat individuals with respect and dignity.
Demonstrate ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Nice To Haves

Experience using an EHR system is preferred.

Responsibilities

Performs front desk functions including answering phones and greeting and checking-in patients.
Collects health plan authorization, insurance cards with picture ID’s, completes appropriate forms and obtains signatures per PPGP policy.
Verifies patient’s insurance, determines patient payment responsibility at the time of service and posts all charges and payments received at the time of service to the billing system.
Enters data accurately for patient visits and fees in EMR/EHR to increase accuracy and efficiency of claims process.
Prepares deposit slips, runs end-of-day reports for delivery of daily deposit to bank as instructed by the Health Center Manager.
Adheres to all money handling procedures, collecting co-pays and other patient payments.
Accompany providers during patient visits to assist in documenting the provider assessment and examination.
Document patient history, physical exams, assessments, diagnostic results, medical procedures, and treatment plans.
Interact with your provider to capture accurate diagnoses, pharmacy prescriptions and patient follow-up instructions.
Understand the flow of patient encounters in your facility to assist the care team in making patient visits as efficient as possible.
Follow the progress of labs, imaging studies, and other real time patient data.
Perform a variety of other non-clinical tasks dependent on your provider’s requests.
Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and participating in relevant webinars.
Understands and complies with Child and Minor Abuse identification and reporting.
Maintains confidentiality of all agency information, employee nonpublic personal information (NPI) and personal health information (PHI), as well as records directly or indirectly identifying any person currently or formerly receiving services from PPGP.
Complies with regulations regarding patient rights.
Adheres to PPGP policies regarding professionalism, minimizing patient wait time in the health center and on the phone, adhering to the system to address patient complaints, and implementing patient satisfaction surveys following each visit.
Supports and carries out PPGP’s Mission: upholding the standards of high quality sexual and reproductive healthcare; provides education that promotes informed proud and authentic sexuality; influences the culture through advocacy to ensure equality in reproductive and sexual decision making.