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About this Medical Assistant role at Consensus Health

Consensus Health · Onsite · Elise Carman MD

Located in:

Montclair, New Jersey 07042

The Medical Assistant is a key role in our practice. They create a strong first impression for our patients and ensure they feel cared for by our practice. They prepare a patient for the doctor's evaluation and assists clinical providers with patient examinations by obtaining and documenting vital signs, past medical and social history and updating electronic medical records (EMR).

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to:

  • Assist professional nursing staff by providing direct patient care. Prepares charts, takes temperature, pulse, performs screenings, blood pressure and respiration and other duties as assigned.
  • Assist physicians by maintaining practice workflow, organizing exam rooms, maintaining, and ordering supplies, screening patient requests and other duties as assigned such as blood draws, POC testing as directed by Provider.
  • Follows instructions closely and reports observations and symptoms indicative of the patient’s reactions to treatments and patient complaints.
  • Responsible for workflow in practice to ensure timely appointments and decreased wait-times to see Provider.
  • Assist in scheduling accurate initial evaluations, follow up appointments and cancellations.
  • Initiates all appointment reminder calls in a professional and courteous manner, projecting appropriate language and tone of voice.
  • Demonstrates effective oral, listening, and written communication skills that facilitate positive customer relationships and staff interaction in the delivery of care.
  • Prioritizes duties and responsibilities and completes them accurately and in a timely fashion.
  • Maintains confidentiality and demonstrates responsible judgment by updating knowledge, referring problems through appropriate channels, and observing the policies and procedures.
  • Obtain and enter patient history, chief complaint, and update the medication list into the electronic medical record.
  • Maintains compliance with legal requirements, HIPAA, OSHA, and company policies.
  • Assisting with other office duties including answering phones, faxing, filing, etc.
  • Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders, verifying receipt, sorting, and storing.
  • Restocking exam/procedure rooms.
  • Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations
  • Help answer phones, filing, greeting patients and any other administrative task. Maintains infection control/safety guidelines and confidentiality policies.
  • Perform other duties/tasks as requested by providers, coordinators, and management in accordance with office procedures/policies
  • Enhances practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
  • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications or Education, Training and Experience

  • High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of medical office experience required
  • Two year degree from accredited Medical Assistant program with certification preferred
  • Familiar with Patient Care
  • CPR certified
  • Experience on EHR and EMR systems, Athena preferred 
  • Knowledge of pre-authorizations and referrals
  • Completed an accredited Medical Assistant Program
  • Obtain certification in 90 days

Knowledge and Skills/Expected Competencies

• Ability to clearly communicate medical information to professional practitioners and/or the general public.

  • Ability to maintain confidential information
  • Good interpersonal skills, sense of urgency, being proactive and ownership for one’s work.
  • Dependable, with strong work ethic and extremely high degree personal integrity.
  • Ability to deal with multiple interruptions on a continual basis that must be met with a friendly exchange with others.
  •  Helpful and constructive view of working with others to achieve positive outcomes.

Taking responsibility and being accountable for your own actions

Featured Benefits:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401K with automatic employer contribution.
  • PTO and Paid Holidays.
  • Company paid Life Insurance.
  • Access to voluntary short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Access to additional life insurance.
  • Access to a variety of Wellness programs. 

The compensation range for this position is $18.00/hour– $26.00/hour. Compensation is based on the level and requirements of the role. 

Salary within our ranges may also be determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location, as required by the role, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data

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How this Medical Assistant salary compares

This role pays $54,080/yrin line with the typical range for Medical Assistant roles.

$43,680 median $50,679 $62,660

Typical range $46,727–$56,836/yr, from 3,687 comparable Medical Assistant listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Medical Assistant salary insights →

About Consensus Health

Consensus Health is a leading physician-owned and -governed medical group, comprised of New Jersey-based independent primary care providers and specialty doctors. Consensus Health affords its member physicians clinical autonomy, allowing them to truly focus on the delivery of high levels of patient care within the local markets they serve throughout the state. With more than 150 independent providers and nearly 50 practices comprising its medical group, Consensus Health’s presence spans 17 of the state’s 20 counties. Retaining clinical autonomy is a key competitive advantage that sets Consensus Health apart throughout New Jersey and is among the reasons today’s New Jersey-based independent p

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