Medical Administrative Assistants Medical Administrative Assistants have numerous of duties in an office setting. Medical Administrative Assistants can get a job in a doctor office or a hospital. Medical Assistants work more in the front of office and hospital assisting patients and checking them in. By knowing some Medical Assistants I know some of their duties are: scheduling patients, greeting patients, doing paper work, handling insurance problems or statements, and also supervising entry. Medical Administrative Assistants may be asked to do take the patient height or blood pressure. Medical assistants are sometime asked to buy the medical equipment needed in the office. When needed they may also work as the office manager. They conduct the doctor's schedule and type letters and bills (Occupational Outlook Handbook). Accounting has an enormous role in this field such as handling the insurance procedures and billing statements. Billing statements are responsibilities that a patient has gathered overtime. Having a great attitude is very much needed as a medical assistant because that job is in the customer service field. It is the medical assistant’s duty to take care of the fees in a medical facility therefore, knowing how to do accounting is a must know. Some of the duties involve collecting payments from the patient, tracking records of all the payments collected and filing forms out to take action against patients that have not made payments in a long time or just none at all that is why accounting is very important in this job. Accounting is recording financial relations, storing, organizing, retrieving, and presenting information in numerous reports which all goes back to one of the duties of a medical administration assis... ... middle of paper ... ...ch half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $21,080, and the top 10 percent earned more than $41,570. In conclusion Medical Assistants play a major role in the healthcare environment. They are doctors right hand man/woman and the help keep the office together and run smoothly. Medical Assistants will forever be needed, because every day a child is born and people are getting older. Medical Assistants care and their job is to provide good healthcare to patients. Work Cited Bureau of Labor Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Medical-assistants.htm Nelson, R. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_8120188_use-math-medical-assisting.html Occupational Outlook Handbook. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.healthpronet.org/ahp_month/05_03.html
Reliable and bilingual (Spanish) Medical Assistant who is an effective team player, enjoys talking and interacting with people, and always contributes positive energy to the workplace. Enthusiastic, hardworking, and committed to providing excellent patient care.
Standing at the starting line of the full marathon I felt anxious and nervous. Not only was I excited to accomplish this goal, but also I was nervous about the difficulty of this task. However, when I crossed the finish line and accomplished this goal, I realized that a new and possibly more difficult goal was about to start. This goal was not only to complete Physician Assistant School but it was to strive to excel in a career as a Physician Assistant in a rural primary care setting. Driven by my intrinsic personal traits of leadership, compassion, and commitment, I am motivated to achieve this goal of excelling in my career as a Physician Assistant.
The precise tasks performed by the different PAs are determined by the boundaries of factors like education, experience, state laws, facility policy and the supervising physician’s delegatory decisions. Each factor should be effectively constructed in order to deliver the efficient health care to the patients. State laws and regulations define the physician assistant’s scope of practice as well as serve to establish licensure and competency requirements.
2/ Based on the chosen what I made above, I think the top three professions involved wil be Doctor of medicine, nurse practitioner and Physician Assistant. The Physician Assistant can provide health care services under the direction and supervision of a doctor of medicine. Nurse practitioner can work together with doctors as a joint health care team. And the MD is also important because they can make diagnosis, treatment and correction, give an advise, or prescript for any human disease, injury, ailment,deformity, infirmity, physical or mental,pain, real or imaginary or other condition.
health care team who, with doctors, provide quality care to patients. In order to do that,
Lastly, Medical assistants are of great help to the physicians they work for. They make it possible for the practitioners to be effective in their practice. Just like all the other practitioners in the medical field, the medical assistants are expected to maintain high standards in the field. For the medical assistants this will include acting on the instructions given by the practitioners and adhering to the code of ethics as set by AAMA. The medical assistants are also expected to make sound decisions when faced with medical dilemmas. All this should be focused on giving the patient quality care.
The median salary of 2013 is $31,890("Medical Office Administrator: Job Description, Duties and Requirements." par. 4 and chart). Work is available in doctors’ offices, hospitals, laboratories, and health departments. You need to understand medical terminology and basic healthcare procedures. A medical assistant will also be responsible for managing information, medical and office purchases, and in some cases project management (par. 1). Your basic duties include answering phones, scheduling appointments, and organizing medical records. Processing insurance forms, preparing reports, scheduling of hospitalization or other procedures are important duties. Being able to do bookkeeping tasks- billing patients, preparing financial reports, processing software etc. - and being able to work with basic office machinery such as fax machines, credit card machines, and dictation equipment (par.
The healthcare field is a large organization filled with individuals that work towards the common goal of helping others. In the past several years’ health care organization have focused their attention in improving healthcare as a whole by focusing on factors such as access to primary care, control cost, increase efficiency and improve outcomes. A growing trend in trying to meet these challenges has been the use of physician assistants. According to Assistant, physician (PA). (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2015, from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8593 a physician assistant is a mid-level medical practitioner who works under the supervision of a licensed physician. Their education qualifies them to examine patients,
Un-Carrier Administrative Assistant position comes with a long list of responsibilities and tasks that happen daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly! To list them all would make my paragraph an extremely long check list. Here are a few tasks that are my responsibility as Administrative Assistant. Supporting the Senior Administrative Assistant as needed and filling in as the back-up during vacations. Managing calendars for Senior Managers; ensuring accuracy, flexibility and attending any required meetings to keep minutes and follow up as necessary. Scheduling meetings can include but not limited to anything from T-Time, Focus Groups, Huddles, TM gatherings and VP visits. Basic accounting will also be a requirement such as managing petty cash
Does anyone really know what their getting into when they graduate college and find a job in their chosen field? No one wants to think about the bad when starting a new job, the thrill of starting a career is a distraction. In medical assisting there are many challenges starting out such as, knowing exactly what you’re licensed to do after graduating. Author Rachelle Ballard explains in her article “Challenges of Medical Assisting” how one could get in trouble and even lose ones license if not working in the scope of practice.
The general purpose of being a medical assistant is that you are helping people that are in need of help. They also perform routine/ clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians and other practitioners running smoothly. Scheduling appointments for patients, billing, coding, etc. In this job you perform administrative and certain clinical duties under direction of a physician. Some tools/ skills that will be used daily is tools; hypodermic needle, blood pressure units, scope sets; skills; speaking, active listening, reading comprehension, monitoring, writing, active learning etc. Tasks and activities that will be performed
In Financial Accounting accountants prepare only the annual finance statement of any organization and shows if the organization is going in profit or loss. But in Management Accounting the managers have to take the future decisions and steps by looking at the past financial statements. So Management Accounting is very important because one wrong decision can transfer the organizations path or the future. Management Accountants have a responsibility to moral qualities which has to be kept intact by using their various skills, which will ultimately help the shareholders of any organization to retain profits earned from the money invested. Strategy formation by executing plans, budgeting and forecasting, risk management and decision making all these are required as skills in Management Accounting. In Management Accounting a manager has to have knowledge on both the financial and non-financial terms of the business and operational sides of the business. Both the financial and non-financial items are reported and analyzed by the managers to come to any decision. Again, the corporate social performance is also analyzed and a report is made on that. They have to take care of the other points also, i. e, profit of the organization, the final and end users, i. e ,customers and their satisfaction levels, employees of the organization, environmental matters related to the
Accounting is basically a service activity. Its purpose is to provide quantitative information that principally used by the managers, investors, tax authorities, and other decision makers to make the financial decisions within companies, organizations, and public agencies. Accounting is also widely known as the “language of business.” An accountant measures, communicates, and interprets financial activities. They prepare financial statements or reports for individuals, businesses, government agencies, or other non-profit organizations. They use the accounting systems to categorize the expenses and income to the typical groups. They also keep tract of the money received or paid out to see if the transactions are accurate and complete. Accountants are familiar with the computer operation. They use the computer...
Managerial accountants need to use accounting information in seeing to it that they are able to plan, evaluate the company performance, manage risks and control the business operations in a manner that is deemed beneficial to the business as a whole (Caplan, n. d). This can be achieved through: having high standards of ethics in all situations; employing the techniques of management reports, budgetary control, and analysis of fund flows and financial statements; making prudent capital investment decisions; and maintaining continuous quality control systems.
An accountant makes sure that the Nation’s firms are run efficiently, the public records are kept accurately, and that taxes are paid properly and on time (“Accountants and Auditors”). Accounting is the study of how a business tracks their income, assets, expenses, and many other things for a period of time. They also do many other things like quality management, tax strategy, and health care benefits management (“Welcome to Careers in Accounting”). An accountant is crucial to the success of a business, without one the business tends to fail.