Medical Transcriptionist

Overview

Supports physician staff by representing physicians; screening and sorting mail, documents, and telephone calls; scheduling patient appointments and arranging referrals; billing patients and third-party payers; controlling accounts receivables; transcribing dictation; preparing medical reports, patient histories, operative notes, manuscripts, and correspondence; maintaining office files and patient records.

Responsibilities

• Ensures physician productivity by maintaining calendars; scheduling patient appointments; physician consultations; professional meetings, conferences; teleconferences, and travel.
• Produces information by transcribing dictation, preparing medical reports and summaries, patient histories, operative notes, manuscripts and correspondence; planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling projects.
• Provides historical reference by developing and utilizing filing and retrieval systems; maintaining patient records; recording meeting discussions.
• Generates revenues by completing direct patient and third-party billing; monitoring accounts receivables; initiating collection calls and reminders.
• Secures information by completing database back-ups.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Maintains office supplies inventory by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt.
• Keeps office equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Maintains quality results by following and enforcing standards.
• Serves and protects the health care community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations standards.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.
• Enhances physician office reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in a relevant field
• Two years of experience as a Secretary in a clinical setting
• Relevanr experience in an IVF facility
• Ability to read and communicate effectively in English, Additional languages preferred
• Shorthand and Dictaphone skills are required
• Maintain a typing speed
• Advanced computer knowledge