Samantha herrera

Administrative Responsibilities

• Schedule appointments for patients
• Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic
• Verifying insurance eligibility
• Record patients medical history, vital statistics, and information such as test results in medical records
• Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for test and or admission
• Perform general office duties such as answering telephones, taking dictation, and completing insurance forms
• Keep financial records and perform other bookkeeping duties, collecting copayments
• Signing up and activating HAP cards for eligible patients for family pact (Health Access Programs)

Clinical Responsibilities

• Capturing and noting vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and respirations
• Pass patients to examination room and prepare them for the physician
• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician
• Collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing
• Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, and physicians instructions to patients
• Help physician examine and treat patients, handing them instructions and materials or performing such as task as giving injections and removing sutures
• Prepare treatment rooms for patients examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies
• Change dressing on wounds
• Inventory and order medical, lab, and office supplies and equipment
• Perform routine laboratory test and sample analyses
• Set up medical laboratory equipment
• Operate electrocardiogram (EKG), and other equipment to administer routine diagnostic test

Administrative Responsibilities

• Greeting patients when walking in
• Checking insurances
• Answering patients phone calls
• Setting up appointments
• Checking emails
• Making copies and new files
• Translating from English to Spanish

Administrative Responsibilities

• Scheduling and coordinating patient appointments
• Assisting patients on the phone and in person
• Communicating patient messages to doctors
• Entering and updating patient information in EMR systems
• Verifying insurance coverage for procedures and medications
• Explaining medical procedures to patients

Clinical Responsibilities

• Capturing and noting vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and respirations
• Updating patients medical and family history such as weight changes, surgeries, medications, diagnoses, allergies, concerns, births, deaths, and family medical conditions
• Lab safety and collection- urinalysis, venipuncture, use of centrifuge for serum separation, etc
• Patients education
• Cleaned and prepared examination room for patients