Clinical Assistant- Guthrie Cancer Center- Per Diem

Position Summary:

Assists in all aspects of office operations to include reception, patient interaction, scheduling patients, venipuncture for labs, and patient vital signs.  Assigning ICD‐10 codes to patient charts, working with reimbursement programs and precertification’s for drugs, testing and treatments.

Education, License & Cert:

Graduate of an approved clinical/medical assisting program or High School Diploma with prior clinical assistance experience. Basic Life Support encouraged but not required.

Experience:

Prior experience as a clinical assistant preferred or experience with patient care in or outside of the office setting.

Essential Functions:

• 1. Supports providers, nurses, and other cancer center staff with patient care. 
• 2. Performs routine phlebotomies on patients scheduled for lab work. 
• 3. Maintains patient charts and ensures appropriate documentation.   
• 4. Ensures appropriate stock of supplies, equipment, and linen in patient exam rooms. 
• 5. Obtains preauthorization on medication, procedures, and testing as required. 
• a. Directs patients to and from examining room and prepares patients for examination by provider and follow up infusion as required. 
• b. Obtains vital signs, heights, and weights and documents in correct patient charts. 
• a. Obtains labs and results and promptly gets them to ordering provider. b. Performs good infection control practices. 
• a. Ensures all documentation is complete in patients’ charts. 
• b. Helps answer telephone calls from patients, directs calls as needed, and documents call and intervention in patient chart. 
• a. Stocks exam rooms and medication room with supplies. 
• b. Distributes laundry daily to exam rooms and changing area. 
• a. Ensures authorization is completed on all required testing and medication prior to date of medication, procedure, or test.

Other Duties:

Other duties as assigned.

The pay ranges from $17.00-$25.16 per hour

Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.