Front desk medical secretary/executive assistant for a busy single-doctor psychiatry practice. Prior experience in a medical office is preferred. Good people skills required as dealing with a psychiatric population. Duties include:

o Phone: making appointments, taking requests for medication refills, taking messages for the doctor, calling patients to confirm following day appointments.

o Keeping the doctor’s schedule: inputting appointments, printing schedule for the following day and pulling those patient charts.

o Welcoming patients and receiving payments.

o Inputting prescription requests into computer program (including I-STOP).

o Filing prior authorization for prescriptions with insurance companies.

o Filing patient paperwork, maintaining patient charts.

o Preparing insurance company and outside provider requests for patient records.

o Preparation of forms and letters requested by patients, doctor’s correscpondence.

o Interface with outside billing service.

o Help maintain doctor’s credentialing and licenses.

o Must have good people skills.

Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. with a half-hour unpaid lunch break (40-hour work week).

Paid holidays (6) are New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Personal days two weeks (10 days) used for sick days or other, and roll over to the following year.

No benefits.

Pay is negotiable.

Contact

Edith Lawrence

Office Manager

Timothy L. Lawrence, M.D.

edithlawrence1@gmail.com