Senior Medical Secretary Per Diem

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Performs secretarial and administrative support services for assigned physicians/faculty/medical service line chiefs where the work requires a thorough knowledge of medical office procedures and UMMHC business and academic administrative practices. Duties involve interfaces with faculty; medical staff, patients, and various UMMHC administrative management and staff, which require considerable tact and diplomacy. May coordinate associated medical office activities and assigned staff.

Major Responsibilities:

• Schedules and coordinates patient visits, medical procedures for both inpatients and outpatients with admitting, the OR, testing centers, pre-admission, etc.
• Greets visitors and/or patients. Ascertains their needs, and provides standard information as required. Fosters quality customer service.
• Receives and addresses patient-care related phone calls. Provides routine information on procedures and standard policies, refers matters to appropriate person within department.
• Issues and verifies patients' managed care referrals.
• Registers patients for each patient visit, utilizing computer-based patient registration/scheduling system.
• Verifies patient's insurance coverage and eligibility.
• Collects co-payments from patients for visits, maintains records, and makes daily cash deposit.
• May perform on-site charge entry processes, utilizing computer-based systems.

Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

• High School diploma.
• 6-12 months additional specialized medical secretarial/medical office training.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

• 2-3 years of medical secretarial/administrative support experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.