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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.
The vision for this role is to support both the Pain and Spine specialties within Newton-Wellesley Hospital Ambulatory Care Center (159 Wells Avenue in Newton).
At the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Spine Center we work as a multidisciplinary team, with an emphasis on communication and coordination. Our specialists treat the full range of spinal disorders that affect the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar areas of the spine. After a careful evaluation with diagnostic and imaging tests, we create a personalized treatment plan based on your needs and goals.
At the Pain Management Service at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, we care for people with many types of pain caused by a number of conditions, including acute pain that comes on suddenly and is caused by a specific injury or condition, chronic pain and cancer-related pain. We use a compassionate, team-based approach to diagnosing, relieving, and treating acute and chronic pain. We tailor our multimodal and multidisciplinary treatment plans to your unique condition and needs. Our top priority is to reduce or eliminate pain and help patients function as independently as possible.
Job Summary
We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Clinic/Practice Assistant to support the Pain and Spine team onsite Monday through Friday from 8:30am- 5:00pm.
Clinic/Practice Assistants play an integral part in the operations of our community-based physician practices. Dedicated to administrative support, these Assistants serve as the gatekeepers of our practices and ensure that teams are delivering the highest quality experience, exceeding our patients' expectations.
Leading up to the patient visit, Coordinators schedule all appointments, conduct reminder outreach, verify insurance, and obtain Prior Authorizations when needed.
During the patient's visit, the focus is check-in, which includes greeting patients, answering all of their questions, collecting co-payments, and assisting with any pre-visit paperwork/forms.
At the conclusion of the visit, during check-out, Assistants are tasked with scheduling follow-up appointments, tests, and/or procedures.
Other duties include fielding all incoming telephone calls and triaging appropriately, handling in-basket messages, monitoring patient flow and waiting room activity, and providing general support to practice leadership, clinicians, and peers.
Qualifications
Education
High School Diploma or Equivalent required
Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
No
Licenses and Credentials
Experience
office experience 3-5 years required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Remote Type
Onsite
Work Location
159 Wells Avenue
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
EEO Statement:
Newton-Wellesley Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.
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