Administrative Assistant II - RDOG Ophthalmology, Westwood

Join our team at the Department of Ophthalmology and provide essential administrative support for the Retinal Disorders & Ophthalmic Genetics clinic in Westwood! Your role will be pivotal in ensuring smooth patient care coordination.Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Obtain authorizations for tests, injections, and office visits
• Process referrals
• Verify insurances
• Provide support in the patient check in/out and scheduling process
  

Salary Range: $25.60-36.33 Hourly

• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of various insurance plans such as PPOs, HMOs, EPOs, Medicare and Medi-cal.
• Skill in establishing, coordinating and maintaining patient and administrative files.
• Skill in operating computer terminal for processing and accessing patient data.
  
• Ability to act as liaison between physician and patients and their families, using good verbal and written communication skills.
• Typing skills to prepare correspondence with speed/accuracy.
• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine medical and business correspondence.
• Skill in setting priorities which accurately reflect relative importance of job responsibilities.
• Ability to work independently and follow through with assignments with minimal (or no) direction from supervisor.
• Ability to coordinate activities to guarantee timely completion of teamwork (usually under high pressure).
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.