Lumiere Cosmetic Vein Center, P.A.
Medical Assistant
Cape Coral, Florida•Full-time
$17 - $19 hourly
$17 - $19 hourly
About the Job
The ideal Medical Assistant candidate is positive, energetic, intelligent, highly dependable, organized and an excellent multi-tasker. The MA is responsible for assisting the provider with patient visits, including both consultative and surgical procedures. Rooming patients, obtaining vitals, and assisting with surgical procedures on a daily basis are the primary responsibilities of our medical assistants. Experience with E-Clinical works EMR is a plus. At least one year of medical assisting experience in veins or vascular, cosmetics, dermatology, plastic surgery or other specialty providers office is required.
Primary Duties Include:
Primary Duties Include:
- Assisting our provider in delivering high quality patient focused care to all of our patients.
- Rooming patients, obtaining vitals and entering data into the patients chart.
- Setting up for procedures, cosmetic treatments and sterile field.
- Providing side by side assistance to our provider during surgical office procedures.
- Verbally giving pre and post operative instructions to the patient.
- Reviewing patient's medical history.
- Maintaining notes in our EMR system.
- Obtaining appropriate consents both electronic and paper.
- Sending prescription requests to our provider for sign off.
- Performing call backs.
- Performing EKG's (training can be provided).
- Some phlebotomy as needed (training will be provided).
- Wound care including unna boots (training will be provided).
- Cleaning and turning over patient rooms throughout the shift.
- Performing body contouring treatments (training will be provided).
- Assisting patients with medical grade skincare product questions and concerns (training will be provided).
- Performing Injections IM (training will be provided).
- Assisting with verifying eligibility and benefits and or obtaining authorizations for office procedures as needed.
- Communicating in office through EMR actions and documenting patient telephone calls as needed.
- Assisting with answering patient calls as needed.
- Obtaining Procedure Authorizations.
- Performing weekly Inventory.
- Attending special events.
Medical Assistant Skills and Qualities:
- Ability to demonstrate compassion and caring in dealing with others, patients and co-workers.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, understand instructions and procedures, and know when to seek information or advice.
- Proficient communication skills both written and verbal, bilingual a plus.
- Ability to work Monday through Friday. (no weekends unless a special event is scheduled, and those are voluntary).
- Ability to work well in a diverse fast paced workplace.
Experience and Education:
- High school diploma or GED required, RMA or Medical Assisting certificate a plus.
- At least one year employment experience as an MA in a specialty practice.
- At least one year experience obtaining and documenting patient vitals, and EMR experience.
- BLS Certification (can be provided).
- Experience performing injections and body contouring treatments or willingness to obtain on the job certifications for injections and body contouring.
- Experience assisting with surgical office procedures, or willingness to train on the job.
About Lumiere Cosmetic Vein Center, P.A.
We are a locally owned General & Vascular surgery practice located in Cape Coral, FL. Dr Cipriano has been practicing since 2010 and working to help patients in Cape Coral since 2017. The need for a Vein clinic in Cape Coral became apparent when patients he was seeing at the hospital had recurrent wound care needs and had difficulty getting to the next closest center in Fort Myers. This made their disease process recurrent and chronic. Helping prevent the worsening of Venous insufficiency and the complications that stem from it are what drives the day to day practice with over 90% of our patients being evaluated and treated for this. We are a tight knit group and help each other and have a more relaxed atmosphere with the ability to be flexible with our schedule.