Position Overview
Summary The incumbent serves as an Advanced Medical Support Assistant in the Primary Care/Subspecialty Medicine service line at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Responsibilities Duties of this position are, but not limited to: Customer service: greets and check-in patients, assists patient with mobile check-in if needed; gathers medical information if needed; refers patients to the appropriate member of the health care team as needed; reports backlogs, difficulties in meeting deadlines, and uncooperative physicians; documents complaints; ability to identify customer's concerns, performs the tasks required to resolve the issues accurately and timely, and follow up as necessary to ensure a satisfactory resolution; resolves difficult problems and diffuses potential dissatisfaction with VA services. Performs receptionist duties: monitors copying and faxing; answers and routes incoming phone calls. Maintains medical charts: generates patient workload reports and monitors activity; ser...