Leominster, MA30+ days ago
Complete Clinical Administrative work which includes documents as assigned to MA per Provider needs, this includes but is not limited to: DME CMN's, Recertification prescriptions, medication refill requests, medication prior authorization requests, utility letters, housing letters, jury duty letters, handicap applications, PT 1 forms, FMLA/Disability forms; processes new orders for nebs, O2, CPAP, BIPAP, ASV, NIV, and other durable medical equipment; schedules referrals to outgoing providers (allergy, oncology, thoracic surgery, ENT etc); schedules procedures in local hospitals (bronchoscopy, CT guided biopsy, thoracentesis, pleurx cath placements etc) in addition to calling the patients to provide instructions to the procedure and processing the paperwork and applying for authorization if needed; call patients as directed by providers to relay results and other information; handle phone calls from patients regarding their concerns and appropriately document information to return to the provider; assist in hospital admissions. Clinical duties following the patient evaluation as recommended by the provider include (in addition initial medical screening #4.) teaching patients the proper use of inhalers, nebs, and other durable medical equipment, oximetry trending, alpha 1 testing, dispensing samples, administering immunizations, ordering labs and diagnostic imaging, administering neb treatments, transporting patients, triaging sick calls and walk in patients, performing office spirometry and Feno if available, and administering PPD.